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Winter 2021 Newsletter |
 Dear colleagues,
As we near the end of winter quarter, there are positive developments on the challenges we are facing. The state and county have indicated that university workers are now eligible for the coronavirus vaccine. Rollout is slow but the supply of vaccine is expected to increase over the course of the next month. Also, the Governor and legislature have reached an agreement to restore the UC budget to its pre-cut levels. This does not solve our budget concerns but it certainly eases them. I will share more information on both topics as it becomes available.
The winter newsletter provides an opportunity to recognize the inspiring achievements of our students, faculty and staff. Read below about the 2020-21 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards, as well as newly named National Academy of Inventors Fellow Charles Glabe, and three new IEEE Fellows.
In addition, you can learn about a new Getty Foundation grant to the Beall Center for Art + Technology to explore the intersectionality of art and science and about UCI's SEA Change Bronze Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science for our efforts to promote diversity, equity and inclusion.
Thank you for all that you do. Please stay safe.
Sincerely,
Hal S. Stern, Ph.D.
Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Chancellor's Professor, Statistics
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People
Inclusive Excellence
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Academic Excellence
Student Success
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Faculty Awards and Accolades
2020-21 Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards
Congratulations to the faculty members honored at the 2020-21 UCI Academic Senate Distinguished Faculty Awards. Michele Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law received the Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research and presented a lecture titled "75 Years After Nuremberg: Lessons in Equality and Justice for Law, Medicine, and Ethics."
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Michele Bratcher Goodwin
Chancellor's Professor of Law
Distinguished Senior Faculty Award for Research |
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Charles Glabe Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow
Charles Glabe, Distinguished Professor of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, was named a 2020 fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Professor Glabe is being recognized for the creation of antibodies that bind to the four kinds of proteins forming the amyloid associated with Alzheimer's disease. The process enables scientists to detect individual forms of the disease more precisely. The antibodies can be used as a screening tool and could help develop immunotherapies that slow or even prevent Alzheimer's. UCI now has 12 National Academy of Inventors fellows and a total of 908 issued U.S. patents.
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More Faculty Achievements
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Peter Burke, Athina Markopoulou and Sharad Mehrotra Named IEEE Fellows
Three UCI faculty have been named 2021 IEEE Fellows in recognition of their outstanding research achievements. Sharad Mehrotra, a professor of computer science in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, as well as Peter Burke and Athina Markopoulou, both professors of electrical engineering and computer science in the Samueli School of Engineering, are among the newly elected fellows, bringing to 19 the total number of active UCI faculty who are IEEE fellows.
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2021 Faculty Innovation Fellows
UCI Beall Applied Innovation welcomed 18 new Faculty Innovation Fellows in its 2021 cohort. Drawing from all schools and fields at UCI, the program promotes cross-collaboration and stimulates campus connections using UCI Beall Applied Innovation's resources. Below is the latest cohort that will serve from 2021 through 2022:
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Yama Akbari, Medicine
Shane Ardo, Physical Sciences
Kevin Beier, Medicine
Alex Borucki, Humanities
John Crawford, Arts
Hamid Djalilian, Medicine
Nia Dowell, Education
Holly Poe Durbin, Arts
Matthew Harding, Social Sciences
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Young Jik Kwon, Pharmacy &
Pharmaceutical Sciences
Mo Li, Engineering
Michael Oh, Medicine
Vincent Olivieri, Arts
Maksim Plikus, Biological Sciences
Kelli Sharp, Arts
Theresa Tanenbaum,
Information &
Computer Sciences
Raj Vyas, Medicine
Shawn Xiang, Medicine
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Did you know?
Beall Center for Art + Technology Awarded Grant from the Getty Foundation
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Spirit Awards Support Projects to Advance Inclusive Excellence at UCI
The below recipients will receive $5,000 each for their projects:
- Lee Bardwell – School of Biological Sciences – "UCI-HBCU Faculty Seminar Exchange"
- Tonya Bradford – Paul Merage School of Business – "Building Community through the Launch of the Merage School Black Management Association"
- Judith Kroll – School of Social Sciences – "Bilingualism Matters in California"
- Alessandra Pantano – School of Physical Sciences – "Leveraging the Cultural Capital of UCI Latinx Students to Transform a Mentoring Program for Underserved Kids in the Wake of a Global Pandemic"
- Zachary Price – Claire Trevor School of the Arts – "Black Arts and Black Publics – Start Up"
- Cyrian Reed – Claire Trevor School of the Arts – "The Moving Manuscript"
- Damien Sojoyner – School of Social Sciences – "Contested Truths: Archival Formations and the Carceral State"
- Jane Stoever – School of Law – "Teen Dating Violence Prevention: From the #MeToo Movement to Sustained Social Change"
- Candice Taylor Lucas – School of Medicine – "Work of HEArt (Health Equity & Art): Increasing Awareness about Black Maternal and Infant Health Disparities through Theatre and Reflection"
- Michael Yassa – Center for Neurobiology of Learning and Memory and School of Biological Sciences – "Training of Trainers' Facilitation for the End Racism Initiative"
Additional Inclusive Excellence News
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UCI Welcomes Newest Chancellor's Inclusive Excellence Awardees
Beginning in July, Jamelia Morgan will join the UCI School of Law as an assistant professor and Tiara R. Na'puti will join the department of Global and International Studies as an assistant professor. Visit the Inclusion website for more information. |
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Did you know?
Science Library Renovations Expand Study and Collaboration Space
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