The UCI School of Physical Science’s Office of Access, Outreach and Inclusion is excited to share that the Advancing Inclusive Excellence Award will continue in its fourth year! The Advancing Inclusive Excellence Award has been developed to offer modest financial support to Physical Sciences students, staff, postdocs and faculty who plan to develop an activity, event or project that will support the advancement of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) efforts and initiatives across the UCI Physical Sciences community. Awards will typically be granted up to $500.
The 2024-2025 Application is open until Friday, October 11th, 2024 at 5 p.m. PT.
Selected proposals will be announced in late-October. Projects must be completed before June 20th, 2025. If awarded, a project report must be completed by July 11th, 2025 to be eligible to apply for following years.
Note: There may be a second call for applications in winter, contingent on funding and the number of applications received.
Types of Projects that Could be Funded
New projects, activities or events should have the potential to promote the importance of DEI within Physical Sciences, contribute to a welcoming school climate and inspire meaningful action from others in the community. We are committed to supporting creative ideas that you have. Examples of projects may include, but are not limited to:
- Efforts for building community with Physical Sciences (i.e. cultural celebrations);
- Efforts for broadening participation in research or pursuit of graduate study.
Learn more about projects that previous awardees have worked on below.
Application and Award Process
Please submit the application prior to the deadline. Please note that you will need to submit an itemized budget, projected timeline and letter of support from your department.
The application will need to be submitted by a Physical Sciences student, staff, postdoc or faculty member. You’re welcome and encouraged to submit an application as a ‘team’ if you will be collaborating with multiple members of our community (groups, departments, student organizations or committees) but you will need to have 1 main point of contact who submits the proposal on behalf of the group. If awarded, your main contact will need to submit an end-of-the-year report documenting the activities completed.
Proposals will be considered based on the impact to the Physical Sciences community, the feasibility of its completion during the current academic year and sustainability beyond the award period. In addition, it is strongly encouraged that the home department of the individual(s) submitting the proposal has committed to matching or co-funding a portion of the budget.
To apply, please complete the application form which also includes submission of a document (max of 500 words) that addresses the criteria below AND a brief letter of support from your department chair. If your department will be co-funding or sponsoring a portion of your project, please indicate that in the letter of support. There will be a space to upload these documents at the end of the application form.
- Project Title
- Name(s) of individuals leading the project
- What are you proposing to do and how will you do it?
- What are the projected outcomes of your project?
- Project's Proposed Audience/Number of People Impacted
- Project/Activity/Event Timeline (i.e. when will this be completed?)
- Itemized Budget for Project/ Activity/Event
- How does the proposed project address one or more of the goals of the award?
- If the project is a continuation of a previous project funded by AIE Award, briefly summarize the outcomes of the previous project.
NextGen Connect: Nurturing Futures
- Hui Wang, Jun Yu (Earth System Science)
Increasing the Support Network and Sense of Community for Transfer Students in Earth System Science
- Elizabeth Crook (Earth System Science)
Building connections between Earth System Science and Santa Ana School District
- Julie Ferguson (Earth System Science)
ESS Graduate and Undergraduate Buddies
- Samantha Frucht, Jaz Romero, Haley Staudmyer, Milena Raeber (Earth System Science)
Enhancing the Undergraduate Mathematics Community at UCI
- Emi Cervantes, Ahoora Tamizifar (Mathematics)
Coffee/Lunch with a Math Professor
- Anna Ma, Paul Carter, Connor Mooney, Bob Pelayo, Nicole Vuong (Mathematics)
Math Major Undergraduate Achievement Assessment
- Marissa Corr, Jesse Wolfson (Mathematics)
Condensed Chatter
- Steven Crisostomo, César Gallegos, Hana Schiff (Physics & Astronomy)
Supporting Neurodiversity in the Physical Sciences
- Albert Siryaporn (Physics & Astronomy)
Magnifying Voices in Physics
- Hana Schiff and UNITY leadership: Patricia Fofie, India Bhalla-Ladd, Mica Bacani, Abby Baul, Maya Silverman (Physics & Astronomy)
Data Collection for Physics & Astronomy Application to SEA Change Program
- Pedro Ochoa-Ricoux, Anyes Taffard (Physics & Astronomy)
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