According to new research by Frank D. Bean, sociology Chancellor’s Professor, pathways to legalization and citizenship appear to take on greater significance for overcoming disadvantages in Mexican American educational attainment than previously thought.

Tune in to KPFK 90.7 Sunday, Feb. 5 at 12:30 p.m. to hear UCI sociologist David Smith discuss inequality in America as part of the ongoing "Insighters" series.

Live streaming is available.

What causes genocide? Why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted? In her new book, Ethics in an Age of Terror and Genocide, political scientist Kristen Renwick Monroe sought answers to these questions through interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust.

Cynthia Feliciano, Chicano/Latino studies and sociology associate professor, and Jeanett Castellanos, Social Sciences Academic Resource Center director, are being honored by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) for their efforts in support of Latinos in higher education.

The Department of Economics Recruiting Seminar Series presents

"Demand for Deforestation in the Amazon"
with Eduardo Souza-Rodriguez, Yale

February 9, 2012
3:30-5:00 p.m.    
SOcial Science Plaza A, Room 3132   

This event is co-sponsored by UCI Environment Institute.

For further information, please contact Gloria Simpson, simpsong@uci.edu or 949-824-5788.

It boasts a 95 percent UCI graduation rate. More than two-thirds of its 350 alumni have graduated from or are currently enrolled in graduate programs, public policy and public health programs, law school and/or teaching credential programs at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, UCLA, University of Michigan, University of Washington, UC Irvine and other prestigious institutions.

On January 25, Mohamed El-Erian launched the inaugural lecture of the School of Social Sciences Dean's Distinguished Lecture Series. The CEO and co-CIO of Pacific Investment Management Co. (PIMCO), a Newport Beach-based investment firm which manages the world’s largest bond fund, El-Erian is a frequent commentator on the post-2008 financial crisis, the sovereign debt and Eurozone crisis, and political upheavals in the Middle East.

The roots of the South African Cape vineyards date back to the 1600s. A main stop along the international spice shipping route, the region’s climate and varying soil types proved to be excellent growing conditions for what was then a widely used remedy for scurvy: wine. Despite its rich heritage, it wasn’t until the late 1990s that the country’s vintage came to be recognized internationally alongside more established favorites.

Jon Sprouse, cognitive sciences assistant professor, has received the Linguistic Society of America’s 2011 Best Paper in Language award for “A Test of the Cognitive Assumptions of Magnitude Estimation: Commutativity Does Not Hold for Acceptability Judgments.” The honor recognizes the best paper(s) published in the society’s premiere journal, Language, in any given year

In Collective Killing in Rural China During the Cultural Revolution, UCI sociologist Yang Su presents a sobering reminder of the bloodshed that enveloped China more than four decades ago under the rule of the communist country's first leader, Mao Zedong.