Business leader and philanthropist Jong Sup Kim views music as a universal language that bridges communities and enhances lives. With a $1 million gift, he aims to help the UC Irvine Department of Music at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts extend its impact, both locally and globally.
Read MoreCole teaches Miscarriages of Justice, a large lecture course with more than 100 students. Undergraduate students whose interest in criminology is piqued often sign up for his smaller course, a spring field study open to 40 students who work directly with the registry.
Read MoreThe UC Irvine Academic Senate introduced the Campuswide Honors Program in 1986 to attract and retain top-tier students to the university. The immediate goal was aspirational:
Read MoreThe Halbrooks’ gift allowed us to enhance our programming to be reflective of the maturation of UC Irvine as a Tier 1 university,” said Christopher G. Schwarz, Ph.D., CIWM faculty director and professor of finance. “Gifts to the center have increased since the renaming, and we are very grateful.”
Read MoreA significant donation from philanthropist and businessman Alec Glasser will allow the School of Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine to fully endow the Center for the Power of Music and Social Change, ensuring that it will continue to positively impact lives for generations to come.
Read More“We are profoundly grateful to the Clemons family for this remarkable gift. Their commitment to advancing cancer research and vision sciences will have a lasting impact on our community and far beyond.
Read MoreAs part of the Mapel family’s final wishes, an endowment of over $9.5 million was established through their estate, continuing support of pioneering research projects and establishing a new endowment to fund medical education scholarships for low-income students.
Read MoreI’m extremely thankful for those smaller scholarships because they gave me the opportunity to pursue research that makes a difference in our community, and they directly changed my life.”
Read More“I was considering not going to the university unless I received financial aid, because I didn’t have any money. But when UCI came through with a package to help out, that made all the difference in the world,” says alumnus Paul Butterworth ’74, M.S. ’81. “This is what inspired us to pledge support for students – so they can follow their dreams despite their financial situations.”
Read More“I feel like UCI is not just my place of employment or my alma mater; it’s literally where I’m raising my family. And that makes you think about it differently,” says Jessica Pratt, Ph.D. ’13.
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