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We congratulate UCI faculty members Franklin Dollar and Chang Liu who have been selected as 2016 Sloan Fellows, a significant distinction for early career scientists. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced the awards on Feb. 23. Franklin Dollar, assistant professor in physics and astronomy, specializes in plasma physics, and is a member of the Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians. His lab studies the interaction of light at extremely high intensities with the fourth state of matter, plasma. There is a potential for these sources to have wide-reaching applications including medical physics and fusion energy, as well as the potential…

UCI Works to ADVANCE Women in Higher Education: Professor Judy Stepan-Norris and her co-author demonstrate that UCI out-performed other UC campuses in hiring women faculty during the study period (1993-2009). Professor Stepan-Norris shows that the Equity Advisor model together with greater transparency in the search process contributed to impressive hiring gains after 2001.

February 17, 2016 Dear Colleagues, I want to bring to your attention a new inclusive excellence resource entitled Guidelines for Addressing Race and Gender Equity in Academic Programs in Compliance with Proposition 209. (It is available at http://www.ucop.edu/general-counsel/guidance/enhancing-diversity-at-uc.html.) Produced by the University of California Office of the President, these guidelines broadly describe strategies for diversity programming that can be legally implemented to advance the University of California’s enduring commitment to inclusive excellence.  These strategies include: Programs that are targeted by race or gender but do not provide preferences or benefits not generally available to all. Programs that are not targeted…

Dear Colleagues, This February, we celebrate Black History Month, also known as National African American History Month. An annual celebration of achievements by black Americans, it is a time for recognizing the central role of African Americans in U.S. history. Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated the month of February as Black History Month, and other countries around the world, including Canada and the United Kingdom, also devote a month to celebrating black history. . . Read More

As of January 2016, African American studies has been established as a full-fledged department within the UCI School of Humanities, headed by Bridget Cooks, associate professor and director of the program, and now inaugural chair of the Department in African American Studies. UCI is now aligned with other UC campuses and national peer institutions with developed African American studies departments and establishes parity with related units at UCI that also began as interdisciplinary programs, including the departments of Asian American studies, Chicano/Latino studies, and gender and sexuality studies. For more information, go to: www.humanities.uci.edu/afam/program/index.php

Dalai Lama Scholar Mary Sargious spearheads a project pairing UCI mentors with foster and first-generation teens

UCI receives $1.1 million to help first-generation and low-income students