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Director for ADVANCE Program appointed
Professor Douglas M. Haynes has been appointed as the Director of ADVANCE effective July 1, 2006. Professor Haynes is a historian of modern Britain with a particular interest in the history of medicine, understanding in its social, cultural and political context. Professor Haynes has served as a Community Equity Advisor since 2003. He was also appointed to the UC President's Task Force on Faculty Diversity.

ADVANCE Program Institutionalized at UCI Campus
On January 9, 2006, at a luncheon to celebrate the success of the ADVANCE Program, Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Michael Gottfredson announced that his office will provide support for the institutionalization of the UCI ADVANCE Program. The support will begin following the expiration of the current NSF funding on September 30, 2006.

June 26, 2006

We are shocked and deeply saddened by the news that Denice Denton, Chancellor of UC Santa Cruz since February, 2005 and an original PI of the University of Washington Advance Program, tragically lost her life on June 24, 2006. Denice was a pioneering woman in science and engineering and will be missed by all who knew her. Our thoughts and prayers are with her partner, family, and friends.

UC Santa Cruz has established the following website outlining her life and outstanding career: http://chancellor.ucsc.edu.

Susan Bryant Appointed as New Vice Chancellor for Research
July 7, 2006
Susan V. Bryant, Dean of the School of Biological Sciences and PI of the ADVANCE Program has been named vice chancellor for research at UC-Irvine as of August 1, 2006. website outlining her life and outstanding career:

Women Leaders 2006: A Symposium for Women in University Settings
Hosted by the UC San Francisco Center for Gender Equity, the Symposium features highly respected and dynamic women leaders. Offers opportunites for education, inspiration, and connection for women. May 16 - 17, 2006, Renaissance Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco.

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4th Annual Women's Wellness Day & Health Expo:
My Body, My Self: A Day of Integrative Strategies for Looking Better & Feeling Great
Join the UCI Susan Samueli Center for Integrative Medicine and national experts to take home major strategies for looking better and feeling great. May 4, 2006, Radisson Hotel, Newport Beach.

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January 25, 2006
Making History
Kathy Bold, uci.news
Humanities faculty member Douglas Haynes helps UCI become model of diversity.

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January 3, 2006
UCI is expanding child care capacity with two new projects.
One Verano Place building is being remodeled to accommodate up to 14 children. In addition, a new facility near the current UCI Infant Toddler Center has been approved with a capacity of 40 infant/toddlers and will open Fall 2006.
If interested in being placed on a list for any of the UCI Child Care Centers, visit: http://www.childcare.uci.edu/forms.html

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December 23, 2005
Adriana Briscoe featured in the Breakthroughs of the Year: Evolution Issue of Science
Robin Arnette, Science
The article hightlights, Assistant Professor Adriana Briscoe of the Department of Evology and Evolutionary Biology on her recent findings that suggest the possibility of a surprising link between the evolution of color vision in butterflies and in humans; it also mentions the influences that have shaped Briscoe as a scientist.

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December 13, 2005
University Leaders Pledge to Help Women in Academia
Marie Felde, UC Berkeley News, Media Relations

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December 6, 2005
Two UCI female professors have been selected to conduct research and teach abroad through the Fulbright exchange program. Fulbright, the nation’s premier academic exchange program, selects U.S. and foreign scholars on the basis of academic or professional achievement and a demonstration of extraordinary leadership potential in their fields.

• Ketu Katrak, professor and chair of Asian American studies in the School of Humanities, is currently in India to study a traditional form of Indian dance, Bharata Natyam. She is attending festivals to see performances and also interviewing the dancers to learn more about the adaptation of the classical dance.
• Gloria Mark, associate professor of informatics in the Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, will be based in Berlin from January through May 2006 to study collaborative behavior of people using technology. Drawing on German researchers’ strengths in the field of work psychology, Mark will look at biases that affect people’s willingness to cooperate across distances, and how certain technologies affect engagement, participation, motivation and cohesion in teams that are separated by distance but connected by computer.

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December 5, 2005
Dr. Tallie Z. Baram Wins Nation’s Top Epilepsy Research Award
UCI female researcher honored for groundbreaking work on childhood seizures.

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November 17, 2005
UCI Receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Science Mentoring
The White House honors the UCI School of Biological Sciences' Minority Science Program with the 2005 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring for efforts encouraging minority students to pursue science.

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Kristen Monroe, professor of political science, won the Robert Lane Award from the American Political Science Association for her recent book, The Hand of Compassion: Portratis of Moral Choice During the Holocaust. The award is given each year for the best book published in the field of political psychology.

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Distinquished Professor of Social Ecology Elizabeth Loftus has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa, Israel. She was honored at a special ceremony May 29, 2005in Haifa for her influential research in the fields of human memory, eyewitness testimony and courtroom procedure.

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"Our Lives as Women in Physical Sciences" Forum held March 3, 2005
- click here to view the questions and answers discussed at the forum.

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Karen S. Rook, professor and chair of psychology and social behavior, and ADVANCE Equity Advisor received the 2005 Developmental health Award from the health and Aging interest group of the American Psychological Association for her scholarly contributions to health and aging. The award was presented at the APA annual convention in Washington, DC, in August.

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Valerie Jenness, professor and chair of criminology, law and society, has been elected president of the Society for the Study of Social Problems, an interdisciplinary community of scholars, practitioners, advocates and students interested in the study of critical social problems. Jenness will take office in 2006-07 and has been involved with the organization since 1985, serving most recently as vice president.

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Susan Bryant, advocate for gender equity in the sciences, honored by the Association for Women in Science. Election as a 2005 AWIS fellow recognizes Bryant's efforts to increase women faculty at UCI.

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Virginia Valian has put a number of tutorials on line that are quite informative and can be used to provide data and explanations about our mission to reach gender equity for faculty. Please share these with other faculty members.

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Susan Trumbore, professor of Earth system science, has been elected a fellow of the American Geophysical Union, a designation conferred upon no more than 0.1 percent of all AGU members in a given year. Trumbore, an expert in the use of radiocarbon to trace the global carbon cycle, will be recognized at the AGU joint assembly in New Orleans in May.

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Svetlana Jitomirskaya, professor of mathematics, is receiving the 2005 AMS Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize in Mathematics. Link to AMS Press Release.

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Vicki Ruiz, professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies, has been nominated by Women's e News readers, staff and board members as one of this year's 21 Leaders for the 21st Century, an honor to individuals who have made extraordinary contributions to durable change on behalf of women.

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Loftus Wins $200,000 Grawemeyer Psychology Prize for Memory Research Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology, whose research has changed the way scientists and the public view the malleable nature of human memory, has won the 2005 University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award for Psychology. Her research on false recollections has affected how law enforcement and the courts consider such testimony.

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The project summary for AWIS's study on the gender differences among non-tenure track faculty in science and technolgy is available at the Academic Climate web site.

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Ellen R.M. Druffel , professor of Earth System Science and ADVANCE Term Chair , will be honored for environmental problem-solving with the Ruth Patrick Award at the American Society for Limnology and Oceanography 2004 summer meeting next month. Druffel will be acknowledged for critical contributions to carbon research.

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Jia Grace Lu , an Assistant professor of chemical engineering, receives Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.

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Dr. Vivian M. Dickerson , named president of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

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Elizabeth F. Loftus , Distinguished Professor of Social Ecology and Cognitive Science, this week was one of 72 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Election to NAS, based on achievements in original research, is considered one of the highest honors accorded to a scientist or engineer.

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