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Education champion

Anteater alumna Nikita Patel left a comfortable job to volunteer with the Peace Corps in South Africa - now she's ready to make change here at home


It's not difficult to find someone who wants to change the world. It's harder to find a person who will actually make the effort and take action. Not surprisingly, UCI is home to many of the latter, and School of Social Sciences alumna Nikita Patel is one of them. Three years after graduating with her bachelor's in both international studies and political science, she dropped everything - including a comfortable corporate job - and flew to South Africa to begin work with the Peace Corps. Now she's home, and ready to tackle international development issues from U.S. soil.

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news

New report proposes learning tech inequality solutions

UCI Digital Media and Learning Research Hub study explores existing approaches to reduce digital divide

Study: Orange County spends $299 million to address homelessness

Groundbreaking cost study now available


Penner awarded Fletcher Jones Fellowship

Sociology grad student earns campus-wide fellowship for outstanding research and potential as a future leader

Weighing in on 'anchor babies'

Anthropology professor Leo R. Chavez's new book explores birthright citizenship

Graphic novel's comic book format ideal for complex subject

UCI's Sherine Hamdy intertwines story of religion and health through illustrations, creating new genre

Money Life with Bill Maurer

Soc sci dean Bill Maurer talks about his new book, Paid





up-coming events

25th Annual Margolis Lecture: Thinking about Global Futures - and America's

Nov 30

Global Connect Fundraiser: Puerto Rico - Una Noche de Esperanza (A Night of Hope)

Dec 6

Business Outlook Breakfast

Jan 24

The Cognitive Neuroscience of Constructive Memory: Using the Past to Imagine the Future
November 29

25th Annual Margolis Lecture: Thinking about Global Futures - and America's
November 30

Bottleneck Links, Essential Intermediaries and Competing Paths of Diffusion in Networks
November 30

U.S. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Exchange Program: Next Level in Serbia
November 30

Instrumental Divergence and Goal-Directed Choice
December 1

Global Connect Fundraiser: Puerto Rico - Una Noche de Esperanza (A Night of Hope)
December 6

Learning about The Influence of Spatial and Temporal Proximity using Regression Trees
December 7

On Sovereignty and Regionhood: The Case of Myrie v. Barbados at the Caribbean Court of Justice
December 7

Business Outlook Breakfast
January 24





in the media

Watergate offers parallels, but doesn't predict what will happen to Trump

Beckmann, OC Register

Social norms, moral judgments, and irrational parenting

Thomas, Sarnecka and Stanford, Medium

The digital ruins of a forgotten future

Boellstorff, The Atlantic

Report: Trump considering political pick for key spot at Census Bureau
Brunell, CBS News

Housing shortage sent homeless at transitional shelter back to streets
Snow and Goldberg, Voice of OC

Democrats do no good when they kick Hispanic Republicans to curb (Opinion)
Rumbaut, The Hill

What can the Orange County in Florida teach its West Coast counterpart about homelessness? Plenty, says one advocate
Snow and Goldberg, Orange County Register

Utah Navajos will soon have more political power in San Juan County, though some don't like the changes
Grofman, The Salt Lake Tribune

LaCroix: It's not a woman's world just yet
LaCroix, Ottawa Citizen

Money Life with Bill Maurer
Maurer, Money Life


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