In this interview, Rose Jones, Director of the UC Irvine Scholarship Opportunities Program (SOP), sits down with 2024 Goldwater Scholarship recipient and fourth-year neurobiology major Joia Cappochi. Together, they talk about Joia’s journey to UC Irvine, her involvement with research, and what it means to be UC Irvine’s only 2024 Goldwater Scholarship recipient.
Grant Lai, fourth-year Chemistry and Biological Sciences double major, was recently named a 2025-26 Churchill Scholar, the first in UC Irvine’s history! To learn more about Grant and what receiving this prestigious scholarship means to him, Rose Jones, Director of the UC Irvine Scholarship Opportunities Program, invited him for a celebratory interview.
Joia Capocchi is a 3rd year neurobiology major who conducts interdisciplinary neuroscience research with UCI MIND and UCI Microbiome. Joia's research targets the body's dynamic ecosystem of nervous, immune, and microbiome cells to challenge neurodegenerative disease....
On November 3, 2024, the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine) became one of 51 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) across the country to be named a 2024 Fulbright HSI Leader. This distinction, awarded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational...
Irvine, Calif., Oct. 11, 2022 — The University of California, Irvine has been named a 2022 Fulbright HSI Leader by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Last year, UCI was an inaugural recipient of the newly created designation,...
