Click on video for UCI Ukraine Emergency Response CALL TO ACTION!
“I am trying to do something for Ukrainian scientists and academics – to bring them, at least temporarily, to U.S. research labs, specifically here to UCI.” - Professor Iryna Zenyuk |
"I am called to HELP! This is the biggest refugee crisis in Europe since World War II..." -Kevin Bossenmeyer Public Affairs/Interview Host KUCI 'UCI Conversations' |
The UCI Scholars at Risk program is launching a crowdsourcing campaign to help university professors, students and lab technicians to flee Ukraine.
Our goal is to raise $100,000 by June 1 and work on matching funding from various other sources.
Please make your gift today to support this crucial initiative. Your gift will go towards paying for transportation out of Ukraine or from a third country to the U.S., visa-related costs, salary, health insurance, and basic living expenses, so that our colleagues may enrich our campus community and continue their education, research, and teaching in a safe environment. When we reach this goal, with additional matching funds, we will be able to sponsor two or three Ukrainian colleagues and their families at UCI.
We are working with the Scholars at Risk program and the IIE Scholar Rescue Fund, two international networks organized to support academic freedom, to respond to this crisis. We will update this page with information about the individuals we are sponsoring as that information becomes available.
Please make your gift today – and please share this campaign on social media as widely as possible to spread awareness and raise additional support. Our hearts go out to the people of Ukraine. Let us hope for safety and welfare to those in harm’s way.
Thank you for your consideration and support.
UCI Ukraine Benefit Concert April 22, 2022
Image Credits: Iryna Zenyuk Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering photo: Steve Zylius/UCI
https://news.uci.edu/2022/03/16/helping-her-homeland/
| Rank | State | Gifts |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | CA | 18 |
| 2 | OR | 1 |
| 2 | WA | 1 |
