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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 again receives most applications in UC system from state’s high school seniors

Campus is also top choice for first-generation, low-income and minority 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’

UCI professor of education receives grant to improve computer science teaching practices

Mark Warschauer, professor of education, has been awarded a five-year, $4 million Education Innovation and Research grant by the U.S. Department of Education to improve computer science teaching practices for English learners. Project partners are the Santa Ana and San Francisco unified school districts and Chicago Public Schools. “The field of computer science has not […]

History and African American studies faculty receive three-year UC-HBCU Pathways Grant

Jessica Millward, UCI associate professor of history, and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, UCI associate professor of African American studies, have received a three-year, $271,902 UC-HBCU Pathways Grant to partner with Morgan State University, a public and historically black research university in Baltimore. Administered by the UC Office of the President, the grants encourage UC faculty to actively […]

Family medicine turns 50

Gala marks anniversary, evolution of UCI department, only the second established in the state

David Liu, a Ph.D. student in UCI’s School of Education, stands in front of El Sol Science and Arts Academy of Santa Ana.

Pathway to a Ph.D.

Doctoral candidate David Liu faces the final hurdle: the dreaded dissertation defense

The power of partnership

UCI trustee, professor work together to promote diversity in engineering

UCI senior Alyssa Carrillo

Set on science

For future biomedical researcher, undergraduate scholarship was vote of confidence