American Dream

Ballet and Bio Sci

Beyond her academic and performance commitments, Doan served as president of the Pro-Health Journal Club, which engages students in critical reading of scientific papers.

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Excellence in Academia: The Campuswide Honors Collegium

The 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:

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Investing in the Next Generation

The 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.”

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Small Fellowships Help Grad Student Make Big Waves in Beach Preservation

I’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.”

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Planting Seeds for the Future

“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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A Community Legacy

As 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.

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Finding her Voice

Trang Truong, who’s enrolled in the UC Irvine master’s entry program in nursing, received the 2023-24 Carol A. Pierson MEPN Student Scholarship, which she says alleviates some of the stress that comes with being a first-generation, low-income student.

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Fraction Ball Math Game Spreads with Help of Philanthropy

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.

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BioTech Entrepreneur Donates $50 Million to School of Biological Sciences

“This gift supports UC Irvine’s belief that human and environmental health are integrated and that well-being requires an evidence-based approach that engages all disciplines in the School of Biological Sciences,” said Chancellor Howard Gillman.

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The Sky’s the Limit

Third-year UC Irvine mechanical engineering student and scholarship recipient Ozzy Sanchez-Aldana dreams of working in NASA’s space exploration division.

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