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Paul and Jo Butterworth
 
 
Lauds & Laurels Awards:
UCI Lauds & Laurels 2023 to honor 24 accomplished Anteaters
 
Alumni couple Paul and Jo Butterworth to receive UC Irvine’s Extraordinarius award

 
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Michael Marckx
 
 
Lauds & Laurels Social Sciences Distinguished Alumnus:
Michael Marckx '87
 
Honor recognizes the avid cyclist, triathlete and Social Sciences Board of Councilors member for professional, community and university engagement

 
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Neel and Sharlene Grover
 
 
Lauds & Laurels Outstanding Alumni Athlete:
Neel Grover '92
 
Honor recognizes the former UCI Men's Tennis player for professional accomplishments, community and university engagement

 
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Steven Gong
 
 
Lauds & Laurels Outstanding Undergraduate Student:
Steven Gong
 
Honor recognizes the political science, economics, and human biology triple major for excellence in academics and campus and community service

 
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LPS Summer Diversity Fellows
 
 
Championing underrepresented voices
 
UCI's Logic and Philosophy of Science Summer Diversity Program closes out second year of its successful weeklong program focused on diversifying philosophy
 
 
NSF awardees
 
 
Bringing diverse voices, practices to the forefront of wildfire mitigation and research
 
UCI-led team receives funding from National Science Foundation to connect Indigenous communities with key decision makers in wildfire management
 
 
David Theo Goldberg
 
 
The War on Critical Race Theory: Or, The Remaking of Racism
 
New book by UCI Distinguished Professor of anthropology David Theo Goldberg exposes political aims, lasting impacts of attacks on CRT
 
 
 
Michael Lee
 
 
UCI-led team receives Luce Award for outstanding research in mathematical psychology
 
Honor recognizes cognitive scientists for mathematical modeling work on Alzheimer's disease and human memory
 
 
Sholeh Wolpe
 
 
Finding your inner firefly
 
Sholeh Wolpé, UCI social sciences writer-in-residence, shares how literature has illuminated her life's journey
 
 
Meymuna Hussein-Cattan
 
 
A taste of empowerment
 
CNN 'Hero' Meymuna Hussein-Cattan '09 helps refugees and immigrants resettle in SoCal
 
 
 
 
Valentina Toledano
 
 
True grit
 
Valentina Toledano, UCI first-gen undergraduate political science and language science double major, embodies the Anteater spirit
 
 
Michelle Truong
 
 
Confidence in motion
 
Michelle Truong's journey from '23 poli sci undergrad to philosophy, political science, and economics grad student, and how UCI gave her the confidence to tackle anything
 
 
Men's Volleyball players Flexen, Tangutur and D'Arcy
 
 
UCI Men's Volleyball summer journals
 
Enjoy an inside summer look at UCI men's volleyball through the eyes of international studies major Nolan Flexen and fellow teammates Akhil Tangutur and William D'Arcy
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Megan Peters

Consciousness beyond the human case

Megan Peters, UCI cognitive scientist, weighs in via this feature piece in Current Biology (also ran in Nature, Science, Quanta Magazine, and Vocal Media).
 
Hector Tobar
 
Tobar on a shifting California
 
The New York
Times
 
Kelley Fong
 
Fong on
child welfare
 
Hartford
Courant
 
 
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
money

 
LA Times
 
Manchak, Weatherall
 
Manchak, Weatherall on simplifying science
 
SciTechDaily
 
striking workers, courtesy of AP

Waves of strikes rippling across the US seem big, but the total number of Americans walking off the job remains historically low

Judith Stepan-Norris, UCI sociologist, and Jasmine Kerrissey, UCI sociology Ph.D. '12 and University of Massachusetts Amherst sociologist, explain in this piece for The Conversation (also ran in Yahoo News and UPI).
 
David Neumark
 
Neumark on
minimum wage
 
New York Times, Seattle Times
 
Sara Mednick
 
Mednick on
napping
 
Entrepreneur

 
 
 
Jozef Robles
 
Robles on navigating the path to legal status
 
Contexts
 
Allison Lim
 
Lim on
her career in the capitol
 
Capitol Weekly
 
 
 
 
mark your
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
OCT
 
   
 
UC Irvine & PEN America Free Expression Student Summit at UC Irvine
 
10:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m. | Save the date! Details to follow.
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
OCT
 
   
 
Sholeh Wolpe reading of new book Abacus of Loss
 
4:00-6:00 p.m. | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517
 
 
 
 
 
 
25
 
OCT
 
   
 
Banned! A Panel Discussion on Book Bans, Censorship, and Citizenship
 
5:30-7:00 p.m. | Save the date! Details to follow.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
uci soc sci
 
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