Douglas Haynes, vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion

UCI launches Black Thriving Initiative

Institutional transformation strives to promote Black well-being and success

Shohreh Bozorgmehri, director of student and academic services in UCI’s Office of Information Technology

Group is established to connect, inspire and empower UCI women in technology

Organization will strengthen community and focus on diversity, equality and inclusion

Fariborz Maseeh, founder of the Massiah Foundation

Massiah Foundation challenge gift to fund UCI chair in Zoroastrian studies

$1.5 million endowment will establish first chair of its kind in the U.S.

Nancy Rodriguez, UCI professor of criminology, law & society and principal investigator

$2.7 million gift by Arnold Ventures to UCI funds most comprehensive prison violence study to date

Unique multi-strategy approach will identify evidence-based reduction, prevention policies

UCI 2020-21 Hellman Fellows from left to right: J. Zoe Klemfuss, Jenna Riis, Lindsay Gilmour, Sameer Singh, Elizabeth Bess.

Five UCI junior faculty named Hellman Fellows for 2020-21

Assistant professors in chemistry, computer science, dance and psychological science awarded grants to support research, scholarly work

Foundation donates $1 million to UCI's Henry Samueli School of Engineering

Gift establishes research institute for sustainable development of materials

UCI receives $1.5 million from philanthropist Roy Eddleman

Gift will fund research institute devoted to quantum science

Healthcare worker attending to hospital patient.

Tu Foundation gives $2.5 million to UCI to support COVID-19 patient care, research

Funding allows campus to ramp up lifesaving treatments, testing and discoveries

Family medicine turns 50

Gala marks anniversary, evolution of UCI department, only the second established in the state

Andrea Kristell Medrano is a first-gen third-year student who won the Hannah J. Caldwell Endowed Student Award for Undergraduate Studies and the Humanities Associates Endowment for the International Center for Writing and Translation award.

Bilingual booster

First-gen senior majoring in both education sciences and Spanish hopes to become an academic counselor in low-income communities