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lunar new year
 
 
 
year of the ox
 
 
featured:
Lunar New Year 2021
 
Join us on Feb 8 in a virtual celebration of the Lunar New Year!
 
Learn more and register...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
igor bobic
 
 
Igor Bobic '10 takes a front-row seat to political history
 
UCI political science alumnus caught historic footage of Jan 6 insurrection at the Capitol while reporting for the Huffington Post
 
 
 
 
francesca polletta
 
 
Moving forward
 
Book by UCI sociologist Francesca Polletta explains how we can find our way back from political polarization without having to become friends first
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
patience and pandemic
 
 
UCI students publish book about life under quarantine
 
Patience and Pandemic is a collection of photos, essays and poems
 
 
ken marlin
 
 
Life in the fast lane
 
UCI alumnus Ken Marlin '79 reflects on his fast track from the Marines to UCI to Wall Street
 
 
 
 
carole uhlaner
 
 
Pandemics and protests
 
UCI political science professor Carole Uhlaner receives Russell Sage Foundation funding to study what moves individuals to participate in collective action
 
 
kroll and sojoyner
 
 
Kroll and Sojoyner receive Spirit Awards from Office of Inclusive Excellence
 
Social scientists are among 10 UCI teams to receive funding that supports the office's mission to advance inclusive excellence on campus
 
 
 
 
 
 
malak kudaimi
 
 
UCI celebrates the first prestigious scholarship recipient of the New Year
 
Alumna Malak Kudaimi named 2021-22 Marshall Scholar
 
 
 
 
matt harding
 
 
Harding named a 2021 Faculty Innovation Fellow
 
Recognition from UCI Beall Applied Innovation includes stipend, entrepreneurial engagement opportunities
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
soc sci
in the media
 
Social sciences faculty and graduate students are consistently sought by media for their expertise in areas ranging from digital play to gender pay. Check out some of our top hits, self-authored pieces, and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 
danielle thomsen

A record number of women are serving in Congress. That’s good news for constituents, says UCI political science professor Danielle Thomsen in a recent op-ed. "Studies at both the state and federal levels find that women are more active and productive than their male counterparts on a variety of policy-related activities …. But our recent study shows that women stand out in another area as well: constituent service."

Read on in The Washington Post.
 
long bui
 
Bui on Vietnamese Americans and politics
 
The Conversation
 
davin phoenix
 
Phoenix on race and emotional responses to politics
 
Washington Post
 
 
 
sabrina strings
 
Strings on diet culture
 
Good Housekeeping
 
tom boellstorff
 
Boellstorff on Zoom fatigue
 
Inverse
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
JAN
 
   
 
Funding Graduate Student Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
 
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Nina Obiedo, Contracts and Grants Manager, Social Ecology, UCI; Jin Chae, Contracts and Grants Manager, Social Sciences, UCI; and Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, Social Sciences, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
JAN
 
   
 
Through the Partisan Looking Glass: The Social Psychology of Political Polarization
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Peter Ditto, Professor, Department of Psychological Science, School of Social Ecology, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
JAN
 
   
 
Funding Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences
 
2:00-3:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, Social Sciences, UCI and Marge Brannon, Executive Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
FEB
 
   
 
Chico and Rita: Film Discussion
 
4:00-6:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Raul Fernandez, Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
FEB
 
   
 
Fright and the End of Community: Psychic, Spiritual, and Physical Borders between Yemen and Saudi Arabia
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Ashwak Hauter, Ph.D., University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Anthropology, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
Public, Open/Libre, Commons: Cultures of Liberation and the Liberation of Culture in Anthropology
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Alberto Corsin Jimenez, Reader, Department of Social Anthropology, Spanish National Research Council, Madrid
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
FEB
 
   
 
Introduction to NSF Funding
 
1:00-2:15 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, Social Sciences, UCI (and former NSF program director)
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
FEB
 
   
 
Lunar New Year 2021
 
4:30-7:30 p.m. | online (pre-registration required)
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
FEB
 
   
 
Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Medicine in the United States
 
4:30-5:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Tamara Venit-Shelton, Claremont McKenna College and Mei Zhan, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
FEB
 
   
 
Addressing Slavery: "The Revolution Will Not Be Theorized: Cultural Revolution in the Black Power Era"
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Errol A. Henderson, Associate Professor of International Relations, Pennsylvania State University
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
FEB
 
   
 
In memoriam: Frank Cancian, Documentary Photographer and Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, UC Irvine | 1934-2020
 
3:00-4:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
FEB
 
   
 
What Does Social Change Look Like?
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Angela Russell, Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, CUNA Mutual Group
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
FEB
 
   
 
Parenting in Grad School
 
12:00-2:00 p.m. | online (pre-registration required)

featuring Jessica Gonzalez, Logic & Philosophy of Science, UCI; Monica De Roche, UCI; Kyle McWagner, Political Science, UCI; Prince Paa-Kwesi Heto, Political Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
FEB
 
   
 
Love, Dating and Romance in Latinx Communities
 
12:00-1:15 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Jazmin Muro, Regis University and Laura Enriquez, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
FEB
 
   
 
Advancing Equity for Undocumented Students and Students from Mixed-Status Families at the University of California
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | online (pre-registration required)

featuring Laura E. Enriquez, Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies at UC Irvine; Ignacio Alarcón, Assistant Director of the AB540 and Undocumented Student Center at UC Davis; Cecilia Ayón, Professor of Public Policy at at UC Riverside; María Blanco, Executive Director of UC Immigrant Legal Services; Angela Chen, Director of the UCI Dream Center at UC Irvine; Jennifer Nájera, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies at UC Riverside; Annie Ro, Associate Professor of Public Health at UC Irvine; Zulema Valdez, Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Sociology at UC Merced
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
FEB
 
   
 
Decolonizing the University in Global/Transnational Perspective: A Roundtable Conversation
 
9:00-11:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
FEB
 
   
 
NSF Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant Workshop
 
10:00-11:15 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, Social Sciences, UCI (and former NSF program director)
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
FEB
 
   
 
How NSF Makes Awards
 
12:00-1:15 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Holly Hapke, Ph.D., Director of Research Development, Social Sciences, UCI (and former NSF program director)
 
 
 
 
 
 
26
 
FEB
 
   
 
On Emergencies: Socializing and Institutionalizing in Crisis
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Federico Neiburg, Professor of Social Anthropology, Museu Nacional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
 
 
 
 
 
 
26-27
 
FEB
 
   
 
UCI Homecoming
 
all day | online (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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