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| Call for Nominations: 2023 UCI School of Medicine Annual Research Awards | The research awards have six categories to recognize research excellence and outstanding academic achievement in the UCI School of Medicine. Each awardee will receive a monetary award and an individual plaque of recognition, and their names will be added to an enduring plaque on display in Irvine Hall.
Deadline: Award nominations are due by Friday, March 24, 2023, to Shauna Stark (starks@hs.uci.edu).
See here for more details. |
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| Call for Nominations: 2023 UCI School of Medicine Faculty Mentoring Awards | There will be four awards to recognize excellence and innovation in mentoring at UCI School of Medicine — specifically in the domain of faculty mentoring other faculty (not students). Each awardee will receive $1,000 and a plaque. They will also be interviewed, along with their mentee, by an associate dean about their experience, insights and advice on faculty mentoring. These video interviews will be posted on the School of Medicine Academic Affairs website. Winners’ names will be added to enduring plaques displayed in Irvine Hall.
Deadline: Department chair and/or mentee nominations for each award category are due by Friday, March 24, 2023, to Associate Dean Brian Cummings, cummings@hs.uci.edu and Rushi Patel, ruship2@hs.uci.edu.
See here for more details. |
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| School of Medicine Applications for Bridge Funding Due January 25 | Please note that the next UCI Office of Research Deadline is February 1, 2023. Thus, complete applications, including a signed letter of support by your department chair showing financial commitment, are due to the School of Medicine Office of Research on or before January 25, 2023.
Read more here. |
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| Applications for UCI NIH Boot Camp Now Open! | The application for the 2023 UCI NIH Boot Camp is now open. Eligibility: UCI Faculty and Career Researchers (e.g., Project Scientists). Career Researchers will need to include a Letter of Support from their PI and Department Chair as part of their application. Apply here via InfoReady. Email the School of Medicine Research Development Unit (RDU) at somrd@hs.uci.edu if you have any questions.
Deadline: The application portal will close on Monday, January 30, 2023.
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| Have You Received a New Award? | | Have you or someone on your research team received a new grant, i.e., research funding? The School of Medicine Office of Research would like to know! Please fill out this short form. |
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| Funding Opportunities Recently Added to Calendar |
| Call for Proposals: Agilent Early Career Professor Award | Agilent Technologies has opened the grant cycle for the 2023 Early Career Professor Award. UCI may submit one nomination for this $120,000/2 years award. Funding is unrestricted and may also be used to purchase Agilent products at 50% discount, or an option to accelerate payments to facilitate procurement of equipment with list price over $120,000.
The purpose of the award is to: 1) Promote and encourage excellent research enabling technologies of importance to Agilent and the world and 2) Establish strong collaborative relationships with leading professors early in their career. The 2023 Focus is development of live cell analytical tools to identify and measure novel critical quality attributes to advance biomanufacturing applications.
Eligibility: Must have tenure-track (Assistant Professor) faculty position and completed PhD/MD residency within 12 years of award.
Deadline: Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Submit application via InfoReady here. |
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| Call for Proposals: Research Seed Funding Program | The 2022-23 UCI Research Seed Funding Program is aimed at investing in promising research directions where internal seed level investment can lead to externally funded “center-scale” research programs. The UCI strategic plan identifies convergence research as one of the keys to achieving the vision of research growth that makes a difference. Here convergence refers to deep integration of knowledge bases, tools, techniques, and ways of thinking from physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, computing and social sciences, and reaching out to humanities, arts, business and law to address major societal challenges. Accordingly, seed funding proposals are invited from multidisciplinary teams that can compete for extramural funding. Please note that the Seed Funding Program is not intended to serve as a funding mechanism for internal UCI-based centers.
Applicants: UCI faculty members who are eligible to serve as Principal Investigators may apply. Only multi-investigator, multi-disciplinary teams and proposals are eligible.
Proposals due: Friday, Jan. 13, 2023
Read more and apply via UCI Review here. |
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| California Climate Action Research Initiative | UC Research and Innovation is pleased to announce the release of the 2023 Request for Proposals (RFP) for the California Climate Action Research Initiative. This funding opportunity is part of a historic partnership between the University and the state of California to combat climate change through investments in climate action research that will have swift and measurable impact. Approximately $80 million is available in this competition to fund projects that propose action-oriented solutions that address California’s climate goals and needs, ensure that local communities are prepared and resilient, and prevent future disasters. Frequently Asked Questions are linked here, and are updated weekly.
This competition offers grants in two distinct categories: - California Climate Action Seed Grants ($500,000 - $2 million/award)
- California Climate Action Matching Grants ($2 million - $10 million/award)
Required Letter of Intent for both categories are due: Tuesday, January 17, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
View the RFP here. |
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| Faculty Seed Grants in Cancer Research Funding Opportunity | The Cancer Research Coordinating Committee (CRCC) is pleased to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) for the 2023-24 Faculty Seed Grants. The CRCC is a systemwide, faculty-directed cancer research program that provides one-year seed grants for topics in any discipline that address any aspect of cancer, including its origins, prevention and cure. CRCC funds support meritorious research spanning all areas from basic research to applied clinical and community-based research in any field relevant to cancer. Eligible PIs must be members of the Academic Senate at one of the ten UC campuses.
Applicant webinar: Wednesday, January 11, 2023 at 1:30 p.m.
Required Letters of Intent Due: Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.
View the RFP here. |
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| Dependent Care Travel Award Funding | Academic Senate faculty members at UCI are invited to apply for winter 2023 Dependent Care Travel Awards (DCTA). The awards provide up to $1,000 to assist faculty parents with childcare beyond regular arrangements to enhance academic productivity. The winter 2023 call supports scholarly travel activities during the period of March 1, 2023-June 30, 2023. All qualifying Senate faculty members (parents of a child age six years or younger at the time of application) are invited to apply. These awards are designed to subsidize childcare costs associated with travel to a professional conference or research meeting; the awards may also be used for daycare costs incurred during an approved sabbatical leave that requires relocation.
Deadline: Tuesday, January 31 at 5:00 p.m.
Submit your application here. |
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| UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge Pilot Projects | The UCI Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (CFCCC) is pleased to release the Request for Proposals for our 2022 UCI Anti-Cancer Challenge Pilot Projects. This competition offers awards of $20,000 - $60,000 (total direct costs) across five distinct funding opportunities and along two tracks, with emphasis on projects capable of significant impact within 1-2 years.
Letters of Intent (optional) Due: Thursday, January 26, 2023 (5:00 pm PST)
Applications Due: Monday, March 6, 2023 (5:00 pm PST)
Read more about the different award types and apply here. |
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| UC-HBCU Initiative Request for Proposals | The request for proposals and application materials are now available for the University of California-Historically Black Colleges and Universities (UC-HBCU) Initiative. UC places a priority on enrolling scholars from historically underrepresented populations. The UC-HBCU Initiative seeks to increase the number of scholars from HBCUs enrolling in and attending UC graduate programs. The initiative also supports faculty and departmental efforts and cross-institutional collaborations between UC campuses and HBCUs.
The program currently provides three funding opportunities: Summer Research Internship Support Grants, Summer Research and Graduate Admission Pathways Grants, and Small Research Grants.
For 2023-24, UCI can offer up to $50,000 to fund a UC-HBCU Internship Support Grant not funded by UCOP. Associate Vice Provost Sharon Block (sblock@uci.edu) can assist with grant draft review and arranging a letter of support from OIE.
Informational Webinar: Tuesday, January 31, 3-4pm.Applications Due: Wednesday, March 15, 2023 (12 p.m. PT)
Read more here.
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| Biomedical Knowledgebase (U24 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed) (PAR-23-078) | This funding opportunity announcement is designed to support biomedical knowledge bases. Biomedical knowledge bases under this announcement should have the primary function to extract, accumulate, organize, annotate, and link growing bodies of information related to core datasets. Support for data curation should include efficient and effective methods of curation that scale to the needs of the community and include semi-automated methods. Support for software and tool development must be limited to that which provides essential functions or significantly increases the efficiency of operation of the knowledgebase.
Applications that have a significant focus on software or tool development are not appropriate for this activity. See FOA here.
General due date: January 25, 2023
AIDS due date: May 08, 2023 |
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| Biomedical Data Repository (U24 - Clinical Trials Not Allowed) (PAR-23-079) | This funding opportunity announcement is designed to support biomedical data repositories. Biomedical data repositories under this announcement should have the primary function to ingest, archive, preserve, manage, distribute, and make accessible the data related to a particular system or systems. Support for data curation must be limited to that which improves the efficiency and accessibility of data ingestion, management, and use and reuse by the user communities. Support for software and tool development must be limited to that which provides essential functions or significantly increases the efficiency of operation of the repository. Applications that have a significant focus on software and tool development are not appropriate for this activity. See FOA here.
General due date: January 25, 2023
AIDS due date: May 08, 2023 |
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| Enhancing the Use of the UCI All of Us Research Programs Data (R21 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-PM-23-001) | The UCI All of Us Research Program (All of Us) within the Office of the Director (OD) encourages investigators to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs (1) one to use standard methods and approaches to analyze currently available data within the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench and (2) one to develop new methods, models, and tools and use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench. The new tools will be made broadly available to the scientific community. This FOA uses the R21 grant mechanism for new tool development and application, while the companion FOA (link) uses the R03 grant mechanism to support data analysis using standard methods. See FOA here.
Due date: March 01, 2023 |
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| Small Grants to Enhance the Use of the UCI All of Us Research Programs Data (R03 Clinical Trial Not Allowed) (RFA-PM-23-002) | The UCI All of Us Research Program (All of Us) within the Office of the Director (OD) encourages investigators to apply for grant awards that will advance research in high-priority mission areas of the Institutes, Centers, and Offices (ICOs) through two companion FOAs (1) one to use standard methods and approaches to analyze currently available data within the All of Us Research Program’s Researcher Workbench and (2) one to develop new methods, models, and tools and use them to analyze data in the Researcher Workbench. The new tools will be made broadly available to the scientific community. This FOA uses the R03 grant mechanism to support data analysis using standard methods, while the companion FOA (link) uses the R21 mechanism for new tool development and application. See FOA here.
Due date: March 01, 2023 |
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| Two Month Reminder: Upcoming Deadlines |
| Upcoming Seminars & Events |
| Register for one of the upcoming UCI NIH Boot Camp Informational Sessions | The Research Development Unit will be hosting three virtual UCI NIH Boot Camp informational sessions. Attend one to learn more about this program and how to apply for the upcoming 2023 UCI NIH Boot Camp! - Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 12 to 1 p.m.; register here.
- Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 3 to 4 p.m.; register here.
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| Department of Biological Chemistry Seminar Series | Protein Methylation Integrates Wnt Signaling and Cell Metabolism in Cancer by Lauren V Albrecht, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, UCI
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Tamkin Student Lecture Building, Room F114 |
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| Beckman Laser Institute 2023 Seminar Series | A Leadership Toolbox for Operationalizing Innovation at Your Institution by Lilit Garibyan, MD, PhD, physician-scientist at Wellman Center for Photomedicine, board certified dermatologist and faculty member at Harvard Medical School Department of Dermatology.
In today’s challenging healthcare environment, the importance of innovation has never been greater. Every healthcare institution and university strive to be innovative, but successful innovative cultures and programs are difficult to create and sustain especially in the busy and fast-paced healthcare settings. Creating an innovative culture requires having a structured process and framework that educates, trains and rewards individuals who engage in innovation.
The “Magic Wand Initiative” was created at Massachusetts General Hospital to empower and engage healthcare professional in problem-based innovation. It is designed to bring innovation directly to clinicians, reduce the barriers to engagement and provide necessary resources for clinical and research faculty to work collaboratively to solve unmet needs and generate outcomes.
Over the last several years, Dr. Garibyan has lectured about this revolutionary and impactful national and international curriculum called the “Magic Wand Initiative and Virtual Magic Wand program” (http://www.magicwandinitiative.org/) to teach leaders and clinicians how to leverage innovation for outcomes. In this talk we will aim to: describe the importance of innovation in healthcare; identify common barriers to innovation; and develop strategies that individuals and institutions can use to implement innovation.
Thursday, January 12, 2023, 12 to 1:00 p.m.
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| Center for Translational Vision Research (CTVR) Research Seminar: Distinguished Speaker Series | Precision Ophthalmology for Stargardt/ABCA4 Disease
Rando L. Allikmets, PhD, William and Donna Acquavella Professor at the Departments of Ophthalmology and Pathology & Cell Biology, and Director of Research at the Harkness Eye Institute, Columbia University, New York
January 13, 2023, 8:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
In Person, on the 3rd floor of the GHEI building, Cavanaugh Room or Join Zoom MeetingMeeting ID: 944 8366 9170, Passcode: 745306 |
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| EpiCenter Seminars | Of Mice and KCNQ Channels: Lessons Learned from Animal Models
Anastasios Tzingounis, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology & Neurobiology, University of Connecticut
Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
In-person: Palmer Family Research and Conference Room - UCI Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute |
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| UCI Conte Center Seminar Series | New Directions in Research on Childhood Adversity by Andrea Danese, MD, PhD, Professor of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, King's College London
Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
Telecast via Zoom
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| CHOC Research Education: Best Practices for Collecting High-Quality Data | Speaker: Rachel Carmen Ceasar, PhD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Population and Public Health Sciences, USC's Southern California Clinical and Translational Science Institute, Keck School of Medicine of USC.
Dr. Rachel Ceasar is a qualitative research consultant with the Biostatistics Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) team at The USC SC CTSI. In this role, Rachel supports faculty and junior investigators with studies and grants involving qualitative research, including focus groups, one-on-one interviews, quality-of-life work, and mixed methods. Dr. Ceasar also has experience with IRB applications, conducting interviews, and coding.
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 12 to 1:15 p.m. |
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| Register Now! UCI 2023 Annual Skin Symposium | Featured Speakers: Angela Christiano, PhD, Columbia University; Xing Dai, PhD, UCI; Rachael Clark, MD, PhD, Dana Farber Harvard University; Christopher Glass, MD, PhD, UCSD; Dennis Roop, PhD, University of Colorado; Katie Cockburn, PhD, McGill University; Michael Longaker, MD, Stanford University; Aayushi Uberoi, PhD, University of Pennsylvania.
This will be a full-day event, food will be provided.
Friday, January 20, 2023, 9 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.
Gross Hall, 4th floor Thorp Conference Center |
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| Rescheduled! School of Medicine Informational Webinar: NIH P & U Mechanism Panel | Rescheduled: The School of Medicine Office of Research will be hosting a virtual NIH P & U Mechanism Panel, moderated by Dr. Albert La Spada. There will be a brief overview of these mechanisms prior to the panel discussion.
Expert Panelists: Elizabeth Head, PhD, Department of Pathology; Daniele Piomelli, PhD, Department of Anatomy & Physiology; Vladimir Kefalov, PhD, Department of Ophthalmology; and Leslie Thompson, PhD, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Monday, January 23, 2023, 12 to1 p.m. |
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| 2023 Community Lecture Series: Thyroid Eye Disease | Thyroid Eye Disease: Eye problems related to thyroid eye disease: bulgy eyes, double vision and dry eye.
Register for a UCI Gavin Herbert Eye Institute virtual lecture on thyroid eye disease. Make plans to join us for our free seminars where you will learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment of eye-related conditions.
Our goal is to further educate the public on eye health and related topics to help improve our community’s overall health and well-being. All seminars are one hour and begin at 7:00 p.m.
Speakers: Lilangi S. Ediriwickrema, MD, Olivia L. Lee, MD, Vivek Patel, MD, UCI School of Medicine
January 24, 2023, 7:00 p.m.
Website for more info here.
Virtual via Zoom |
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| Microbiology and Molecular Genetics Seminar Series 2023-2024 | The unexpected burn kindled by antibiotic treatment by Joshua Woodward, PhD, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle
Wednesday, January 25, 2023, 4:00 p.m.
Nelson Auditorium |
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| UCI Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) Distinguished Lecture Series (DLS) | Neuroimmune interactions in chronic pain: From clinical to clinically-informed basic science by Vivianne L. Tawfik, MD, PhD, Associate Professor and Director of the Fellowship in Anesthesia Research & Medicine (FARM) program, Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine
Friday, January 27, 2023, 4 to 5:00 p.m.
Sponsored by: UCI Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP)
Co-Sponsored by: Department of Anesthesiology & Perioperative Care
Hybrid event: Nelson Auditorium or Zoom
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| Anatomy & Neurobiology Seminar Series | Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Analyses Reveal CD8 T Cells as the Driver of Brain Aging by Ozgun Gokce, PhD, Medical Faculty, Independent Research Group Leader, University of Bonn, Ludwig Maximilians-University of Munich
Monday, January 30, 2023, 10:30 a.m.
Gillespie 1st Floor Conference Room 1133 |
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| Missing Data & Multiple Imputation in Stata | This talk will introduce different kinds of mechanisms that lead to missing data such as missing at random (MAR), missing completely at random (MCAR), and missing not at random (MNAR). It will also cover the use of two missing data techniques. First, Dr. Huber will demonstrate how to use Stata's -mi- commands to impute missing data and fit models using the imputed datasets. Second, he will demonstrate Stata's ability to implement FIML (Full information Maximum Likelihood) using the -sem- command.
Speaker: Chuck Huber, PhD, Director of Statistical Outreach at StataCorp and Adjunct Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the Texas A&M School of Public Health
Monday, January 30, 2023, 11:30am-1:pm |
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| Crash Course in NIH Funding: 2023 NIH Grants Conference | NIH invites you to explore the 2023 NIH Grants Conference, offering 2-days of sessions designed to clarify the NIH grants process and policies, as well as provide the latest news and information. Twenty-five sessions offer attendees an array of options on various topics, and the opportunity to engage with presenters through Q&A and chat features. Once registered and logged into the conference site, you are free to explore the 2-day agenda, on-demand library of related resources, and create your personal schedule!
Wednesday, February 1, 2023 & Thursday, February 2, 2023, from 10 a.m. to 2:45 p.m.See the agenda here: https://grants.nih.gov/learning-center/conference/2-day/agenda-at-a-glance
See here for 3 Ways to Prepare for the 2023 NIH Grants Conference. |
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| New Overview Video for Status Screens for SOs and PIs | | The updated Status Screen Overview (SO & PD/PI) video demonstrates the differences between the status screens used by the Signing Official (SO) and the status screens used by the principal investigator (PI), along with its capabilities. Read more here. |
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| NIH: 2022: A Year in Review | | As in previous years, Dr. Michael Lauer, Deputy Director for Extramural Research at NIH, virtually sat down with Dr. David Kosub, from the NIH communications group, to reflect on 2022 and what is in store for 2023. Please join for this brief conversation and share your thoughts here. |
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| NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy Resources | NIH has released a new Data Management and Sharing Policy, effective Jan. 25, 2023, which requires the submission of a Data Management and Sharing Plan as part of all proposals for research that will generate scientific data. The NIH expects that the data generated will be shared broadly at the conclusion of the research. Researchers should plan now for the rollout of these requirements and develop Data Management and Sharing Plans that meet NIH expectations.
The following resources are available now for developing your plan: - The UCI School of Medicine Office of Research held an informational webinar on Tuesday, November 8th. View the recording and slides.
- The NIH held a two-part webinar series. View the recordings and slide decks here
- Learn more about this new NIH policy here and in their recent post.
- UCI Libraries has a wealth of resources on their page including the DMPTool and is available for 1:1 consultations.
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| What is Research Development? | | Research Development encompasses strategic, proactive, and capacity-building activities designed to support individual faculty and teams of faculty in obtaining extramural research funding and also increase institutional competitiveness. The UCI School of Medicine Research Development Unit (RDU) meets individual faculty to provide information regarding research resources and assistance with grant proposals. Click here to make an appointment. |
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| Mask Mandate Updated: Masking Recommended But No Longer Required in Indoor, Non-Healthcare Settings | Per the August 19 message from David Souleles, director of the Campus Public Health Response Team, the executive directive on mandatory face coverings has been rescinded effective August 20.
Face coverings are recommended indoors but are not required. Individuals should feel free to continue to wear face coverings, and this protection may be required in some research settings.
The update is consistent with the California Department of Public Health’s recommendations on masking and face coverings.
Please note that masking is still required in all healthcare settings. Face coverings may also be required consistent with public health guidance for a limited duration for those who were COVID-19 positive and returning from isolation, and for those recently exposed to someone with COVID-19. Face coverings are available on campus for all employees and students.
For the latest COVID-19 information, please visit the UCI Forward Website. |
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