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UCI to launch pre-health program with support from state of California
 
Multipronged training model will prepare more underrepresented undergraduates for careers in medicine

 
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Megan Peters
 
 
Expert on: The downstate
 
In our latest installment of the UCI Social Sciences ExpertsON series, cognitive scientist and sleep expert Sara Mednick breaks down upstate and downstate biological rhythms and activities that improve health and well-being
 
 
EcoGovLab at Santa Ana
 
 
UCI researchers are helping City of Santa Ana address environmental injustice
 
Read report of stakeholder meeting held in January involving UCI EcoGovLab and AirUCI
 
 
 
Rocio Rosales
 
 
Rosales is named a UCI Inclusive Excellence Professor
 
Honor includes funding for organizing and running faculty development initiatives and mentorship activities
 
 
Sanchez Hernandez and Campos
 
 
Campos, Sanchez Hernandez earn UCI Spirit Award to study emotional consequences of social mobility
 
Study will track how first-generation college students bridge changing identities and provide insight to help them thrive in the university
 
 
 
Peter Trepp
 
 
Tech entrepreneur and thought leader Peter Trepp '88, '98 MBA takes reins as chair of the UCI School of Social Sciences Board of Councilors
 
Leadership efforts will build upon the board's on-going mission, vision put in motion by successful tenure of outgoing chair Larry Kugelman who has been elected a UCI trustee
 
 
The Grovers
 
 
Creating a higher level of connection
 
Sharlene and Neel Grover '92 help build the UCI School of Social Sciences Women of the Dean's Leadership Society
 
 
 
 
Sojoyner and Al-Bulushi
 
 
ICYMI: Thinking with W.E.B. Du Bois about Reconstruction today
 
In honor of Black History Month, UCI social scientists Yousuf Al-Bulushi and Damien Sojoyner offer their perspective on post-Civil War history's contemporary relevance
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Anita Casavantes Bradford

Opinion: Re-humanizing the research university

Anita Casavantes Bradford, Chicano/Latino studies and history, weighs in via Inside Higher Ed.
 
Irene Vega
 
Vega on use of
force at the
border
 
San Diego
Union Tribune
 
Angela Jenks
 
Jenks on
student mental
health
 
Chronicle of Higher Education
 
 
 
Lauren Ross
 
Ross on social structural explanations
 
London School of Economics and Political Science
 
Richard Arum
 
Arum on
immersive
education
 
Chronicle of Higher Education
 
 
Kristin Turney

Getting back together...again

In this Valentine's Day piece for SAGE Perspectives, sociologists Kristin Turney, UCI, and Sarah Halpern-Meekin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, share their research on relationship churning and some of its challenges.
 
Sabrina Strings
 
Strings on
racism
 
Ms. Magazine
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
ChatGPT
 
Filene
 
 
 
Wang Feng
 
Wang Feng on population in
China
 
Wall Street Journal
 
Eric Swanson
 
Swanson
on recessions
 
 
Bankrate
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
MAR
 
   
 
Selective Learning: Why Militaries Adopt Operational Lessons but Leave Others Behind
 
12:30-1:45 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112 | Heidi Hardt, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Kristen Aanstoos, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
MAR
 
   
 
Spillover Effects of ADU Development
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Idil Tanrisever, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
06
 
MAR
 
   
 
Changemakers Speaker Series - Diversity in Syllabi: Determinants, Debates and Consequences for Graduate Students
 
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Hybrid (Zoom + Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517) | Heidi Hardt, Associate Professor of Political Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
MAR
 
   
 
The Effect of COVID Infection on Infant Health: Trends over the Course of the Pandemic
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Florencia Torche, Dunlevie Family Professor, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
MAR
 
   
 
Party Competition in Italy 2008-22: A Spatial Analysis
 
12:45-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1511 | Daniela Giannetti, Professor of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
MAR
 
   
 
Welfare for Workers and Migrants in Post-Socialism? China, Russia, Eastern/Central Europe, Former Soviet Union
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Dorothy Solinger, Professor Emerita, Political Science, UCI; Steve Crowley, Professor, Politics, Oberlin College; Linda Cook, Professor Emerita, Political Science, Brown University
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
MAR
 
   
 
SoCal Political Economy and Institutions Workshop
 
10:15 a.m.-3:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
MAR
 
   
 
How to Understand the Social Construction of Race
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777 | Alexander Franklin, Lecturer in Philosophy of Science, King's College London
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
MAR
 
   
 
Search Routes in Mobile Commerce
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | Elisabeth Honka, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
MAR
 
   
 
Financial Scarring and the Failure of the Freedman's Savings Bank
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Arthi Vellore, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
MAR
 
   
 
Police Contact, Stigma and Youth Social Context
 
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 5402 | Amanda Geller, Associate Professor of Criminology, Law and Society
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
MAR
 
   
 
What's the Use? Land Use Uncertainty, Real Estate Prices, and the Redevelopment Option
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | David Leather, Chapman University
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
MAR
 
   
 
Beyond the Democracy Debate: Patrimonialism as a Regime Type
 
5:00-6:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Stephen Hanson, Professor, Department of Government, William and Mary University, and Jeffrey Kopstein, Professor, Department of Political Science, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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