Anteater virtues; advanced care center opens

May 7, 2024

Red gladiolus fill the planter area beside Steinhaus Hall. (Photo: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine)

UC IRVINE NEWS

Project promotes Anteater virtues

The Anteater Virtues project, which began in 2019, focuses on four intellectual virtues: curiosity, integrity, intellectual humility and intellectual tenacity. It also focuses on fostering virtuous intellectual traits and avoiding intellectual shortcomings. A range of disciplinary and historical perspectives is represented throughout. “At UCI, we are devoted to enhancing our students’ intellectual development as a whole,” explains project director Duncan Pritchard, a Distinguished Professor of philosophy. “The Anteater Virtues project is a way of highlighting this feature of a UCI education, by showing students how their UCI experience can help them become more inquisitive, more open to new ideas, and have greater intellectual determination, while all the time developing their integrity as individuals.”

Wen Center for Advanced Care opens

With the opening of the Joe C. Wen & Family Center for Advanced Care last Thursday, the first stage of construction of UCI Health ― Irvine is complete. On the center’s first day in operation, approximately 500 patients were seen by specialists. The center is a state-of-the-art facility featuring 120 exam rooms and a full range of pediatric and adult specialty services. Construction of the $221 million, 168,000-square-foot facility was approved by the UC Board of Regents in 2020 and was augmented by a $20 million gift from Joe C. Wen and his family. Wen is the founder and chief executive of Sakura Paper Inc.

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Dean joins O.C. United Way initiative

Bill Maurer, dean of the School of Social Sciences, has been named chair of the Orange County United Way’s United for Financial Security initiative leadership council, which delivers programs to help struggling families. Maurer, who is also a professor of anthropology and law, directs the Institute for Money, Technology and Financial Inclusion at UC Irvine and has coordinated research in more than 40 countries on how new payment technologies affect people’s well-being.

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