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Testing limits

Soc sci commencement speaker encourages new graduates to push past their comfort zones

When asked what the takeaway from her upcoming commencement address will be, Aliza Asad has a simple yet profound answer.

"Take comfort in discomfort," she says. "It's an important step to using your perspective and identity to create some sort of meaningful impact on someone."

The international studies and public health policy double major has faced her fair share of challenging situations, including a move from Colorado to Anaheim Hills, CA halfway through her high school career. But she firmly believes that experiences like these have made her a more well-rounded and compassionate person. That's why in her commencement address - to be given at the 12:30 p.m. social sciences graduation ceremony on Friday, June 10 - she hopes to inspire her peers to embrace a little discomfort in their lives. More...




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Staff achievement

Social sciences graduate student affairs director John Sommerhauser, '77, creates a culture within the school that genuinely supports student success

A cut above

Sociology's Dana Moss named Lauds and Laurels Outstanding Graduate Student

Outstanding alumnus

Serving as the 8th U.S. Ambassador to the Ukraine, Geoffrey Pyatt, '85, exercises international diplomacy skills born at UCI

Treas named UCI Chancellor's Professor

Honor recognizes sociologist's research contributions

In memoriam: Christian Werner

Christian Werner, UCI professor emeritus and former social sciences dean, dies at 81

From the ground up

Chicano/Latino studies assistant professor teams up with her academic mentors from grad school to host conference on gender and migration





upcoming events

Expectations Lost: What's Next for the 2016 Election?

May 11

Talking with our Past in the Future: From the Holocaust to Digital Interactive Holography

May 18

Kiang Lecture: How Did China Get So Big? Redefining the Realm and its Subjects, ca 1680-1850

May 26

America's Smartest Neighborhood? A Demographer Explores University Hills, the Nation's Largest On-Campus Faculty Housing Complex
May 3

Conversation on Conflict and Dialogue
May 4

Women Cross the DMZ: A Roundtable on Peacebuilding in the 21st Century
May 5

A Hypersequent Approach to Modal Logic
May 6

Memorial Celebration for Christian Werner
May 10

Membership Has Its Privileges: Status Incentives and Categorical Inequality in Education
May 10

Expectations Lost: What's Next for the 2016 Election?
May 11

The Latinos Studies Program at Casa De Las Americas: A Unique Vision
May 11

Peaceland: Conflict and Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention
May 12

Islands and Ghosts: Northeast Asian Pasts That Would Shape the Future
May 12

The Scientific Berkeley Workshop
May 13

Poor China, Rich China: Poverty, Wealth, and Inequality
May 13

OTI 5th ANNUAL GALA: Global Perspectives from a Foreign Correspondent: Terrorism, Diplomacy, Immigration and Prospects for the Future
May 15

The New 3rd Generation: Post-1965 Immigration and the Next Chapter in Assimilation
May 17

Talking with our Past in the Future: From the Holocaust to Digital Interactive Holography
May 18

What's Empathy Got to do with it? The Challenges of Empathy for Conflict Transformation
May 19

Theories of Knowledge: Philosophical and Scientific
May 20

UCI Stories: 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
May 23

Skyrms Was Almost Right About Deception
May 24

Kiang Lecture: How Did China Get So Big? Redefining the Realm and its Subjects, ca 1680-1850
May 26

Is it About Islam? How to Talk Responsibly About Religious Conflict
May 26





in the media

Do women face age discrimination in the job market? Absolutely. Here's proof (op-ed)

Neumark on age discrimination, courtesy of the Los Angeles Times


The trial of Peter Liang and confronting the reality of Asian American privilege (Opinion)

Kim on the reality of Asian American privilege via The Los Angeles Times


The case against reality

Hoffman on perception and reality in The Atlantic


Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on front of $20 bill; 5 women to join Alexander Hamilton on $10 bill (Video)

Maurer on the face of the new $20, courtesy of KTLA5


Terrorism carves division between Morocco and Europe (Audio)

Norman on Moroccan migration via WNYC


The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Video)

Kopstein on issues facing the EU and and its future, courtesy of TVO


Do women face age discrimination in the job market? Absolutely. Here's proof (op-ed)
Neumark, Los Angeles Times

The Harriet Tubman $20 and other faces on money show how we want to remember history
Maurer, Los Angeles Times

The case against reality
Hoffman, The Atlantic

Change for the $20: Tubman to go on bill
Maurer, The Orange County Register

The evolutionary argument against reality
Hoffman, Quanta Magazine

The trial of Peter Liang and confronting the reality of Asian American privilege (Opinion)
Kim, The Los Angeles Times

Can California save the race for Bernie Sanders? Probably not. Here's why. (Audio)
DeSipio, Southern California Public Radio

Harriet Tubman to replace Andrew Jackson on front of $20 bill; 5 women to join Alexander Hamilton on $10 bill (Video)
Maurer, KTLA5

Terrorism carves division between Morocco and Europe (Audio)
Norman, WNYC

Four progressive minimum wage myths debunked
Neumark, Reason.com

The Minecraft generation
Ito, The New York Times Magazine, MSN

The Agenda with Steve Paikin (Video)
Kopstein, TVO

Democrats have lost their minds over the minimum wage
Neumark, The Week

How California's minimum wage law will help and hurt workers and consumers
Neumark, Examiner.com

Poll: Sanders closing gap in California but still faces long odds for nomination
DeSipio, The Mercury News, Boston Herald

$15 minimum wage follies in California and New York
Neumark, Reason.com

Catching up with Al Madrigal (Video)
Ruiz, Fox 5 Morning News

Where the 'Fight For $15' went wrong
Neumark, Fortune

The morality of unemployment
Neumark, The Wall Street Journal

California, New York to raise minimum wages to $15 an hour (Audio)
Neumark, NPR

Young adults doing kid stuff? It could be good for them - and society
Ito, The Globe and Mail (Canada)

Mythbusters: Political parties and democratic decline? (Opinion)
Dalton, 21st Century Parties

$15 minimum wage increase will affect 605,000 O.C. workers over seven years
Neumark, Orange County Register, Bloomberg

Minimum wage research
Neumark, Reason.com

Remember when The New York Times understood the economics of the minimum wage?
Neumark, Forbes

American anger: It's not the economy. It's the other party.
Tesler, The New York Times

How the $15 minimum wage went from laughable to viable
Neumark, The New York Times

California governor set to approve highest minimum wage
Neumark, The New York Times, CBS News, U.S. News & World Report, The Washington Post, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CBS Los Angeles, Voice of America, The Boston Globe, Southern California Public Radio


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