Dr. Keri Hurley, UC Irvine School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Sciences health sciences associate clinical professor, has been named as a 2025 Newkirk Faculty Fellow, an honor that will allow her to communicate with UCI researchers across disciplines and share her work with university scholars and public audiences.
An initiative of the UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society, the Newkirk Faculty Fellows Program helps to further the Center’s mission of “foster[ing] the use of science to enhance the environment, education, health care, public infrastructure, and justice” through research and community involvement.
Members of the Newkirk Faculty Fellows Program have the responsibility of presenting a public lecture/workshop; meeting monthly with other Faculty Fellows; communicating with graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and staff of the UCI Newkirk Center for Science & Society; working on Newkirk Center programs; and attending the Faculty Fellows Symposium.
“Being selected for the Newkirk Faculty Fellowship is an opportunity to step outside of the health sciences world and collaborate with individuals from around campus in a truly interdisciplinary manner,” Dr. Hurley shared. “I am eager to work with faculty from fields such as engineering, law, anthropology, education, and others to examine how we talk about science and identify new strategies for communicating scientific findings to the public.”
