$350,000 donated to UC Irvine programs

The estate of Frederick Reines, UC Irvine’s founding dean of physical sciences, and his wife, Sylvia Reines, announced this week that the estate would donate $350,000 to the university.

Reines, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics while a UCI professor in 1995, won world renown for his research into subatomic particles. He died in 1998 at age 80. The gift from the Reines’ estate will fund a lectureship in the physical sciences, scholarships for music and drama and special library collections.

“Both Dr. and Sylvia Reines’ legacy was ‘creativity in the life of the mind,’ ” spokesman Bill Ross said in a news release. “They felt that the university was one way in which they could support this legacy.”