View in browser: socs.ci/jun2023

 
 
 
 
 
sbsg
 
 
 
Bill Maurer
 
 
featured:
Bill Maurer reappointed to additional five-year term as dean of UCI School of Social Sciences
 
New term will build on his decade of success helming UCI's largest academic unit

 
More
 
 
Gary Singer
 
 
featured:
UCI Foundation welcomes new chair Gary Singer '74 and 11 new trustees
 
The first alumnus (political science) to lead the board has enhanced many areas of campus

 
More
 
 
 
 
Action Plan
 
 
UCI social sciences pilot projects taking on racism
 
An update on funded works from inaugural grant recipients
 
 
woman sleeping
 
 
UCI-led study challenges belief that menstrual cycles negatively impact women's emotional states
 
Findings, published in the journal SLEEP, point instead to poor sleep as culprit for mood swings during menses
 
 
 
Picturing Financial Security photo exhibit
 
 
Picturing financial security
 
UCI Community Credit partners with non-profit Abrazar and PhotovoiceWorldwide to capture community stories of financial struggle, resilience in photographs
 
 
CPIP All-UC Demography Conference
 
 
Researchers from eight UCs converge on Irvine campus for deep dive on demography
 
System-wide conference hosted by UCI Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy
 
 
 
Samantha Vortherms
 
 
Expanding the field of political methodology
 
UCI political scientist Samantha Vortherms receives NSF CAREER award for study on globalization, establishment of summer research institute
 
 
Hellman Fellow
 
 
8 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2023-24
 
Grant program supports research by promising assistant professors
 
 
 
 
EPA video contest
 
 
Meeting the environmental justice challenge
 
UCI graduate students honored by EPA for bioremediation project video
 
 
Eve Darian-Smith
 
 
Darian-Smith receives book award for Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
 
Silver Medal from Independent Publishers recognizes her work on role of politics, economic decisions in global warming
 
 
 
Slander
 
 
Electronic duo
 
UCI poli sci alumni Derek Anderson and Scott Land are climbing to the top of the EDM world as Slander
 
 
Shelby Anderson
 
 
Bringing history to life
 
UCI alumna Shelby Anderson '18, '19 is selected as one of the winners of the Walt Disney 100th Anniversary Teacher Celebration
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Hector Tobar

Opinion: Latino workers are erased from a picture-perfect white world they help create

Héctor Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and literary journalism, explains courtesy of the Los Angeles Times (also ran in Yahoo News).
 
EcoGovLab
 
EcoGovLab on pollution
 
Voice of OC
 
Gary Richardson
 
Richardson on inflation
 
CNN
 
 
 
Brian Jenkins
 
Jenkins on economic utility
 
MoneyGeek
 
Sabrina Strings
 
Strings on
size bias
 
Insider
 
Eric Swanson

State of U.S. economy amid banking failures and debt ceiling debate

Eric Swanson, economics, explains in this interview with CNN's Rosemary Church (video).
 
Susan Brown
 
Brown on population
 
LA Times
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
loans
 
U.S. News
 
 
 
Jan Brueckner
 
Brueckner on tourism
industry
 
LA Times
 
Sara Mednick
 
Mednick
on napping,
memory
 
Inc.
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
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
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Immigration and Crime: Is the Relationship Nonlinear?
 
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

featuring Charis E. Kubrin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Mechanical Turkeys
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 777

featuring Gordon Belot, Lawrence Sklar Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, University of Michigan
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Adaptive Estimation of Intersection Bounds: A Classification
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218

featuring Vira Semenova, UC Berkeley
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Reshaping Gender Attitudes in India through Schools: An 8-Year Follow-Up Study
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Seema Jayachandran, Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
 
 
 
 
 
 
06
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Reputation and Word-of-mouth Communication
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218

featuring Malik Fakhar Ahmed, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
JUNE
 
   
 
CPIP Happy Hour Grant Meet Up #2
 
4:30-5:30 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Social Sciences Undergraduate and Master's Commencement Ceremony 1
 
12:45-2:45 p.m. | UCI Bren Events Center

featuring student speaker Jane Mary Sakr, '23 international studies
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
JUNE
 
   
 
Social Sciences Undergraduate Commencement Ceremony 2
 
5:00-7:00 p.m. | UCI Bren Events Center

featuring student speaker Kate Constant, '23 political science and history
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
JUNE
 
   
 
UCI Graduate Hooding Ceremony
 
5:30-7:30 p.m. | UCI Bren Events Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
uci soc sci
 
We are not your standard school. Like Peter, our beloved Anteater mascot, we're quirky and different. We're on a mission to create positive change in society, economies and human well-being by breaking down traditional barriers and pushing the limits in teaching, research and service. Doing so requires a different attitude, aim and set of actions.
 
Learn more about ours...