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supply chain
 
 
 
Gustavo and Li
 
 
featured:
UCI Experts On: Supply chain
 
Gustavo Oliveira and Li Zhang, global and international studies, offer insight on the global supply chain crisis and alternative solutions for holiday spends
 
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Kristi Ryono
 
 
Zots to be thankful for
 
SPPS and education science major Kristi Ryono's attitude of gratitude has helped her thrive throughout her time at UCI
 
 
 
 
Pin-Chun Chen
 
 
The brain and sleep
 
Pin-Chun Chen, UCI cognitive sciences graduate student, studies how your brain stays busy while you snooze
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Damien Sojoyner and Yousuf Al-Bulushi
 
 
UCI to launch yearlong series on Black Reconstruction with funding from Mellon Foundation
 
Interdisciplinary project to show how 150-year-old themes remain relevant
 
 
Thoa Khuu
 
 
From refugee to Ph.D., Thoa Khuu is breaking barriers
 
Personal experience motivates UCI sociology graduate student's academic inquiry into the experience of children of immigrants
 
 
 
 
Anita Casavantes Bradford
 
 
Casavantes Bradford delivers keynote at inaugural George Floyd Social Justice Symposium
 
Talk at Texas A&M University-Kingsville available on YouTube
 
 
Michelle Thomas
 
 
Making her mark
 
UCI psychology undergrad Michelle Thomas receives inaugural Black Lives Matter Research Scholarship to advance understanding of Black, marginalized communities
 
 
 
 
 
 
Green campus
 
 
NSF funds UCI project to boost STEM degree success for underrepresented students
 
The Institute for Meaningful Engagement will emphasize faculty, classroom impact
 
 
Hector Tobar
 
 
Anthropology research with a very personal angle
 
Guided by her own experience as an international adoptee, UCI graduate student Shannon Bae is studying how the process can be demystified and made humane for reconnecting birth families with adopted children
 
 
 
 
Cailin O'Connor
 
 
O'Connor earns Philosophy of Science Association award for book on unfairness
 
Prize in Feminist Philosophy of Science recognizes the philosopher's book as best work in said category within past five years
 
 
Bill Maurer
 
 
What's next: Money
 
Bill Maurer, anthropology and law, on the complex role currency plays in our society, how our relationship to money continues to evolve, and what new forms money might take in the future, via the Chicago Humanities Festival
 
 
 
 
 
 
Moon and Bin Kashem
 
 
IGCC fellows Moon and Bin Kashem share their research, UCI experience as international students
 
Political science graduate students reflect on their work, life at UCI and more in this Q&A
 
 
Tim Bruckner
 
 
Bruckner receives grant to provide clarity on why women tend to live longer than men
 
CPIP co-director supported by $450,000 from the National Institute on Aging of the National Institutes for Health
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Judy Stepan Norris

U.S. workers have been striking in startling numbers. Will that continue? UCI sociology professor Judy Stepan-Norris gives perspective in this piece for The Washington Post.
 
Sabrina Strings
 
Strings on race, body image
 
Shape
 
David Meyer
 
Meyer on Occupy Wall Street
 
TIME
 
 
 
Valerie Olson
 
Olson on NASA
 
Space.com
 
Graeme Boushey
 
Boushey on voting
 
OC Register
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
DEC
 
   
 
A Fireside Chat with Fiona Hill
 
12:00-1:20 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Fiona Hill, Robert Bosch Senior Fellow, Center on the United States and Europe, Foreign Policy Program, The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C.
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
DEC
 
   
 
COVID, Racism and Critical Race Theory
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Chandra L. Ford, PhD, MPH, MLIS, Professor, Department of Community Health Sciences, and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Racism, Social Justice and Health, Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
DEC
 
   
 
Pronoun Trouble: Notes on Radical Gender Inclusion in English
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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