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Brilliant Future

tacey Nicholas, UCI trustee

Stacey Nicholas donates $5 million to UCI in support of diversity and inclusiveness

Gift will aid recruitment, retention, graduation of underrepresented STEM students

UCI junior Jocelyne Munoz,

Finding herself – and a mission

Donor-funded scholarships help first-generation student ‘become a well-rounded individual who can speak from multiple perspectives’

Loan Le, a UCI senior in pharmaceutical sciences.

Seeking to serve the poor

Aided by scholarship, transfer student prepares to ‘bring a better quality of healthcare to underserved populations’

Joan Irvine Smith passes away

Philanthropist played central role in UCI’s founding, growth

Carol Choi ’85 and Eugene Choi ’86, MBA ’01 – recipients of UCI’s 2020 Extraordinarius award

Alumni couple Carol and Eugene Choi to receive UCI’s Extraordinarius award

Entrepreneur-philanthropists will be among 22 honorees at 50th Lauds & Laurels event

Louise Nicole Ives

Committed to community

Scholarship support helped recent UCI graduate prepare for life of service

UCI chemist to lead Sloan Foundation-funded project to remove CO2 from emissions and air

Jenny Yang, UCI associate professor of chemistry, will use a $1.5 million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to help develop methods for the capture and removal of carbon dioxide from flue gases emitted by fossil fuel plants and from air. The funding will support an interdisciplinary team – led by Yang – from […]

Nevin Graduate Endowment Fellowship recipient Leah Sanchez

From art to anthropology

By following her passions, Ph.D. student Leah Sanchez finds her academic niche

UCI alumna pledges $1.5 million in legacy giving to Paul Merage School of Business

Kristen Monson has pledged $1.5 million in legacy giving, bringing her campaign commitment to The Paul Merage School of Business to more than $3 million. She’s the double UCI alumna – with a bachelor’s degree in economics (’82) and an MBA (’86) – for whom the third-floor terrace of the business school building is named. […]

The Anteater butterfly effect

‘Small token of appreciation’ leads to surprise gifts for new UCI medical students