The Association of American Universities (AAU) announced that UCI is one of the selected twelve AAU member campuses within the AAU STEM Education Network to receive mini-grants in the form of $10,000 for two years. The new program, called Active Learning Launch for STEM (ALL-STEM) is designed to support faculty who wish to improve student engagement in their large lecture courses. To illustrate institutional commitment, UCI will be matching the funds of the AAU STEM Mini-Grant to provide double the funding.