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Welcome home, Anteaters!
 
A fall message from Bill Maurer, UCI social sciences dean

 
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UCI LPS Summer Diversity Fellows and Administrators
 
 
UC Irvine's Logic and Philosophy of Science Summer Development Program marks fourth year of expanding access to graduate study
 
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the weeklong program brings students from around the world to explore graduate-level topics and connect with LPS faculty and graduate mentors
 
 
Public Scholarship Summer Institute participants
 
 
Undergraduates learn, preserve and share history through UCI's Public Scholarship Summer Institute
 
Program highlights Santa Ana-based El Sol Academy's story while advancing undergraduate student experience in research, writing, and community engagement
 
 
 
canoe in SST stairwell
 
 
Na'puti receives funding for Indigenous research and connections with the canoe at UCI
 
UC Irvine global and international studies associate professor Tiara Na'puti traces the history of a Samoan canoe on display in Social Sciences Tower to bring attention to the complex past and present of Indigenous Pacific Islanders in Southern California
 
 
CPIP group
 
 
New UC Irvine Center for Socially Engaged Philosophy aims to address real world problems
 
Research center is led by Cailin O'Connor, logic & philosophy of science Chancellor's Professor, and housed in the School of Social Sciences
 
 
 
Greg Hickok
 
 
Brain teasers in language research
 
Uncovering the hidden architecture of speech is the subject of Gregory Hickok's new book
 
 
Kevin Olson
 
 
Olson receives Charles Taylor Book Award for work on subordination and resistance
 
Honor from American Political Science Association's Interpretive Methodologies and Methods Group recognizes the best book that uses interpretive research methods
 
 
Research team headshots - Peters, Maniscalco, and Charles
 
 
Research team earns best article award from Psychonomic Society
 
UC Irvine's Megan Peters and Brian Maniscalco, along with Queen Mary University of London's Lucie Charles, honored for work on metacognition published in Psychonomic Bulletin & Review
 
 
 
Crystal Robertson
 
 
New faculty interview: Crystal Robertson
 
Assistant Professor, Political Science | Ph.D., UCLA
 
 
David Inman
 
 
New faculty interview: David Inman
 
Assistant Professor, Language Science | Ph.D., University of Washington
 
 
Beijie Ann Tang
 
 
UCI soc sci spotlight: Beijie Ann Tang
 
Newly appointed director of the UC Irvine Long U.S.-China Institute to drive research, scholarship and engagement
 
 
 
 
 
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-based pay. Check out some of our top hits, expert commentaries and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 
Erin Lockwood

Why are markets ignoring the obvious about America?

Erin Lockwood, political science, explores possibilities in this piece for Project Syndicate.
 
Mark Steyvers
 
Steyvers on
AI
 
Nature
 
Michael Tesler
 
Tesler on
civil rights
 
Good Authority
 
 
 
Gary Richardson
 
Richardson on
the Fed
 
 
New York Times
 
Velayudhan and Liebersohn
 
Liebersohn & Velayudhan on mansion tax
 
EdSource
 
Bob Uriu

How Trump's tariffs are affecting an Orange County matcha shop

Bob Uriu, political science, explains in this interview with KCBS/KCAL.
 
Laura Enriquez
 
Enriquez on
immigration
 
EdSource
 
David Neumark
 
Neumark on
minimum wage
 
The Hill
 
 
 
Matt Beckmann
 
Beckmann on
politics
 
HuffPost
 
Greg Hickok
 
Hickok on
speech
 
Psychology Today
 
 
 
 
mark your
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
06
 
OCT
 
   
 
Socialism at Altitude: Chinese Mountaineering and Mountaineering in China
 
4:00-5:30 p.m. | Hybrid: Zoom + Humanities Gateway, Room 1010

Maggie Greene, Associate Professor of History, Montana State University

 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
OCT
 
   
 
Generative Directions, Intersections, and Threads
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1030

Ana Patino, UCI Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program, and Paulina Raygoza, UCI Student Outreach and Retention Center

 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
OCT
 
   
 
Paletas Con Profesores
 
4:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Tower, Room 318
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
OCT
 
   
 
CPIP Seminar + Back-to-School Reception
 
12:30-1:45 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Michael C. Lens, Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, Luskin School of Public Affairs, UCLA

 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
OCT
 
   
 
Tianlong Jiao: Exploring the Wonder of the Terracotta Warriors
 
2:00-4:30 p.m. | Humanities Gateway, Room 1030

 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
OCT
 
   
 
SSARC Open House
 
3:00-3:50 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1230

 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
OCT
 
   
 
Inference in Neuroimaging and the Problem of Cognitive Ontology
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

Adina Roskies, Professor, Department of Philosophy, UCSB

 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
OCT
 
   
 
A Top-Down Perspective on Language Models: Reconciling Neural Networks and Bayesian Inference
 
11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 2112

Tom McCoy, Yale

 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
OCT
 
   
 
UCDC Info Session
 
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

Ellen Kern, UCDC Program Coordinator
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
OCT
 
   
 
An Evening with Richard Haass
 
5:00-6:00 p.m. | CALIT2 Auditorium and Atrium

Richard Haass, Veteran Diplomat and Respected International Relation Scholar
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
OCT
 
   
 
American Women Quarters Program: Vera Rubin
 
10:00-11:00 a.m. | Hybrid: Zoom Webinar + Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Christina Hess, award-winning illustrator and designer of the 2025 Vera Rubin Quarter; Jacqueline Mitton, Distinguished British astronomer, writer, and co-author of Vera Rubin: A Life; Karl Rubin, Distinguished Professor and Thorp Chair of Mathematics Emeritus at UC Irvine; Bill Maurer, Dean of the School of Social Sciences at UC Irvine, facilitating the discussion
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
OCT
 
   
 
Navigating Job Search by UCI Division of Career Pathways
 
2:30-3:20 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

Saira Fazli, Assistant Director of Career Education

 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
OCT
 
   
 
Contested Taiwan: Sovereignty, Social Movements, and Party Formation
 
4:00-5:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1511

Lev Nachman, Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of National Development, National Taiwan University
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
OCT
 
   
 
UCI Paul Merage School of Business One-Year Masters Info Session
 
11:00-11:50 a.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321

Admissions team from UCI Paul Merage School of Business
 
 
 
 
 
 
24
 
OCT
 
   
 
Social Systems and Their Micro, Meso, and Macro Interactions
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

Sally Haslanger, Professor, Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, MIT
 
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
OCT
 
   
 
Financial Literacy Workshop
 
12:00-12:50 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

Antonio Lopez, Financial Advisor
 
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
The New Language of Politics: Populism, Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Beyond
 
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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