UCI receives record $441 million in research funding for fiscal 2018-19
22 percent more than last year, the total reflects strong support for campus mission
August 06, 2019
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In honor of the Beall family's support, the campus's entrepreneurial and innovation platform to be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation
Irvine, Calif., May 23, 2019 — The University of California, Irvine has received a multimillion-dollar gift from The Beall Family Foundation, led by Donald R. and Joan F. Beall. The largest portion of the gift will go to the campus’s entrepreneurial and innovation platform, UCI Applied Innovation, which will be renamed UCI Beall Applied Innovation. […]
May 23, 2019
Foundation gives UCI institute $1.4 million gift to study the security of the 'internet of things'
UCI’s Cybersecurity Policy & Research Institute has received $1.4 million from the Herman P. & Sophia Taubman Foundation to explore emerging threats to the “internet of things,” the vast global network connecting billions of computers, devices, machines and sensors. With everything from voice-prompted apps controlling lighting, heat and appliances in homes to sophisticated factory automation […]
March 28, 2019
School of Law founding dean donates personal, professional papers to UCI Libraries
Collection details Erwin Chemerinsky’s illustrious 40-year legal career
March 01, 2019
Anneeth Kaur Hundle appointed to UCI endowed chair in Sikh studies
Faculty position established with $1.5 million gift from Drs. Harvinder and Asha Sahota
January 30, 2019
$2 million from Pacific Life will support UCI's LIFEvest financial literacy program for teens
The Paul Merage School of Business Center for Investment & Wealth Management’s residential financial literacy program for teens, LIFEvest, has received a $2 million gift from the Pacific Life Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the Newport Beach-based insurance company. During the weeklong LIFEvest summer program, local eighth- and ninth-graders from underserved communities have the opportunity […]
January 29, 2019
Alumnus donates $250,000 to business school
Gregory Lai, MBA ’88, has made his largest donation ever to UCI’s Paul Merage School of Business. The $250,000 Greg and Cindy Lai Endowed Undergraduate Student Award will support Merage students. “I believe that the Merage School is at another inflection point and in the next decade or so will break into the top 20 […]
January 09, 2019
Holiday gifts, Anteater-style
Our 2018 guide can help you shop for everyone on your list
November 30, 2018
Professor emerita of history makes legacy gift to fund chair in pre-modern Japanese studies
Anne Walthall, UCI professor emerita of history, has arranged a legacy gift of $2 million, through her estate, to fund an endowed chair in pre-modern Japanese studies. At the turn of the 17th century, Japan began a peaceful period of 250 years of restricted international interaction, allowing the country’s culture to flourish. Artistic achievements considered […]
September 14, 2018
UCI garners half billion dollars in philanthropic, research funding in 2017-18
Grants and gifts will support lifesaving research, world-class arts and academic excellence
September 13, 2018