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philanthropy

$1 million endowment aspires to build musical bridges

Gift from Jong Sup Kim Family Endowment will support the music department

Diego Pizzagalli, head of UC Irvine’s Noel Drury, M.D. Institute for Translational Depression Discoveries.

Demystifying depression

Founding director of collaborative research institute is eager to make a difference

Third-year microbiology and immunology student Ritwik Kumar researches bacteriophages—viruses that infect bacteria, not human cells.

An antibiotic alternative

In first at UC Irvine, undergrad will use bacteriophages to treat patients with resistant infections

Left to right: Anne Marie Clemons-Thomas, V. Gordon Clemons Jr., M.B.A. ’04, and Marie Clemons stand in front of the Falling Leaves Foundation Medical Innovation Building, which will feature a terrace named after their family foundation.

Clemons Family Foundation donates $11 million to support advanced cancer research

Gift will also aid medical innovation building construction and UCI Health – Irvine

UCI Health’s Dr. Maheswari Senthil (left) and Dr. Farshid Dayyani

Answers for cancers

Annual campus fundraiser supports promising studies, including Stopgap trial

UC Irvine Chancellor Howard Gillman standing at a podium with a UCI Brilliant Future sign on the front.

UC Irvine’s Brilliant Future campaign surpasses $2 billion goal ahead of schedule

Setting a historic milestone for Orange County, effort continues till October 2025

Steve Borowski ’79 (center) is flanked by (from left) daughter Kelsey, daughter Kimberley, Kim’s dog Scout, granddaughter Harper, wife Linda, grandson Colton, daughter Christie, granddaughter Kate, granddaughter Kinley and son-in-law Justin.

$5 million gift from alumnus and wife to transform future of UC Irvine baseball

Support will create state-of-the-art Borowski Family Player Development Center

Alec Glasser

OC philanthropist and businessman’s donation supports visionary School of Social Ecology initiative

Gift ensures future of Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change

Alec Glasser, here speaking with a few of the Glasser Scholars during a recent meeting at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Scaling social solutions

Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change empowers individuals and communities

Giovanna Mancinelli

Preventing bad experiences with digital goods

Endowment award helps Giovanna Mancinelli serve as technology user advocate