Dear colleagues,
As the academic year finishes, I would like to thank all of you for the support you have provided to our students, especially the class of 2023. I hope that you will have a chance to congratulate these students, their friends, and their families as they celebrate during the commencement season.
Several members of our faculty have been recognized for their scholarly contributions recently. Distinguished Professor Leo Chavez has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, and Professors Roland Betancourt and Héctor Tobar have been named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows. These are outstanding recognitions of these individuals and of the quality of research occurring in our community. You can read more about these recognitions, other recent accolades, and research highlights below.
It seems that each year brings new challenges. I would like to express my gratitude to our faculty and staff for their continued efforts while also managing the impacts of the campus budget deficit and recent labor agreements. Your dedication to UCI and our students is both recognized and appreciated. I wish you all a restful and productive summer.
Hal Stern
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Chancellor's Professor, Statistics
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Leo Chavez Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Leo Chavez, Distinguished Professor, Department of Anthropology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Professor Chavez joined UCI in 1987 and helped build many of the institutional structures that are central to UCI's identity as a minority-thriving institution, including UCI's Department of Chicano/Latino studies. UCI now has 39 members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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Roland Betancourt and Héctor Tobar Awarded 2023 Guggenheim Fellowships
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Roland Betancourt, Professor of Art History, and Héctor Tobar, Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies and English, have been awarded 2023 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. Professors Betancourt and Tobar join 171 other American and Canadian scientists and scholars in the social sciences and humanities, as well as writers and artists of all kinds, in receiving these prestigious grants. With these two new awards, UCI now has 58 Guggenheim Fellows.
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Eight Junior Faculty Members Named 2023-24 Hellman Fellows
UCI's 2023-24 Hellman Fellows are (top row, from left) Diu-Huong Nguyen, Nicole Iturriaga, Cyrian Reed and Christopher Miles, as well as (bottom row, from left) Stacy Copp, Salvador Zárate, Herdeline Ardoña and Alexandra Voloshina.
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All UCI employees are invited to attend the Staff Service Awards at the Bren Events Center from 9-11 a.m. on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. Guest speakers include Chancellor Howard Gillman and Chad T. Lefteris, CEO, UCI Health.
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Latino Excellence and Achievement Dinner Celebrates UCI Community Leaders
The 2023 Latino Excellence and Achievement Awards Dinner honored key leaders, graduate students, staff and faculty who support and champion student success and research excellence in the Hispanic and Latino/a community at UCI and in Orange County.
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New DTEI Programs Foster Faculty Learning Communities
The Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation (DTEI) has created several programs and initiatives that offer community-building opportunities to connect over instructional best practices, classroom design and more.
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Student Excellence Center Unveils Dedication Plaque
The UCI Student Excellence Center (SEC) recently unveiled a dedication plaque to commemorate the partnership between UCI Libraries and the Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning that brought the SEC to life.
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Save the date for the first-ever UCI Teach Day on September 22, 2023. Teach Day will enable faculty, staff and students to gather prior to the start of the 2023-24 academic year and participate in an all-day event focused on pedagogical innovation, instructional best practices and teaching excellence.
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