- President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program article.
- 2009 Nobel Prize Recipients
Considered the most prestigious honor in the world, the Nobel Prize has been awarded for achievement in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature and peace since 1901 by the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2009 recipients include the first woman ever to receive a Nobel in Economic Sciences, Elinor Ostrom, the Arthur F. Bentley professor in political science and professor of public and environmental affairs at Indiana University. Professor Ostrom will share it with Oliver E. Williamson, who is at the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. The two will share the prize for their separate work on economic governance, organization, cooperation, relationships and nonmarket institutions.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is awarded to molecular biologist Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Ph.D, of the University of California, San Francisco. Blackburn shares the award with Carol W. Greider of Johns Hopkins University School of medicine and Jack W. Szostak of Harvard Medical School.
Blackburn, Greider and Szostak performed their groundbreaking investigations in the late 1970s and the 1980s. Blackburn showed that simple, repeated DNA sequences make up chromosome ends and, with Szostak, established that these repeated sequences stabilize chromosomes and prevent them from becoming damaged.
- The 2009 report on the Faculty Climate Survey is now available.
Administered in Spring 2009, this survey is the third and final survey funded by the NSF ADVANCE award to UCI. The UCI ADVANCE program commissioned an external consultant to analyze and report on the data.
- 25 TO WATCH: Dr. Linda Trinh Vo
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education Magazine released its list of 25 up-and-coming leaders. Selected among distinguished scholars with a demonstrated commitment to diversity is Dr. Linda Vo. Linda Vo is an associate professor and chair of the Asian American Studies Department. She is also a board member for the Southeast Asian Archive and is the author of Mobilizing an Asian American Community.
- Connie Pechmann, Chair of the Council on Faculty Welfare, releases a new study entitled Campus-Wide Analysis of Median Faculty Salaries by Gender and Ethnicity at UCI for 1998-2008.
- UCI Pay Equity Study Update, 2008-09
The 2008-09 Pay Equity Study Update, which is based on Fall 2008 faculty salaries, is now available online for your review at http://www.ap.uci.edu/Equity/studies. I encourage you to examine the study results, particularly as they pertain to your own school. It is the goal of Academic Affairs to ensure equity in the academic personnel appointment and review process, and will continue to monitor faculty salaries with annual pay equity studies in order to assess our progress toward that goal.
- Professor Kristen Day announced as the first Faculty Director for Civic Engagement at UCI. Professor Day, with co-chair Rameen Talesh, will lead a campuswide committee that created a new minor and provided the guidelines for transforming UCI into an engaged university.
- Spotlight: Zuzanna Siwy receives Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award
Physics & Astronomy Assistant Professor Zuzanna Siwy has received a Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in recognition of her research and teaching accomplishments. The award is given annually to 25 or fewer scientists from all disciplines worldwide. Siwy plans to work with German researchers on preparing small holes in polymer films, which can be used as sensors on proteins and DNA. They also can be used to study ions and molecules at the nanoscale
- Diane O'Dowd elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Former Equity Advisor for the School of Biological Sciences Professor Diane O'Dowd joins a record number of UCI science and engineering researchers who have been elected fellows to the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Senate Statement on Work-Life Balance Resources for Faculty.
Written by the Special Senate Committee on Diversity, the Senate Statement describes the family-friendly policies that the University of California provides for faculty.
- UCI Campus Communication: UCI Progress in Institutional Transformation
Gender Equity represents one of the most pressing challenges in higher education today. An inclusive faculty culture was and remains essential to the advancement of excellence in the mission of the University of California, Irvine.
- UCI Study Documents the Persistence of Gender Inequity in Academe.
To view the full article, click here.
- UC Irvine Diversity Web Site
- University of California Office of the President Diversity Web Site
- PAID Partnership for Adaptation, Inplementation and Dissemination: Leading Through Diversity Website http://paid.uci.edu
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UC President's Postdoctoral Fellows Appointed at UCI 2008
- UCI's Department of Criminology, Law & Society appointed Sora Y. Han, a former UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow, who will join the department in the fall. Han is an Assistant Professor in Criminology, Law & Society at UC Irvine. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and her J.D. from UCLA School of Law with an emphasis in Critical Race Studies. She is working on a book manuscript, "The Bonds of Representation: Race, Law, and the Feminine in Post-Civil Rights America," which examines the intersections of racial jurisprudence and popular culture. Articles include "The Politics of Race in Asian American Jurisprudence" ( UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal ), "Intersectionality and the Shudder" (Feminist Interpretations of Adorno, and "Strict Scrutiny: Race, Sexuality, and the Tragedy of Constitutional Law" (Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties , forthcoming). Research and teaching interests include the literary imagination of American constitutional law, psychoanalytic theories of law and visual culture, critical prison studies, and racial and feminist politics.
- Dr. Tiffany Herard-Willoughby has been appointed as an Assistant Professor for the Program in African American Studies. UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow. She earned her B.A. at Cornell University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in non-Western political theory and comparative political thought. Her research focuses on race and gender in international affairs, comparative race politics, and Third World feminisms. She was a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UC San Diego and is an award winning poet. She is widely published in her field and is currently at work on a book manuscript, “Waste of a White Skin”: Carnegie and the Making of Whiteness and Misery, which examines the political and historical impact of the Carnegie Commission Study of Poor Whites in South Africa, 1927-1932 on the creation of a distinctly racial conception of citizenship and democracy in South Africa in the consolidation of grand apartheid and Afrikaner Nationalism. It is a study of the history of race in international relations that focuses on philanthropic organizations and the role of racial citizenship, democracy, and white identity in South Africa and the United States.
- New Hire in Department of Anthropology: Dr. Angela Garcia received her PhD in Social Anthropology at Harvard University in 2007 and is a medical anthropologist conducting research on the historical and social factors influencing addiction, particularly intergenerational heroin use among Hispanics - descendants of Spanish settlers - in northern New Mexico. She is also beginning research on crack cocaine in Mexico City. Her recruitment solidifies the Department of Anthropology's standing as the national leader in medical anthropological research, especially among the diverse Latino communities of the United States, and adds to the Department an emphasis on psychocultural factors in health disparities and behaviors. She is a former President's Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles.
- Dr. Christine Balance has been hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies through the UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Hiring Incentive Program at the University of California, Irvine. Currently, she is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Music at the University of California, Riverside. Dr. Balance received a B.A. in Ethnic Studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from New York University in 2007 and specializes in the areas of Asian American cultural studies with emphases on Filipino/Filipino American arts and culture, performance studies, American ethnic studies, gender & queer studies, and popular culture. She was awarded the prestigious Consortium for Faculty Diversity Pre-Doctoral Fellowship and the 2007– 2008 President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Award.
- Department of History successfully recruits first Scholarship on Diversity professor. The Department of History welcomes Jessica Millward, a co-recipient of an Association of Black Women Historians best article award. She has taught courses on the US Slave Experience; Gender and Slavery; Race and Revolution, and Comparative Slave Rebellions. She received an M.A. in African American Studies and a PhD in History from the University of California, Los Angeles and was an Assistant Professor at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign before joining UCI's Department of History.
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- Simon Leung, Associate Professor and Affiliate
Faculty in Asian American Studies, teaching critical theory, art
history, and new genres, is among three UC Irvine professors to receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships. The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation awarded $8.2 million in fellowships this year to 190 artists, scholars and scientists from more than 2,600 applicants in the United States and Canada. He is also the recipient of the 2007 College Art Association's Art Journal Award for his essay, “The Look of Law.”
- Linda Vo, Chair and Associate Professor of Asian American Studies, is named one of OC Metro's "20 Women to Watch", which was published March 13th, 2008, recognizing her works to educate and mobilize the Asian American community in Orange County.
- Michael Goodrich, Professor in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences has been named a Chancellors Professor effective April 1, 2007. This title is conferred for a five-year renewable term and recognizes scholars who have demonstrated unusual academic merit and whose continued promise for scholarly achievenment makes them of exceptional value to the university.
- Kristen Day, Associate Professor in the School of Social Ecology has been selected by Chancellor Drake to participate in the UC Senior Leadership Institute, a residential program for select academic and administrative leaders who have the potential to serve the university at the highest levels. The institute wil take place June 17-21 in San Diego, California. Additionally, Professor Day is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service. This important recognition from the Senate follows her recent selection as American Council on Education Fellow (2007-2008). This is the third time in as many years that a faculty member associated with the UCI ADVANCE Program has been honored with the Distinguished Mid-Career Faculty Award for Service.
- Diane O'Dowd, Professor of School of Biological Sciences has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor, which honors outstanding research scientists who strive to ignite the scientific spark in a new generation of students.
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Search and Recruitment Activities
The University currently has active executive searches.
- A search committee has been formed and charged with assistance in appointing a dean for the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Science. Chaired by Frederic Wan, Professor, Department of Mathematics, this committee will evaluate nominees and make recommendations based on the suitability of candidates. For full committee membership and information, click here.
- A search committee for Dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts has been formed. A national search will be conducted to identify the most highly qualified candidates, and UC Irvine faculty are encouraged to apply. The committee will be chaired by Eli Simon, professor and chair of the Department of Drama.
UCI is committed to salary equity in the faculty reward process. Each year, a salary equity study is done to evaluate the effectiveness of its efforts. In addition, the Campus has a Career Equity review process.
- University of California Presidents Statement on Diversity
The UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity presented its recommendations on the challenges related to recruiting and retaining a diverse faculty popultion at the President's Summit on Faculty Diversity in Oakland on May 23, 2006. Click here for a copy of the full report.
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