2/2024
Professor Emeritus James N. Danziger
is named the 2023 UCIEA Outstanding Emeritus, honored at the UCIEA Executive Committee General Meeting.
1/2024
Professor Emerita Joan Pearce
discusses “How Rudeness Impacts Performance in the Workplace” on KABC.
1/2024
Chancellor’s Professor Emerita Gloria Mark
was interviewed on The “Ezra Klein Show,” a popular New York Times podcast, about her book Attention Span. In the conversation, Mark cites studies showing that, whereas most Americans in the 1960s through the 1980s spent roughly 30% of their day at their work desks, today, despite technological advances that supposedly make work more efficient, most workers spend 90% of their workday in front of a computer screen. “So, on the one hand, we might think it’s more efficient,” says Mark. “But there’s a cost to it. And the cost is our well-being. The cost is stress.” You can read a transcript of the interview or listen to the entire conversation.
6/2023
Professor Emerita Barbara Finlayson Pitts
received an honorary doctoral degree from McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada. Read more here.
4/2023
Professor Emeritus Raul Fernandez
is awarded the 2022-23 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award.
2/2022
Professor Emerita Sally Stein
is awarded the 2022 Dickson Professorship Award.
2/2022
Professor Emerita Margaret Miles
is awarded the 2022 Dickson Professorship Award.
10/2022
2022-2023 Graduate Dissertation Fellowship Awardees
Each year, the UCIEA presents two graduate students with
dissertation fellowship awards. Because of the gracious donations from our association members we provide each student with a $2500 award. Click here to donate to the Graduate Dissertation Fellowship.
School of Social Sciences
Behavior program, School of Biological
Sciences
7/2021
Professor Emerita Ellen Olshansky
is awarded the 2021 Dickson Professorship Award.
3/2021
Professor Emeritus Spence Olin
of History is awarded the 2020-21 Outstanding Emeritus Award by the UCI Emeriti Association.
5/2021
Professor Emeritus Luis Villarreal
founder of the Center for Virus Research, explains how the COVID-19 vaccine arrived with historic speed. Click here to watch the video.
2/2021
Professor Emeritus Dr. Frank Meyskens, MD
and Johanna Shapiro, MD have organized the 4th Annual Symposium of Hope and Healing. Dr. Meyskens spent his professional career as a Physician Scientist with translational clinical and basic laboratory research foci involving skin (especially melanoma), colorectal, and oral cancers. He is recognized nationally and internationally for his seminal contributions to the development of chemoprevention in the management of cancer and has received many awards for his work. For the past 20 years he has been active as a poet and published two books of poetry: “Aching for Tomorrow” (2007) and “Believing in Today” (2014) which deal with loss, healing, relationships, and caregiving using spare, concise, and deeply emotional verse. He was recognized in 2014 by the American Society of Clinical Oncology as Oncology’s Poet Laureate. He characterizes writing poetry as “breathing” not in ease, but as a fundamental necessity.
1/2021
Librarian Emerita Susan Lessick, AHIP, FMLA
and collaborators have been awarded a second prestigious Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Grant. The new grant ($227,862) will build upon and enhance the successful Research Training Institute for Health Sciences Librarians (previously funded by an IMLS grant) and transition the existing insti-tute research curriculum to online formats and offer two online institutes in 2021 and 2022.
10/2020
Professor Emeritus Prof. Robert Benny Gerber
of Chemistry, is awarded Israel Chemical Society‘s highest honor ICS Gold Medal.
Read more here.
7/2020
Professor Emerita Dr. Phyllis Agran
of School of Medicine – Pediatrics, is named Pediatrician of the Year by The American Academy of Pediatrics. Read more here.
5/2020
Professor Emerita Carrol Seron
of Criminology, Law and Society, is honored with the 2020 Legacy Award from The Law and Society Association. Read more here.
2/2020
Professor Emeritus Sid Golub
of the Department of Microbiology & Molecular Genetics has been named the recipient of the 2020 Clinical Translational Scientist Career Achievement Award. Read more here.
12/2019
Professor Emeritus Ken Baldwin
of the Department of Physiology & Biophysics a has been named the 2019 UCIEA Outstanding Emeritus/a. Since officially retiring, Dr. Baldwin has remained active as a member, continuing to enliven faculty meetings while being recalled to teach and extending his legacy of outstanding service, particularly to the space program.
6/2019
Professor Emerita Barbara Finlayson Pitts
has been awarded the Environment Prize by the Royal Society of Chemistry, the prestigious British learned society concerned with advancing chemistry as a science, developing its applications, and disseminating chemical knowledge. Professor Finlayson-Pitts was recognized “for outstanding contributions to the chemical sciences in the area of environment, sustainability and energy.” Read more here.
2/2019
Professor Emeritus Dan Stokols
The Society for Human Ecology has honored Dan Stokols with its Gerald L. Young Distinguished Scholarly Book Award for his 2018 tome, “Social Ecology in the Digital Age: Solving Complex Problems in a Globalized World” (London: Academic Press). Read more here.
1/2019
Professor Emeritus Gregory Benford
Science fiction author and professor emeritus of physics & astronomy at UCI, is the 2019 winner of the Heinlein Award, bestowed for outstanding published works in science fiction and technical writings that inspire the human exploration of space.. Read more here.
1/2019
Professor Emeritus Karl Hufbauer
In 2000, a year after retiring as a history professor, Karl took a stone-sculpting class. This was enough to make an enthusiast of him. Until his retirement from sculpting in 2015, he completed about two hundred pieces. While he carved a few from soapstone and alabaster and more from marble, he shaped most from harder stones such as granite, basalt, rhyolite, dunite, gneiss, schist, and quartzite. Read more here.
12/2018
Distinguished Professor Emeritus Don Saari
of Economics, has been elected a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The honor, which was accompanied with an honorary doctorate, was bestowed upon the retired professor at a November ceremony in Moscow. Read more here.
11/2018
Professor Emeritus Zachary Fisk
of Physics & Astronomy, has been named as one of the fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for pioneering scientific discoveries regarding the magnetic and transport properties of important magnetic and superconducting materials, including heavy fermion compounds and high-temperature superconducting cuprates. Read more here.
11/2018
Professor Emeritus Stephen White
of Physiology & Biophysics, has been named as one of the fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science for distinguished contributions to the understanding of cell membrane biophysics, particularly the structure of membranes, lipid bilayers and membrane proteins. Read more here.
11/2018 – 9/2018
Professor Emerita Vicki Ruiz
of History and Chicano/Latino Studies, has been named a scholar-in-residence by Occidental College’s Institute for the Study of Los Angeles. “This is an exciting opportunity to work with colleagues and students in a liberal arts community where civic engagement is integral to undergraduate education.” Read more here.
In addition, Ruiz was also a recipient of the Apple of Gold for Excellence in Education. Awarded by the Hispanic Education Endowment Fund, the honor recognizes Ruiz’s nearly four decades of work in higher education. Read more here.
10/2018
Professor Emeritus Raul Fernandez
of the Department of Chicano and Latino Studies, School of Social Sciences, has been named the 2018 UC Irvine Outstanding Emeritus/a Awardee.
7/2018
Professor Emerita Karen Lawrence
of English, has been named president of The Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens in San Marino, effective Sept. 1. “We are thrilled that Karen has received this appointment,” said Tyrus Miller, current dean of the School of Humanities. Read more here.
6/2018
Professor Emeritus Dan Stokols
of Urban Planning & Public Policy, has been awarded Social Ecology’s inaugural Founders Award. The award is the highest honor bestowed by the School. It recognizes individuals and organizations for their commitment to upholding the ideals and ethos of social ecology, and for their efforts to find solutions to the world’s most complex problems. Read more here.
5/2018
Professor Dick Chamberlin
of Chemistry, has been named the 2018-2019 recipient of the Daniel G. Aldrich Jr. Distinguished University Service Award. The award is conferred by the Senate on a faculty member who, in addition to achieving with distinction their scholarly pursuits, has made sustained and outstanding contributions through service to the University. Read more here.
3/2018
Professor Emeritus Brook Thomas
of English, has been awarded a Senior Fulbright Teaching and Research Fellowship in American Studies for Spring Semester 2019 at Leiden University, the oldest university in the Netherlands.Read more here.
3/2018
Professor Emeritus John R. “Jack” Miles
of English and religious studies, has been appointed the 2018-19 Corcoran Visiting Chair in Christian-Jewish Relations at the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College. Read more here.
2/2018
Professor Emerita Judith S. Olson
in the Donald Bren School of Information & Computer Sciences, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering, one of the highest distinctions for those in engineering and technical fields. Read more here.
11/2017
Professor Emeritus Daniel Gajski
in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, has been recognized by edacentrum with the EDA Contribution Award for his outstanding lifetime contributions and achievements in research, development and application of electronic design automation (EDA). Read more here.
6/2017
Professor Emerita Moyra Smith
Department of Pediatrics and Human Genetics, has been awarded the 2017 UCI Outstanding Emeritus/a Award. Read more here.
4/2017
Professor Emerita Margot Norris
of English and Comparative Literature, has been honored with the 2016-17 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, which recognizes scholarly work or educational service since retirement by University of California professors emeriti in the humanities or social sciences. Read more here.
4/2017
UCI Librarian Emeritus Daniel Tsang
has won a Fulbright U.S. Scholar grant to conduct research on protest literature in Hong Kong, just as the former British crown colony marks the 20th anniversary of its return to China. He will be spending the next academic year in Hong Kong, where he was born. Read more here.
