UC admits largest, most diverse class ever, but it was harder to get accepted By TERESA WATANABE | STAFF WRITER JULY 19, 2021 9:23 AM PT UC Irvine made the largest year-to-year gains in diversity, increasing the share of underrepresented students to 41% of Californians offered freshman seats from 29% last year. Among them, the share of [...]
Seven faculty members named 2021-22 Hellman Fellows June 23, 2021 L to R: Adriana Villavicencio, Adeyemi Adeleye, Vibhuti Ramachandran, Celia Symons, Judit Romhanyi, Swethaa S. Ballakrishnen, Christopher Seeds Seven assistant professors at UCI will receive $50,000 Hellman Fellowships, which are bestowed annually to support research by junior faculty. They join an elite group [...]
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship Recipients Meet Our 2021 Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship Recipients The Eugene Cota-Robles (ECR) Fellowship is the most prestigious diversity fellowship offered at UC Irvine. This award is used to release recipients from employment or loan obligations that might delay progress in graduate study. The fellowship is designed to place students interested [...]
American Council of Learned Societies F'21 Fellow - Salvador E. Zarate Assistant Professor Anthropology University of California, Irvine ACLS Fellowship Program 2021 Assistant Professor Anthropology University of California, Irvine Weed Abatement: Immigrant Workers and Fire Prevention in Orange County Orange County, like Los Angeles County to the north, is a region historically prone to wildfire. [...]
Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award About the IDEA Award The ASN/SSE/SSB Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award was created in 2019 by the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), the Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB). The IDEA Award is given to a person at any career stage who has strengthened the ecology [...]
Dear colleagues, On behalf of Chancellor Gillman, we are pleased to announce that Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been awarded a 2021 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Appointed on the basis of prior achievement and exceptional promise, she was chosen through a rigorous peer-review process from almost 3,000 [...]
Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards recognizes Hispanic and Latinx graduate students UCI News | April 2, 2021 The 2021 Latinx Excellence and Achievement Awards took place April 1 as a virtual gala. In its fourth year, UCI’s LEAD remains the only celebration and awards event in the University of California system focused on Hispanic and Latinx graduate [...]
Congratulations Eloy Ortiz Oakley! 2021 Recipient of the Diverse Champions Award Diverse will honor Mr. Oakley with a special career tribute in our April 1, 2021 edition. Please join us and many other institutions, organizations, and colleagues in this recognition of his career achievements by placing a congratulatory/celebratory message. Your message can be placed in print, online [...]
Honoring the Legacy of José Flores Velázquez Donate to the Graduate Division Fellowship Fund UCI is honoring José Flores Velázquez, a former UCI Physics & Astronomy PhD student who tragically passed away on August 14, 2019 due to a drive-by shooting near his family home in Los Angeles, California. José was an academic super star [...]
Ensuring college access for first-gen students Regent and UCI alumnus Eloy Ortiz Oakley discusses his first-gen journey Social Ecology alumnus Eloy Ortiz Oakley M.A.'96, MBA '99,photo: steve zylius/UCI Eloy Ortiz Oakley’s parents didn’t go to college, but today the UCI graduate (BA ‘96, MBA ‘99) leads the largest higher education [...]