Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o elected AAAS fellow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, has been named a 2014 fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Amy Wilentz wins 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award for Haiti memoir
Amy Wilentz, UC Irvine professor of English and literary journalism, has won a National Book Critics Circle Award for her autobiography Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti, a gritty memoir based on years of reporting from Haiti.
UCI professor receives $11 million grant from Department of Education
Carol Booth Olson, director of the UC Irvine Writing Project and associate professor of education, has received an $11 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand a reading and analytical writing intervention program for English-language learners to Southern California middle and high schools. The program will reach more than 100,000 students and 240 teachers in districts with predominantly low-income populations.
UCI Medal event honors recipients and helps students
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 7, 2013 — An annual UC Irvine gala celebrating recipients of the UCI Medal raised more than $1 million, which will provide benefits for students through the prestigious Chancellor’s Fund for Scholarships and Fellowships. More than 600 guests turned out Saturday, Oct. 5, for the 2013 UCI Medal Awards. One of Orange […]
Bridging the educational divide
Public Impact Fellow Binbin Zheng studies how low-cost classroom technology can help disadvantaged learners
Recreational reading
UCI faculty and staff share their summer book selections
Humanities duo named Dickson Emeriti Professors
Chancellor Michael Drake recently announced that history professor Keith Nelson and English professor J. Hillis Miller had been appointed Edward A. Dickson Emeriti Professors.
Giving back instead of kicking back
Service-minded UCI students spend the spring recess doing volunteer work
4 UCI students named Fulbright Scholars
Four UC Irvine students have been awarded highly coveted Fulbright grants to study abroad. Two will conduct public health research in Jordan; it’s the first time UC Irvine students have been placed in that country. Sponsored by the State Department, Fulbright is the largest international exchange program in the U.S. It funds one year of […]
2013 UCI Medalists are announced
UCI Medal honorees demonstrate pillars of excellence in academics, research, leadership and character.