Horiba Group commits $9 million to UCI for new institute
Research to focus on better connectivity between transportation and energy sectors
August 29, 2018
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gifts
UCI chemistry professor, wife fund $100,000 endowment for Armenian studies research
Ara Apkarian, UCI Distinguished Professor of chemistry, and his wife, Alice, a retired Saddleback College chemistry professor, recently funded a $100,000 endowment, the Naneh Award for Graduate Research in Armenian Studies. Named in honor of their daughter, a postdoctoral researcher at Western Michigan University, this is the second significant gift the couple has bestowed on […]
August 23, 2018
Paul Merage School of Business receives gift for endowed fund at the Center for Real Estate
The Paul Merage School of Business has received a $100,000 gift from the Bixby Land Co. to support the creation of a new endowed fund at the Center for Real Estate. The Bill Halford Family & Bixby Land Co. Student Award will provide merit-based monetary assistance to graduate or undergraduate students who have demonstrated a […]
August 01, 2018
UCI School of Education will launch regional K-12 Teacher Academy with $300,000 gift
In celebration of National Teacher Appreciation Day on May 8, the School of Education announced a $300,000 gift from SchoolsFirst Federal Credit Union to launch a K-12 professional development Teacher Academy that will benefit thousands of Southern California educators and the students they serve. “The Teacher Academy is envisioned as a national model for state-of-the-art […]
May 09, 2018
UCI receives $2.4 million gift from estate of former faculty member Christian Werner
Donation will support graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences
April 25, 2018
School of Social Ecology receives $1 million from estate of founding faculty member
Gift endows Carol Kupers Whalen Fund, which supports students and faculty research
April 25, 2018
UCI receives second $1 million estate gift from former faculty member Christian Werner
Donation supports graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences
September 14, 2017
With NSF funding, UCI economist conducts lab experiments on outcomes of monetary policies
John Duffy, professor of economics and co-director of the Experimental Social Sciences Laboratory, has received a $79,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to study the impact of different monetary policies on economic activity and inflation. The study relies on a model of economic interactions that he’ll run over the computer network in the ESSL, using UCI […]
December 15, 2016
Cylance Inc. gift to support activities of Center for Machine Learning & Intelligent Systems
Irvine-based Cylance Inc. has donated $50,000 to computer science professors Alex Ihler and Padhraic Smyth to support the activities of UCI’s Center for Machine Learning & Intelligent Systems. The funds will be used to draw distinguished speakers to campus for the center’s weekly seminar series and to recruit Ph.D. students in machine learning. Founded in 2012, Cylance develops cybersecurity software employing […]
December 14, 2016
By the numbers: 1.1 billion reasons to feel good about 2016
It was a year of firsts … and a year of records
December 13, 2016