DECADE Mentors
DECADE Mentors are committed to fostering an inclusive environment within UCI's graduate programs to promote diversity within the graduate student population campuswide. They serve as a resource to graduate students and faculty alike, collaborating with Equity Advisors and UCI's Graduate Division to accomplish their program's goals. The DECADE Mentor Program is directed by Professor Sharon Block, Associate Vice Provost for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in the Office of Inclusive Excellence.
There are currently 41 DECADE Mentors campuswide.
DECADE Contact
For questions about the DECADE Mentor Program, please contact Associate Vice Provost Sharon Block (sblock@uci.edu).
Mentors
| School | Program | Name | Phone (949-824 area code/prefix unless stated) |
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| Claire Trevor School of the Arts | ||||
| Art | Monica Majoli | mmajoli@uci.edu | ||
| Dance | Tong Wang | wangt5@uci.edu | ||
| Drama | Juliette Carrillo | juliette.carrillo@uci.edu | 4-6132 | |
| Music | Nina Scolnik | nscolnik@uci.edu | ||
| School of Biological Sciences | ||||
| Cellular and Molecular Biosciences Program; Molecular Biology & Biochemistry | Katrine Whiteson | katrine@uci.edu | 4-9032 | |
| Developmental & Cell Biology | Scott Atwood | satwood@uci.edu | 4-4346 | |
| Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Donovan German | dgerman@uci.edu | 4-5368 | |
| Mathematical, Computational, and Systems Biology | TBD | |||
| Neurobiology & Behavior/Interdepartmental Neuroscience Program | Susana Cohen-Cory | scohenco@uci.edu | 4-8188 | |
| The Paul Merage School of Business | Schoolwide | Libby Weber | lweber@uci.edu | 4-9149 |
| School of Education | Schoolwide | Kylie Peppler | kpeppler@uci.edu | 4-4828 |
| The Henry Samueli School of Engineering | ||||
| Biomedical Engineering | Beth Lopour | beth.lopour@uci.edu | 4-5946 | |
| Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering | Tayloria Adams | tayloria@uci.edu | 4-6726 | |
| Civil & Environmental Engineering | Wenlong Jin | wjin@uci.edu | 4-1672 | |
| Electrical & Computer Engineering | Hung Cao | hungcao@uci.edu | 4-8478 | |
| Materials Science & Engineering | Tim Rupert | trupert@uci.edu | 4-4937 | |
| Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering | Haithem Taha | hetaha@uci.edu | 4-8148 | |
| School of Humanities (Pilot) | ||||
| Comparative Literature | Annie McClanahan | annie.mcc@uci.edu | ||
| Culture & Theory | James Lee | jim.lee@uci.edu | ||
| East Asian Studies | Jerry Lee | jwl@uci.edu | ||
| English | Annie McClanahan | annie.mcc@uci.edu | ||
| German | Jerry Lee | jwl@uci.edu | ||
| History | James Lee | jim.lee@uci.edu | ||
| Philosophy | Jerry Lee | jwl@uci.edu | ||
| Spanish & Portuguese | Jerry Lee | jwl@uci.edu | ||
| Visual Studies | James Lee | jim.lee@uci.edu | ||
| Black Studies Cluster | Annie McClanahan | annie.mcc@uci.edu | ||
| Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences | ||||
| Computer Science; Network Systems; Transportation Sciences | Sharad Mehrotra | sharad@ics.uci.edu | 4-5975 | |
| Informatics | Aaron Trammell | trammell@uci.edu | ||
| Statistics | Volodymyr Minin | vminin@uci.edu | 4-2390 | |
| College of Health Sciences | ||||
| School of Medicine | Anatomy, Biological Chemistry, Experimental Pathology, Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, Neurobiology, Physiology and Biophysics | Kevin Beier | kbeier@uci.edu | 4-1083 |
| Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing | Schoolwide | Sanghyuk Shin | ssshin2@uci.edu | 4-4734 |
| School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences | Schoolwide | Lauren Albrecht | l.albrecht@uci.edu | 4-9305 |
| Program in Public Health | Programwide | Andrea De Vizcaya Ruiz | adevizca@uci.edu | |
| School of Physical Sciences | ||||
| Chemistry | Joe Patterson | patters3@uci.edu | 529-6854 | |
| Earth System Science | Adam Martiny | amartiny@uci.edu | 4-9713 | |
| Mathematics | Alessandra Pantano | apantano@uci.edu | ||
| Physics & Astronomy | Simona Murgia | smurgia@uci.edu | 232-0360 | |
| School of Social Ecology | ||||
| Criminology, Law & Society | Amanda Geller | agellers@uci.edu | 4-0961 | |
| Psychological Science | Jason Schiffman | jason.schiffman@uci.edu | ||
| Urban Planning and Public Policy | Doug Houston | houston@uci.edu | 4-1870 | |
| School of Social Sciences | ||||
| Anthropology | Tom Boellstorff | tboellst@uci.edu | ||
| Cognitive Sciences; Language Science | Alyssa Brewer | aabrewer@uci.edu | 4-1501 | |
| Economics | Antonio Rodriguez-Lopez | jantonio@uci.edu | 4-5366 | |
| Global & International Studies | Long Bui | longb@uci.edu | ||
| Logic and Philosophy of Science | Jeremy Heis | jheis@uci.edu | 4-5442 | |
| Political Science | Claire Kim (Fall) ------------------- Cecelia Lynch (Winter/Spring) | cjkim@uci.edu ----------- clynch@uci.edu | 4-3192 ----------- 4-2745 |
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| Sociology | Ann Hironaka | hironaka@uci.edu | 4-6800 |