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Young-Suk Kim, UCI professor of education, has been awarded a $1.4 million, four-year grant from the Institute of Education Sciences to explore children’s Spanish-English language transfer skills. “In kindergarten through 12th grade, English learners are the fastest-growing student population,” Kim said. “This study will systematically investigate how children’s first-language skills are related to their second-language […]

Annie McClanahan, assistant professor of English, has received the 2017 Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present book prize. Dead Pledges: Debt, Crisis & Twenty-First-Century Culture (Stanford University Press, 2016) explores the ways that U.S. culture — from novels and poems to photojournalism and horror movies — has responded to the financial […]

English professor Amy Gerstler is a finalist for the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, which bestows $100,000 on a midcareer poet. Gerstler, who teaches in UCI’s M.F.A. Programs in Writing, is one of five contenders for the prize. Her works of poetry, nonfiction and journalism have appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review and The American Poetry Review. Gerstler’s most recent book, Scattered at Sea, was longlisted for […]

UC Irvine’s School of Education has received a $300,000 gift from AT&T to support its recent $11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education for a project to improve the literacy skills of English learners.

Andrea Henderson, whose scholarly interests center on 18th and 19th century literature, visual art and science, is one of six UC faculty members so honored this year.

Myron Simon, a longtime English professor noted for his work in ethnic literature, died Monday, Aug. 18, at the age…

Oakley Hall, English professor emeritus at UC Irvine, passed away May 12 in Nevada City, Calif. The legendary author of critically-acclaimed works such as Warlock, Hall spent more than 20 years involved with UCI and the humanities community. As director of UCI’s Programs in Writing, he was instrumental in the development of the university’s renowned […]

UC Irvine could one day claim it helped discover the next Picasso and Shakespeare, thanks to a $828,219 grant to…

An Earth Day talk with Clean Energy Institute director Jack Brouwer

EVENT: The University of California, Irvine’s School of Humanities and Beall Applied Innovation will co-host AlphaPersuade: A Summit on Ethical AI. Join industry leaders and multidisciplinary academics from across the country for this one-day conference exploring the ethics of using artificial intelligence for persuasion. WHEN/WHERE: 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, at the Cove at […]