A team of researchers from the UC Irvine School of Education, led by Assistant Professor Andres Bustamante, received a two-year, $1.9 million research award from the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund’s EF+Math Program to adapt the innovative math game Fraction Ball for the Santa Ana Unified School District.
Read MoreClean tech may be entrepreneur Anoosheh Oskouian’s professional passion, but keeping Persian culture alive in the U.S. is her personal joy. She recently made a $25,000 gift to UCI’s Samuel Jordan Center for Persian Studies and Culture.
Read MoreJosh Childress funded an endowed scholarship for students in the Black Management Association and the Center for Real Estate.
Read MoreAfter Flores-Velázquez died in a drive-by shooting near his home in 2019, his friends and faculty in the School of Physical Sciences came together to ensure his legacy continues to illuminate a path for future students.
Read MoreThe Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care at UCI Health – Irvine will offer adult and pediatric specialty care, urgent care, digestive health, neurosciences and comprehensive laboratory and radiology imaging services in one convenient location.
Read MoreKugelman Fellowships, created by Dulcie and Larry Kugelman, help UCI graduate students advance citizen peacebuilding worldwide.
Read More“I look at UCI as being a community. If you can, you need to give back to your community,” says professor emeritus Hung Fan who, with his husband Michael Feldman, made a bequest worth an estimated $1.5 million.
Read MoreBhumi Tandel, recipient of the Huitt-Zollars Scholarship, hopes to help improve the environment through engineering.
Read MoreWhen Maureen Chand Kotecki received the inaugural Elizabeth C. Tierney Nursing Scholarship, she appreciated the financial relief plus something else intangible yet just as invaluable: a sense of support and encouragement.
Read More“This gift provides a unique opportunity for UCI to establish a world-class research center focused on the area of depression, which is extremely important from a societal point of view,” says Pramod Khargonekar, vice chancellor for research.
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