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In celebration of Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month, we spotlight two outstanding alumni whose efforts are helping us build our Dean's Leadership Society, Women of the Dean's Leadership Society and Alumni Network.
 

Danika Wong
 
 
featured:
Paying it forward
 
Danika Wong '06, international studies and political science, is fueling growth of the Social Sciences Alumni Network and Women of the Dean's Leadership Society

 
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Howard Hsieh
 
 
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Global entertainment insider
 
How Howard Hsieh '95, political science, vice president of business strategy and development at Paramount Pictures, stays connected with his alma mater as a founding member of the Dean's Leadership Society

 
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Leo Chavez
 
 
UC Irvine's Leo Chavez elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
 
Renowned anthropologist studies international migration, particularly among Latinos
 
 
Tobar and Betancourt
 
 
Héctor Tobar and Roland Betancourt are named 2023 Guggenheim Fellows
 
UC Irvine scholars are among 171 recipients of the prestigious award
 
 
 
Kristin Turney
 
 
Understanding the toll of COVID-19 on incarcerated individuals
 
UCI sociologist Kristin Turney receives $510,000 National Science Foundation grant to provide nation's first systematic accounting of pandemic-related deaths in U.S. prisons
 
 
Edward Kenneth Lazaro Nadurata
 
 
Nadurata receives Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship
 
Funding award supports the global and international studies graduate student's work on emerging eldercare economy and its impact on the lives of older Filipinos
 
 
 
Raul Fernandez
 
 
Fernandez earns distinguished UC-wide emeriti award
 
Panunzio prize recognizes research and scholarly excellence since retirement
 
 
 
Long Bui
 
 
Dedicated to student success
 
UCI global and international studies associate professor Long Bui receives Tom Angell Fellowship
 
 
 
Liebersohn and Erel
 
 
Liebersohn and Erel honored for groundbreaking research on underrepresented entrepreneurship and business ownership
 
2023 Bradford-Osborne Research Award spotlights the economists' study on the positive side of using FinTechs to provide relief payments to underrepresented business owners during COVID
 
 
Kanagui-Munoz and Martinez
 
 
Outstanding LEADers
 
Kanagui-Muñoz and Martínez from social sciences honored at annual LEAD award ceremony
 
 
 
Diana Lavery
 
 
Mapping her career path
 
How Diana Lavery '06, M.A. '08 leverages skills from UCI's Demographic and Social Analysis program
 
 
 
Mike McBride
 
 
Coaching Youth Baseball and Softball with Sabermetrics
 
Book by UCI economics professor Michael McBride breaks down applied sabermetrics in an easy-to-use, no-math-required guide for assessing, developing and advancing youth players and teams
 
 
EcoGovLab
 
 
ICYMI: Reflecting on Earth Day 2023
 
Perspective from EcoGovLab's UCI social scientists
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Jacqueline Burns

Opinion: The violence in Sudan is partly our fault

Jacqueline Burns, UCI political science Ph.D. student, explains in this guest essay for The New York Times, which also ran in The Hill and Letters from an American.
 
Tony Smith
 
Smith on reproductive
rights
 
Healthline
 
Barbara Sarnecka
 
Sarnecka on rejection
parties
 
New York Times
 
 
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
money
 
Marketplace
 
David Neumark
 
Neumark on
ageism
 
Wall Street Journal
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
MAY
 
   
 
Disease, Disparities, and Development: Evidence from Chagas Disease Control in Brazil
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | featuring Jon Denton-Schneider, Clark University
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
MAY
 
   
 
Neighborhood Context, Everyday Exposure to Poverty, and Health among Older Adults
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required) | featuring Erin York Cornwell, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University
 
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
MAY
 
   
 
What Matters to Me and Why
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Hybrid (Zoom + Humanities Gateway, Room 1030) | featuring Glenda Marisol Flores, Associate Professor, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
MAY
 
   
 
An Interdisciplinary Historical Pathway: A Presentation and Discussion of Boyle Heights: How a Los Angeles Neighborhood Became the Future of American Democracy
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1010 | featuring George J. Sanchez, Professor of American Studies, Ethnicity and History, University of Southern California
 
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
MAY
 
   
 
Political Cleavages and Changing Exposure to Global Warming
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | featuring Helen Milner, Professor School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
 
 
 
 
 
 
04-05
 
MAY
 
   
 
All-UC Demography Conference
 
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
MAY
 
   
 
They define the world differently: Decolonization and the Making of the New African Woman
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | featuring Rudo Mudiwa, Department of Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of California, Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
MAY
 
   
 
Sociology Honors Info Session
 
1:00-2:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
MAY
 
   
 
Interventions from a Higher World: Friedrich Zollner, Georg Cantor and Cultures of Science in Late 19th-Century Germany
 
9:30-11:00 a.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | featuring Diethard Sawicki, Senior Acquisitions Editor for History/Slavic and Eurasian Studies at Brill Publishers (Leiden/Boston)
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
MAY
 
   
 
Jackknife Standard Errors for Clustered Regression
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | featuring Bruce Hansen, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
MAY
 
   
 
The Impacts of Obstetric Care on Maternal and Child Health: Evidence from Rural Obstetric Unit Closures in the US
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | featuring Heather Royer, UC Santa Barbara
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
MAY
 
   
 
The Race Between Education, Technology, and the Minimum Wage
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Jonathan Vogel, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
11-12
 
MAY
 
   
 
Thinking Through Events: Media, Power and Everdaylife UCI-CUHK Joint Conference
 
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Rooms 1517 and 3323
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
MAY
 
   
 
Why is there Conflict? Rationalist Approaches and their Discontents
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | Stergios Skaperdas, Department Economics and Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies, University of California, Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
MAY
 
   
 
Objectivity and Citizen Science
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777 | featuring Aleta Quinn, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Idaho
 
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
MAY
 
   
 
Distributed Learning for Kernel Mode-Based Regression
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | featuring Tao Wang, University of Victoria, Canada
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
MAY
 
   
 
Conference: The Life and Times of Coming of Age
 
9:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1002
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
MAY
 
   
 
Suffer the Little Children: Unaccompanied Child Migration in US History
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | featuring Anita Casavantes Bradford, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies and History, University of California, Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
MAY
 
   
 
Human Migration - Complex Dynamics and Ecological Transformations
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777 | featuring Gregorie Dupuis-McDonald, Visiting Research Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Salzburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
MAY
 
   
 
Search Routes in Mobile Commerce
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 | featuring Elisabeth Honka, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
MAY
 
   
 
Anthropology Undergraduate Ceremony
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
MAY
 
   
 
Economic Forum: What's a Bond Anyway and Why do I Care? - What's Next
 
5:00-6:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required) | featuring Nina Bandelj, Chancellor's Professor of Sociology and Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Development, UCI | Brian Leach, Executive Vice President, PIMCO | Jack Liebersohn, Assistant Professor of Economics, UCI | Roger Nieves, CFA, Member of the Board, Special Olympics for Southern California and Former Managing Director, PIMCO | moderated by Peter Trepp, UCI '88, UCLA Anderson MBA '98, CEO/Founder, Validiti Technologies, Inc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
MAY
 
   
 
The Circle, Indigeneity, and Healing: Rehumanizing Chicanx, Latinx, and Indigenous Men through Dialogue
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | featuring Juvenal Caporale, Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
 
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
MAY
 
   
 
Population and Welfare: The Greatest Good for the Greatest Number
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | featuring Pete Klenow, Stanford University
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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