Congratulations to Garnet Hertz on His New Faculty Appointment!
Congratulations to Garnet Hertz on his new faculty appointment as Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, Canada!
Congratulations to Sen Hirano on His Advancement!
Congratulations to Sen Hirano on advancing to Ph.D. candidacy. Sen presented his work on using gas sensors to assist novice cooks. Sen’s committee was comprised of Drs. Gillian Hayes, Don Patterson, Bill Tomlinson, Judy Olson, and Rebecca Black. Congratulations!
Custodio Wins Chancellor’s Award of Distinction!
Congratulations to STAR’s own Erick Custodio, who won the UCI Class of 2014 Chancellor’s Award of Distinction! The Chancellor’s Award of Distinction recognizes an exceptional group of graduating students who exhibit a commitment to cutting-edge research, leadership, or service to UCI. The award recognizes UCI’s most outstanding undergraduates.
2014 NSF GRFP Honorable Mention
Congratulations to STAR PhD student Oliver Haimson, who received an Honorable Mention for the National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) for 2014. The National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) helps ensure the vitality of the human resource base of science and engineering in the United States and reinforces its diversity. […]
Brubaker Quoted in Knowledge@Wharton!
Jed’s work is featured in an article in online business analysis journal Knowledge@Wharton, titled “Rest in Peace: Planning for Your Demise, Digitally“. But online memorials are delicate entities. Who has custody of the profile? Who gets access? Who has the right to decide what’s appropriate to include, and what is involved in those decisions? Jed […]
Wendy Yang to Start MS in Public Health at Johns Hopkins!
Congratulations to STAR undergrad Wendy Yang, who will starting a Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH) in Social and Behavioral Interventions in the Department of International Health at Johns Hopkins University‘s Bloomberg School of Public Health in Fall 2014! Broadly, I hope to incorporate social/behavioral theory from the public health standpoint to design technologies […]
Andrea Lau to Start MS in HCI at Georgia Tech!
Congratulations to STAR undergrad Andrea Lau, who will starting a Master of Science in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech in Fall 2014! Andrea will be in the Interactive Computing Track.
Hayes Named Faculty Director for UCI’s New Civic and Community Engagement Program!
Congrats to Gillian Hayes, who was named the Faculty Director for the new Civic and Community Engagement program at UC Irvine! The minor in civic and community engagement is open to all undergraduate majors on campus. The minor is a chance to use your academic experience to make a difference in the world and get […]
Registration is Open for Autism AppJam
Make a difference! Win cash Prizes! Build an application for persons with Autism. Open to all majors, schools, and campuses. Register HERE. Students can apply as individuals, pairs, trios, or teams of up to 5, and we will arrange final teams of 5 from those submissions. You do not have to have any background in autism nor […]
Haimson Wins Infographic Contest!
Congrats to Oliver Haimson, who won Infogr.am‘s Pi Day Pie Chart Contest with this infographic about cheese pizza. We held a pie party in LUCI to celebrate and to eat the contest prize: $50 in pie. You can read more about the whole ridiculous affair here, here, and here.