Research Pillar

Cancer Researcher’s Career and Recent Gift Create a Legacy

“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.

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Brian Fargo, inXile Founder, Gives $1 Million to Advance Research for Tinnitus Treatment

Brian Fargo will match all donations one-on-one until $2 million is raised to fund the next phases of research and, ultimately, bring a device to market.

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Philanthropy Supports Transformative Partnerships with Orange County Schools

When a world-class School of Education, local K-12 teachers, principals, students and district administrators come together, great things happen.

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UCI Alumni and Friends Band Together During COVID-19

“This is about sharing in a time of need, whether you can give money or volunteer your time or help a neighbor with grocery shopping,” says Carol Choi ’85. “If everybody pitches in, we’ll all be better for it.”​

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Fellowship Helps UCI Student Focus on Research

“The final year of your Ph.D. program can be really intense… This fellowship allowed me to focus on my research.”

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Planned Estate Gift Honors Father’s Legacy

“We can’t thank Lisa enough for her gift. Her contribution will go a long way toward not only preserving her father’s legacy, but also keeping mentoring excellence as one of UCI’s top priorities for graduate education.”

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Engineering Their Legacy

Throughout their lives, Bob Altman and Michelle Sandler made annual gifts to a variety of causes, including Bob’s alma mater.

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Research to End Alzheimer’s

When his wife Judy passed away in 2014 from Alzheimer’s, Keith Swayne made a $150,000 challenge grant to UCI MIND, asking friends and neighbors to contribute, ultimately doubling his gift. The team at UCI MIND leveraged that seed money to secure a total of $20 million in funding from NIH, and establish a bank of induced pluripotent stem cells – created from human skin instead of embryos – that are used by investigators at UC Irvine and 10 other research universities around the world.

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