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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.

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Honoring Jewish Heritage in May 2022 ♥

Dear campus community, I invite you to celebrate and learn about the Jewish culture during May 2022. First established as Jewish American Week in 1980, and later officially named in the United States by President George W. Bush as Jewish Heritage Month in 2006, this time allows us all to learn about the valuable contributions and current issues affecting Jewish people across the globe. Findings from a 2020 Orange County Hate Crime report that there was a disturbing 114% rise in anti-Semitic hate incidents and that 11% of hate crimes were motivated by anti-Semitism further underscores our need to come…

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Celebrate Asian American, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander Heritage Month – May 2022 ♥

Dear campus community, May is traditionally the month in the United States when we recognize the contributions of our community members through Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Heritage month. This celebration of the contributions of individuals identifying from these important cultural groups also affords us opportunities to learn and study about new intersections for advocacy and activism to end the worrisome rise of anti-Asian harassment and racism that threatens the safety and thriving for all community members, not just those from the specific racial and ethnic groups being honored this month. The Federal Asian Pacific American Council, whose representatives…

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AAAS members

UCI NEWS | Four professors elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ★

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Dean Tiffany Lopez

UCI NEWS | Tiffany Lopez is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts ♥

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UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program

UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program Second Call for Proposals Outcome

Dear colleagues, I am pleased to announce the outcome of the 2021-22 call for proposals for the UCI Black Thriving Initiative Faculty Cluster Hiring Program. The program is a competitive two-year effort to recruit faculty who interrogate structural racism in its myriad forms. As part of the UCI Black Thriving Initiative, the program aims to build on the hiring priorities of academic units; pave new paths for research and creative expression, teaching and learning, and community engagement; and manifest our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion in research, teaching and service. The second call for proposals received a total of…

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Natascha Trellinger Buswell and Brian Sato

UCI NEWS | UCI and 3 other UC campuses collaborate on teaching professor diversity initiative ★

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New York Times

THE NEW YORK TIMES | A Coach’s Homophobic Taunt Forces Him to Reconsider the Weight of Words ♥

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Professor Iryna Zenyuk

UCI NEWS | Helping her homeland, UCI engineer starts program to offer sanctuary here to scientists and academics from war-torn Ukraine ♥ ★

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Professors Farzad Naeim and Julie Schoenung

SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING | National Academy of Engineering Names Two UCI Professors as New Members ★

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Women's History Month

2022 Women’s History Month

Dear campus community, The recent nomination of federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the nation’s highest court and the 2021 election of Michelle Wu as mayor of Boston remind us of the importance of celebrating Women’s History month. Originating in a week-long celebration hosted in Sonoma, California in 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed March Women’s History month in 1980. Ketanji Brown Jackson is the first Black woman to be nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in its 232-year history. Mayor Wu is the first Asian American woman elected to lead one of the oldest municipalities in the country. The historic…

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