A physician-scholar first
UCI grad student Sarah O’Dell is pursuing both an M.D. and a doctorate in the humanities
April 26, 2019
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UCI’s Margherita Long is 1 of only 8 awarded UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowships
Margherita Long, associate professor of East Asian studies, has earned a UC President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2019-20. One of only eight recipients across the University of California system, she will use the $30,000 in support of her book project, Care, Affect, Crackup: Literature & Activism After Fukushima, which takes an environmental humanities approach to […]
April 23, 2019
UCI co-leads project adding 11,400 intra-American journeys to Slave Voyages database
Scholarly reach and public impact of highly utilized humanities resource are expanded
March 19, 2019
Textbook on Chinese poetry by UCI professor of East Asian studies awarded Buchanan Prize
An Introduction to Chinese Poetry: From the Canon of Poetry to the Lyrics of the Song Dynasty, by UCI professor of East Asian studies Michael A. Fuller, has won the Association for Asian Studies’ Franklin R. Buchanan Prize for high-quality curriculum materials on Asia. “I am deeply honored that the AAS has given my textbook […]
February 04, 2019
Confronting climate change
Interdisciplinary experts convened on campus for two-day public conference on looming existential threat
February 01, 2019
Keeping a language alive
New classes aim to revive endangered dialect of Western Armenia
December 03, 2018
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund yearlong series exploring human suffering
The newly formed UCI Center for Medical Humanities – a formal partnership among the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, the School of Humanities and the School of Medicine – has received a $225,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to create a yearlong series called “Suffer Well” that will offer lectures, symposia and […]
October 19, 2018
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
Former dean of the School of Humanities is named president of The Huntington Library
Karen Lawrence, UCI professor emerita of English and former dean of the School of Humanities (1998-2007), has been named president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens in San Marino, effective Sept. 1. “We are thrilled that Karen has received this appointment,” said Tyrus Miller, current dean of the School of Humanities. “Her […]
July 30, 2018
Cross-pollinating the future
New dean believes interdisciplinary humanities are key to addressing complex contemporary problems
July 16, 2018