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Below you'll find our post category archive. Note that many titles will have , , and at the end of the text. These help identify pages, posts, and events representing our three core values: Community, Thriving, and Wellness. To learn more about this, read about our Action Plan. These also all help support our #ActForInclusion.
A Message from Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor Hal Stern | Frances Contreras Appointed as School of Education Dean ★
A first-generation college student, Professor Contreras will be the first Chicana/Latina dean to head a school of education in the University of California system.
UCI SPORTS | Villanueva Nominated for NCAA Woman of the Year Award ★
NCAA member schools across all three divisions nominated 535 female student-athletes for the 2021 Woman of the Year award. Of the 251 Division I nominees, Villanueva was one of eight from the Big West Conference.
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship Recipients
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 in careers in academic teaching and research on a fast-track towards completing their doctoral degree, and to increase the number of qualified candidates for faculty positions within the University of California. The Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship is named in honor of one of the earliest Mexican-American professors in…
Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship Recipients
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 in careers in academic teaching and research on a fast-track towards completing their doctoral degree, and to increase the number of qualified candidates for faculty positions within the University of California. The Eugene Cota-Robles Fellowship is named in honor of one of the earliest Mexican-American professors in…
UCI’s Salvador E. Zarate is named American Council of Learned Societies F’21 Fellow ★
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. In recent years, however, extended drought and escalating climate change has fueled the frequency, scale, and intensity of wildfires to a degree never before seen. “Weed Abatement” examines how Latino immigrant workers’ ecological labor prevents wildfires in Southern California. It draws on two years of ethnographic research with weed abatement crews to argue that weed abatement labor serves as an alternate ecological scientific…
Inclusiveness, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA) Award ★
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 and evolutionary biology community by promoting inclusiveness and diversity in our fields. The award can also be presented to a group. The recipient will receive a plaque at the annual meeting of ASN/SSB/SSE and a $1000 honorarium. Nominations are due in January of each year….
