UCI’s Anastasia Shuba won the Andreas Pfitzmann Best Student Paper Award at the 2018 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium, held in Barcelona, Spain, in July. Her manuscript, “NoMoAds: Effective & Efficient Cross-App Mobile Ad-Blocking,” was selected based on “scientific quality and expected impact on the field.” The paper describes a technology to prevent pop-up advertisements from […]
Hawaii native ventures to mainland in hopes of making island history mainstream
Six UCI anthropology Ph.D. students have been awarded a total of $109,777 from the Wenner-Gren Foundation to pursue social and cultural fieldwork at various sites around the globe. The recipients are: Kyrstin Mallon Andrews, Elizabeth Hanna Clark Rubio, Oviya Govindan, Angela Okune, Ann Kathryn Wilkinson and Jennifer Zelnick. “These anthropology graduate students are conducting research […]
Donation will support graduate student research, scholarship in social sciences
Frances Leslie, vice provost and dean for graduate studies at UCI, has been selected to receive the prestigious 2018 Lifetime Legacy Award from Orange County Connected Women of Influence. The award recognizes women who have demonstrated superior leadership over several years and who have a significant track record of long-term achievements in their field. Leslie […]
Based on fictional dinosaurs and squid, technology could protect soldiers and structures
7 fields of advanced study place in top 10 among public universities on annual list