Gary Singer

UCI Lauds & Laurels event will celebrate contributions of 19 prominent alumni

Gary Singer to receive Extraordinarius award for almost 40 years of exemplary service

Mathematician garners UCI alumni group’s Extraordinarius award

Lauds & Laurels, UC Irvine Alumni Association’s annual celebration, honors outstanding alumni, students, staff and faculty.

Newkirk Alumni Center

Building alumni support, brick by brick

Martha Newkirk, Ph.D. ’81 and her husband fund new center for former students.

Donation funds new Newkirk Alumni Center

Construction begins with groundbreaking. Center will open in fall 2012 to serve more than 140,000 former students.

Alumni Regent.

UCI’s Bruce Hallett ’78 will join University of California Regents July 1 as alumni representative.

Sir David MacMillan, who earned a doctorate in chemistry at UC Irvine in 1996, is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor of Chemistry at Princeton University.

Nobel laureate Sir David MacMillan, Ph.D. ’96, to receive Extraordinarius award

UC Irvine Alumni Association will honor 22 Anteaters at 53rd Lauds & Laurels event

Thomas Yuen

Lauds & Laurels to salute 18 campus heroes

Entrepreneur, philanthropist and community leader Thomas Yuen to receive UC Irvine Alumni Association’s premier honor.

Edward Thorp with two playing cards

Blackjack guru named Extraordinarius

Former math professor Edward Thorp will receive UCI Alumni Association’s top award May 16

2011 Lauds & Laurels recipients

Awards presented by UCI Alumni Association at May 12 ceremony.

Lauds & Laurels

The UCI Alumni Association announced that Julian Feldman, professor emeritus of information & computer sciences, will receive the Extraordinarius award at its 40th annual Lauds & Laurels ceremony May 13.