Dear colleagues,

I look forward to celebrating the achievements of our students at the upcoming commencement ceremonies.
I hope that you will have a chance to join in congratulating the class of 2024, which includes more than 11,000 students.

Spring brings warmer weather, and faculty awards! Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe was elected to the National Academy of Sciences and Roxane Cohen Silver was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. In addition, Wang Feng and Gene Tsudik were awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships and four UCI researchers were named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. You can read more about these and other recent campus accolades and research highlights below.

As we move toward the end of the academic year, I would like to take this opportunity to extend gratitude to our faculty and staff for all that you do. Your dedication to UCI and our students is appreciated, and I hope that you have a restorative and productive summer.

Hal Stern
Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Chancellor's Professor, Statistics

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe Elected to the National Academy of Sciences

Adriana Darielle Mejía Briscoe, Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Known for her work on the sensory ecology of butterflies, Professor Briscoe's lab uses butterflies to examine how color vision mediates ecological interactions between butterflies, host plants, and the environment in the context of mimicry and species recognition. Professor Briscoe conducts field and laboratory research that spans genetics, physiology, and behavior to further our understanding of butterflies' visual and temperature adaptations to climate change. UCI now has 24 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Roxane Cohen Silver Elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Roxane Cohen Silver, Vice Provost, Institutional Research, Assessment, and Planning, and Distinguished Professor of Psychological Science, Medicine, and Public Health, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. An international expert in the field of stress and coping, Professor Silver has spent over four decades studying acute and long-term psychological and physical reactions to stressful life experiences, including personal traumas such as loss, physical disability, and childhood sexual victimization, as well as larger collective events such as mass violence, infectious disease outbreaks, and natural disasters. UCI now has 38 members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Wang Feng and Gene Tsudik Awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships

Wang Feng Gene Tsudik

Wang Feng, Professor, Department of Sociology, and Gene Tsudik, Distinguished Professor, Department of Computer Science, have been awarded 2024 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowships. Professors Wang and Tsudik join 186 other American and Canadian scientists and scholars receiving the prestigious grants this year. UCI now has 60 Guggenheim Fellows from various backgrounds and fields of study.

Four Honored as Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Four UC Irvine researchers have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society. With this cohort, UCI now has 207 AAAS fellows.

Latino Excellence and Achievement Dinner Celebrates UCI Community Leaders

The 2024 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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