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UCI Libraries has awarded two visiting scholars—Emily Mitamura, a PhD candidate from the University of Minnesota, and Danny Thanh Nguyen, a writer based in San Francisco—the Southeast Asian Archive (SEAA) Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award. Named in honor of Anne Frank, the archive’s founding librarian who retired in 2007, the is intended to defray the cost of traveling to Irvine, California to conduct hands-on research within the archive.

Learn more about the SEAA Anne Frank Visiting Researcher Award.

Five UC Irvine undergraduate students were recognized with the Nellie Ansley Reeves Awards for their outstanding senior theses. The 2023 awards include theses in the areas of English, pediatrics, chemistry, computer science, and molecular biology.

Learn more about the Nellie Ansley Reeves Award and 2023 recipients.

Based on the American Library Association’s Celebrity READ Campaign, the Grunigen Medical Library's RxEAD poster series honors UCI’s researchers and faculty in medicine and healthcare. The selection of posters in this exhibit features UCI faculty and leaders photographed with their favorite books. The exhibit will be on display on the 2nd floor of the Science Library through October 2023 during regular library hours.

Published in 1623, Shakespeare’s First Folio was a landmark of printing at the time and, as of 2020, is the most expensive piece of literature ever auctioned. In celebration of the First Folio’s 400th anniversary, this exhibit will delve into what makes this book so treasured, with special attention paid to the copy housed in the UCI Libraries Special Collections and Archives.

Exhibit will be on display in the Langson Library May through December 2023 during regular library hours.

Learn More about the Exhibit