Bravo UCI: Informatics professor receives award from Intel

Bravo UCI: Informatics professor receives award from Intel
- August 13, 2013
- Ammad Bajwa and Ivette Aragon, political science undergrads, are featured in the Orange County Register August 13, 2013
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From the OC Register:
UC Irvine assistant professor of informatics Melissa Mazmanian recently received
an award of $40,000 as part of the 2013 Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Program…Ammad
Bajwa, a political science major, is the recipient of the 2013 Nicholas Aeberhard
Memorial Award. The award recognizes Bajwa's personal integrity, student leadership,
academic achievement and involvement with campus and civic activities. The award prize
$5,000. Bajwa earned a 4.0 GPA and a spot on UC Irvine's Mock Trial team in his first
year at UC Irvine. Ivette Aragon, a political science and criminology major at UC
Irvine, is the recipient of the 2013 Dan and Jean Aldrich Scholarship. The $2,500
award recognizes an outstanding junior and is based on merit, academic excellence,
leadership, contribution to the campus and community service. In 2011, Aragon received
the Aeberhard Memorial Award…Eli Heller, a senior UC Irvine student majoring in art
history and literary journalism, was one of four students chosen for a summer internship
at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. As an intern, Heller has
helped curate art for a new exhibit titled "Little Boxes: Vernacular Architecture
from the Collection." The exhibit is an eclectic collection of works which explores
the way people, environments and necessities shape living spaces.
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