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Seeing things differently

First year grad student studies working memory variations in visually impaired and sighted individuals

Graduate student Karen Arcos explored the UCI campus extensively before she arrived for her first quarter in the Department of Cognitive Sciences. She learned walking routes to labs and classrooms, and became familiar with identifying landmarks around campus - she even learned train travel. Many incoming students adopt a more casual, 'I'll figure it out' attitude, but for Arcos - who is totally blind - that wasn’t an option.

The National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow has faced many challenges to get to where she is today - that is, completing a prestigious Ph.D. program with a nationally renown fellowship under her belt. So taking these extra steps to prepare for her arrival at UCI was nothing out of the ordinary. Her research proposal to the NSF tackles one such challenge in particular - the decline of braille usage among the visually impaired. More...




news

UCI launches research institute devoted to effectiveness of antipoverty programs

Studies will explore long-term success of policies promoting economic self-sufficiency

Anteater padres

Student group provides Spanish-led informational panel for parents of aspiring anteaters

The future of higher education

UCI leaders share insights

boundaryless

Because solutions to some of society’s greatest challenges lie in our ability to break the mold


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upcoming events

Care/Cure/Corruption: A Dramatic Forum

Mar 3

Jumpstart for a Day: Spring Literacy Fair - Literacy through Music

Mar 5

Fireside Chat with Mohamed El-Erian, Chair, Global Development Council | Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz

Mar 7

Grad School to Google: Searching for, Getting and Negotiating a Non-Academic Position
March 1

Care/Cure/Corruption: A Dramatic Forum
March 3

Group Knowledge, Signals and Behavior
March 4

Jumpstart for a Day: Spring Literacy Fair - Literacy through Music
March 5

Fireside Chat with Mohamed El-Erian
March 7

Invisible Resistance and State Violence in Argentina, Serbia, and Liberia
March 10

The Credit Economy and the Economic Rationality of Science
March 11

SoCal QCA Workshop
March 17-19

Spring Break
March 21-25





in the media

LISTEN: Minority voters helped tip the scales in Nevada's Democratic caucus (Audio)

DeSipio, Southern California Public Radio


READ: The truth fiction tells

Varzi, anthropology associate professor, Stanford University Press Blog


READ: Ethnoracial diversity: Toward a new American narrative

Frank Bean, American Prospect op-ed


READ: How the 'Obama effect' helps Hillary Clinton, and hurts Bernie Sanders, with black voters

Tesler, Washington Post op-ed


LISTEN: Priorities collide at a high-performing NJ school district

Lee, WNYC (audio 16:30)


LISTEN: Jumpstart

Jumpstart, The Sound


As the costs of textbooks rise, professors help students find alternatives
Glazer, OC Register

The place where the poor once thrived
Lee, The Atlantic

O.C. diocese leading effort to naturalize 2.4 million immigrants
DeSipio, OC Register

Opinion: Polling Latinos has always been controversial
DeSipio, NBC News

Startup aims to unearth good consumer credit risks
Maurer, OCBJ

Minority voters helped tip the scales in Nevada's Democratic caucus (Audio)
DeSipio, SCPR

JumpStart (Audio)
Jumpstart, The Sound

Are Latino Democrats split over Sanders, Clinton? (Audio)
DeSipio, SCPR

Is there a 'daughter effect'? (Video)
Tesler, Fox 5

How important are the South Carolina primaries?
DeSipio, Aljazeera

How the 'Obama effect' helps Hillary Clinton, and hurts Bernie Sanders, with black voters
Tesler, The Washington Post

Political parties do represent their voters, but the degree of representation varies across issues and parties
Dalton, Deomcratic Audit

Ethnoracial diversity: Toward a new American narrative (op-ed)
Bean, The American Prospect

The truths fiction tells
Varzi, Stanford University Press Blog

A key reason young people don't support Hillary Clinton? They don't have daughters (op-ed)
Tesler, The Washington Post

Cubans stranded in Central America try to reach the U.S.
Casavantes Bradford, Aljazeera

Priorities collide at a high-performing NJ school district (Audio 16:30)
Lee, WNYC

For Charlie Baker, it's a matter of outreach - with a stash of luck
Anthropology, The Boston Globe

Lunar New Year: Garden Grove Mayor Bao Nguyen among Asian-American movers and shakers who make a difference in their communities
Nguyen (alumnus), OC Register

Clinton uses state links to raise $27 million
Wattenberg, Bloomberg and Yahoo! Finance

See you in the funny papers: women love comics about financial literacy
IMTFI researchers, The Guardian

Comics help women become super savers in India: see the pages
IMTFI researchers, The Guardian

Clinton misleads about partisan reaction during Reagan's term
Beckmann, My Atlantic Journal-Constitution


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