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Imagine: L.A. bicyclists in the driver's seat, one day a week

Adonia Lugo, anthropology graduate student, is quoted in the LA Times on November 4, 2009


Korean-American elected to Virgina House of Delegates

Mark L. Keam, political science alumnus, is featured in the Korea Herald on November 6, 2009


Ana Pesic receives 2009 Sheen T. Kassouf Fellowship

Award named in honor of pioneering economics professor and academician


Social Sciences standout scholar Elizabeth McDowell

2009 recipient of the Reza Zarif and Rufina Paniego School of Social Sciences Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Anthropology


A ‘rat-brained’ scheme for decisions

Study by Jeff Krichmar, UCI cognitive scientist, is featured in the Daily Pilot November 4, 2009


Kathy Rim is named 2009-10 Fletcher Jones Foundation Fellow

Award recognizes academic excellence and carries $20,100 prize


Freemasonry: fact vs. fiction

UCI's Lilith Mahmud discusses the society's portrayal in a hit novel and reveals its 'best-kept secret'


Iverson receives Society for Mathematical Psychology Best Paper Award

Honor recognizes work in theoretical psychophysics


Jerry Brown visits UCI

State attorney general and former governor talks about what he’d do to improve education


Social Sciences standout scholar Sarah Michiko Barber

2009 recipient of the Carole Creek Bailey Social Sciences Undergraduate Award for Excellence in Sociology


UCI researcher receives grant to study U.S. immigrant health

Funding provided by National Institutes of Health “GO” program


UCI cognitive scientist studies how background noise helps and hinders hearing

Findings will help explain how we separate and hear sounds in an acoustically cluttered world


Unsolved mysteries

Professor Barrett is searching for answers to one of philosophy and physics’ deepest mysteries


Understanding the human mind is focus of two new graduate fellowships in Social Sciences
Academics seek to put a human face on undocumented Hispanic immigrants

Leo Chavez, anthropology and Chicano/Latino studies professor, is quoted in Feet in 2 Worlds, on October 19, 2009


State GOP tries to steal Dems' fire over water

Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies department chair and political science associate professor, is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on October 19, 2009


UCI report says small businesses face heavy burden

David Neumark, economics professor, is featured in the OC Metro on October 16, 2009


Invisible immigrants

Research by sociology professor Judith Treas sheds light on foreign-born seniors in the U.S.


Cities can't bank on small businesses for stable economic partnerships

UCI co-author says study validates efforts to attract and retain corporate headquarters


Pitfalls and unintended positives of going global

New book takes a comparative look at the impact of global trade on the local economies and government responsiveness in China, France and Mexico