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featured:
A business in Bloom
 
Stephanie Domzalski '03 is creating community through floral art with BloomLA, a pop-up art show debuting in Griffith Park, Los Angeles June 22-24.
 
Read on...
 
 
 
 
featured:
Finding her voice
 
Involvement in campus life and leadership helped triple major Amy Hu find the confidence to speak at her graduation. With it, she wants to thank her father for helping her and her sisters find UCI.
 
 
 
 
 
 
featured:
In her own words
 
'18 Lauds and Laurels Outstanding Undergrad Iman Siddiqi, political science, will cap off an extraordinary undergrad career by addressing a stadium of her peers as a 2018 School of Social Sciences commencement speaker.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
featured:
Making her own path
 
How sociology major Priscilla Tenggara '18 landed her dream job at Facebook.
 
 
 
 
more
news
 
 
 
The power of peers
 
Study finds friends influence middle schoolers' attitudes on interacting with peers of different ethnicities, races
 
 
 
Stricter FAA regulations on pilots linked to higher fares, fewer flights
 
UCI study also finds low-cost, regional air carriers disproportionately affected
 
 
 
Immigrant policing and public health
 
UCI study finds intense immigrant policing practices corrode Latinos' trust in the government as a source of health information
 
 
 
Do opioids help injured workers recover and get back to work?
 
UCI professor says no; longer-term opioid prescribing leads to considerably longer duration of temporary disability
 
 
 
War! What is it good for?
 
First of its kind study, published by UCI ESSPRI, uses U.S. Army administrative data to examine the economic impacts of combat exposure in the Global War on Terrorism
 
 
 
Student researchers look to the past to understand recent bank failures
 
Findings presented at annual UROP symposium
 
 
 
Sociology grad student awarded grant from NSF
 
Dissertation funding will fund Chris Zoeller's research on the global economy
 
 
 
UCI A-team places 3rd in national mock trial competition
 
Two from team earn awards for individual efforts
 
 
 
Fourteen from social sciences honored with Chancellor's Award of Distinction
 
Award recognizes UCI's most outstanding graduating seniors
 
 
 
featured:
A divided family
(NYT podcast)


UCI anthropology professor Sylvia Nam tells her family's story of separation caused by the Korean War. Listen in, courtesy of The Daily podcast by The New York Times.
 
 
 
 
soc sci
in the media
 
Social sciences faculty are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. Check out some of our top hits below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 

Pulling off the perfect power nap

Napping is not for everybody (or every business), says Sara Mednick, associate professor of psychology at UCI and author of the book Take a Nap! Change Your Life, but here's what she and other sleep researchers have learned about the neuroscience of naps and the recipe for the most effective workday siesta. Read on, courtesy of HowStuffWorks.
 
 
Glazer on
Amazon's HQ2
(op-ed)
LA Times
 
 
Tobar on the U.S/Mexico border wall (op-ed)
New York Times
 
 
Treas on
parenting
today
Business Review
 
 
Petracca on
the June
primary
Voice of OC
 
 
 
featured:
Why we love O.C.


Orange Coast Magazine explains how UCI is a "star in our midst, achieving elite status in many areas"
 
 
 
 
calendar of
up-coming events
 
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1
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Multiple Realizability and the Spirit of Functionalism
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777 | Rosa Cao, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University
 
 
 
 
 
6
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Public Transit Use: the Role of Social Influence
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Nagwa Khordagui, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
6
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Human Capital, Inequality, and Economic Growth
 
6:00-7:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza, Room 2112 | Kevin Murphy, George J. Stigler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Social Sciences Undergrad and Masters Commencement Ceremony 1
 
3:00 p.m. | UCI Bren Center | Student Speaker: Amy Hu
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Social Sciences Undergrad Commencement Ceremony 2
 
6:00 p.m. | UCI Bren Center | Student Speaker: Iman Siddiqi
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
JUNE
 
   
 
15th Annual Graduate Hooding Ceremony
 
4:30 p.m. | UCI Bren Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
uci soc sci
 
We are not your standard school. Like Peter, our beloved Anteater mascot, we're quirky and different. We're on a mission to create positive change in society, economies and human well-being by breaking down traditional barriers and pushing the limits in teaching, research and service. Doing so requires a different attitude, aim and set of actions.
 
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