Newkirk News & Events

R. Duncan Luce earns UCI Alumni Association's highest honor

The UCI Alumni Association at the University of California, Irvine has selected National Medal of Science winner R. Duncan Luce as its Extraordinarius recipient for the 37th annual Lauds & Laurels awards ceremony. Sixteen additional honorees also have been announced. Read More

Ayala Awarded Honorary Degree from Argentine University

Francisco Ayala, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences, has been awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa degree by the Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina. The ceremony will take place March 19-20, 2007, during a symposium on Darwin. UNLP is one of the most distinguished universities in Latin America and is located in the city of La Plata, 30 miles from Buenos Aires.

Susan Bryant Appointed Vice Chancellor for Research

Susan V. Bryant, dean of the School of Biological Sciences, has been named vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Irvine effective Aug. 1, 2006, after a national search. In that capacity, she will lead the university’s efforts to increase government and private support for research and scholarship, develop the university’s research infrastructure, facilitate technology transfer, oversee compliance with research guidelines and expand funding opportunities available to researchers. She also will advise on academic issues impacting research and help to promote diversity goals within campus research activities. Read More

American Philosophical Society Elects Loftus

UC Irvine psychologist Elizabeth Loftus, whose research and publications over the last three decades have changed the way academics, courts and the public view the malleability of human memory, has been elected to the American Philosophical Society.

Loftus is among the 49 new members chosen from five categories: mathematical and physical sciences; biological sciences; social sciences; humanities; and the arts, professions and leaders in public and private affairs. Other noteworthy new members include U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, essayist and novelist Joan Didion, former Ford Foundation president and CEO Franklin A. Thomas, and UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau.

Founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1743, the American Philosophical Society is the oldest learned society in the United States devoted to the advancement of scientific and scholarly inquiry. Members have included George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein and Robert Frost. Read More

Greening XIV Agenda Announced

The Greening XIV agenda can be found here (pdf).

The Focused Research Group in International Environmental Cooperation, Center for the Study of Democracy, and the Newkirk Center for Science and Society at UC Irvine are pleased to host the Greening XIV Conference to take place on Saturday, January 22, 2005, from 9 am to 5 pm. This will be the fourteenth annual meeting of faculty and students from Southern California colleges and universities who share an interest in environmental research.

The Greening Conference is intended to introduce Southern Californian scholars to a wide range of research projects on environmental issues either currently in progress or recently finished. The format for the conference is panels comprised of approximately four papers each. Panels are made up of student and faculty work, representing Southern California policy, politics, and environmental science and studies programs.

The campus map and driving directions can be found at http://www.uci.edu/campusmap/

For more information please contact Jamie Morgan at jfmorgan@uci.edu

Newkirk Center Spring 2004 Newletter

The Newkirk Center for Science and Society continues to make an impact in Orange County and beyond.

Since its opening in 2001, the Newkirk Center has been faithful to its mission of transferring effective uses of research in the natural and social sciences to enhance our quality of life. Read More (PDF 60k)

Advisory Board Member Dr. Elizabeth Loftus elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Elizabeth Loftus, Distinguished Professor in UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

Loftus, a forensic memory expert, was one of only 72 scientists from around the world elected to the respected 141-year-old academy today. Members are nominated and elected based on distinguished and continuing achievements in original research. Read More

Allen gift for health related lecture series announced.

The Dick & Mary Allen Lecture series, funded through a generous gift from Dick and Mary Allen, is an annual lecture on science and health. It will focus on such topics as:

Health and Diabetes.
Nutrition and Technologies.
Disadvantaged and Underserved Populations.
Stem Cell and other cutting edge research.
How scientific research relates to above health topics.

Professor Simon Cole Receives NSF Award.

The National Science Foundation has awarded a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to Professor Simon Cole of the Department of Criminology, Law & Society. Dr. Cole was a recipient of a 2003 Newkirk Center for Science and Society seed grant. The CAREER awards are the National Science Foundation's most prestigious awards for new faculty members. Professor Cole's award will fund research towards a systems analysis of the utilization of scientific evidence in the criminal law.