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Financial Literacy Month
 
April is Financial Literacy Month - learn how UCI researchers are studying whether or not new smartphone apps are actually teaching people about better financial habits
 
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How hormones can hijack a healthy slumber
 
UCI cognitive scientist Sara C. Mednick studies the science of sleep and its impact on memory
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Catalysts for change
 
Local high school students participating in UCI's new Diversity, Inclusion and Racial Healing Ambassador Program are countering stereotypes
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Ad man
 
Alumnus Sunny Zaman's zest for life covers food, travel, and his high-powered job in digital media and advertising
 
 
 
 
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When research becomes personal
 
First gen faculty member and mentor Glenda M. Flores earns honors for teaching, research on Latina educators
 
 
 
Women making history
 
Trendsetters and trailblazers - these are #UCIFierceFemales
 
 
 
Precision medicine
 
How sociology grad student Vanessa Kauffman's passion for social change fuels her research on women and minority participation in biomedical research
 
 
 
Game changer: New research to put a twist on classic game theory
 
Stephan Jagau, a post-doctoral scholar at UCI's Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences receives RUBICON grant to integrate emotions into the science of decision-making
 
 
 
Passion, purpose and coffee
 
UCI senior Germain Louie, business economics, reflects on his caffeine-fueled campus experience as he prepares to graduate in June
 
 
 
Seven soc sci graduate students selected as 2019 UCI Pedagogical Fellows
 
Competitive campus program will give recipients advanced training in pedagogy, educational development, and job market preparation
 
 
 
Statistics ruined baseball by perfecting it


Edwin Amenta, sociology, explains, courtesy of The Conversation
 
 
 
 
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.
 

Brunstetter in The Conversation:

Trump's executive order on drone strikes sends civilian casualty data back into the shadows. UCI poli sci professor Daniel Brunstetter explains in The Conversation.
 
 
Meyer on kids and activism
 
The Conversation
 
 
Tesler on bias and public opinion
 
Washington Post
 
 
 
 
Hoffman on color and travel
 
Conde Nast Traveler
 
 
Wang Feng on China birth rate
 
Financial Times
 
 
 
The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation


Simone Chambers, political science, gives perspective via Science Magazine
 
 
 
 
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Identifying the Discount Factor in Dynamic Discrete Choice Models
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Jaap H. Abbring, Tilburg University
 
 
 
 
 
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Effects of Recreational Marijuana Dispensaries on Nearby Retail Rents
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Andy Zanazanian, UC Irvine Graduate Student
 
 
 
 
 
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Confronting Extremism Talks
 
3:30-5:30 p.m. | Little Theatre, School of the Arts (bldg 601 on campus map)
 
 
 
 
 
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Samuelson Meets Federalism: Local Production of a National Public Good
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Jan Brueckner, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
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Science vs the Chinese State: The Present is History
 
2:00-4:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1010 | Yangyang Cheng, Cornell University
 
 
 
 
 
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Uniform Inference in a Generalized Interval-Arithmetic Center and Range Model
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Yanqin Fan, University of Washington
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
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Erosion of State Power, Corruption Control, and Political Stability
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Yang Xie, University of California, Riverside
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
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Population Association of American Practice Talk/Posters
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Judith Treas, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
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What Place do Central Americans have in ChcLat?
 
1:30-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 318
 
 
 
 
 
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Matching Ads to Users: Performance Analysis of an Advertising Search Engine
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Miguel Alcobendas, Yahoo
 
 
 
 
 
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The Product Cycle, Trade Shocks, and the Shifting Landscape of U.S. Manufacturing
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Katheryn Russ, UC Davis
 
 
 
 
 
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NSF Funding for Early Career Investigators
 
1:00-2:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
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Olive Tree Initiative Gala
 
5:30-8:30 p.m. | Avenue of the Arts Hotel | 3350 Avenue of the Arts | Costa Mesa, CA 92626 Mohammad Al Samawi, Author of Fox Hunt | RSVP and ticket purchase required
 
 
 
 
 
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Beyond the Art Market: New Approaches to the Study of Art and Money
 
10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 3323
 
 
 
 
 
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Eckstein Lecture: Revisiting Eckstein's "On the Etiology of Internal Wars" How Has Our Understanding of Civil Wars Changed and Why
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Stathis N. Kalyvas, Professor, All Souls College, Oxford
 
 
 
 
 
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A Fight Worth Having: Striking vs. Bargaining when Future Union Power is at Stake
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Kyung Nok Chun, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
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Roots of Inequality: Gender, Early-Life Adversities and Adult Health
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Chioun Lee, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Riverside
 
 
 
 
 
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The Homosociality of Lowrider Car Culture
 
12:30-2:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 318 | Michael Chavez, Sociology, CSULB
 
 
 
 
 
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Abortion Laws and Women's Health
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Hanna Muhlrad, Lund University and the Karolinska Institute
 
 
 
 
 
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Risk-Adjusted Capital Allocation and Misallocation
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Joel David, University of Southern California
 
 
 
 
 
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Nonlinear Pricing by a Dominant Firm Under Competition
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Yong Chao, University of Louisville
 
 
 
 
 
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The Political Economy of Electricity Rates
 
4:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Linda R. Cohen, Professor in Economics, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
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Shift-Share Designs: Theory and Inference
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Michal Kolesar, Princeton University
 
 
 
 
 
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Trends in Mortality, Disease, and Physiological Status in the Older U.S. Population
 
12:45-1:45 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Eileen Crimmins, AARP Professor of Gerontology, USC; President-Elect, Pop. Assn. of America
 
 
 
 
 
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Who's Help is on the Way? The Importance of Individual Police Officers in Law Enforcement Outcomes
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Emily Weisburst, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
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Women, Wealth Effects and Slow Recoveries
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Jon Steinsson, UC Berkeley
 
 
 
 
 
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Peace and Justice Week: Building Bridges Across Divides - Racial, Political and Economic
 
4:15-9:15 p.m. | UCI Student Center, Pacific Ballroom
 
 
 
 
 
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Mechanics of Connection and Complicity: Iceland, IT, and Entangled Sovereignties
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Alix Johnson, Department of Sociology and Surveillance Studies Centre at Queen's University
 
 
 
 
 
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The Art of Writing Proposals
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
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Was Domar Right? Serfdom and Factor Endowments in Bohemia
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132| Alex Klein, University of Kent
 
 
 
 
 
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The Financial Child? Debt and Investment for Kids, 1989-2016
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 4250 | Nina Bandelj, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
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