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UC Irvine ranks among country's top 10 public universities for 11th year in a row in latest U.S. News roundup
 
Undergraduate programs in economics and psychology rated in nation's top 15 among public universities

 
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Campus Veterans Day ceremony 2024
 
 
featured:
Where scholarship meets service
 
Inside UC Irvine's Veterans Studies Certificate Program with cofounders Bill Maurer and Anita Casavantes Bradford, as featured in the Journal of Veterans Studies

 
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Center for Language, Intelligence & Computation
 
 
featured:
New UC Irvine Center for Language, Intelligence, and Computation to serve as hub for scientific study of language
 
Research center is led by Richard Futrell, language science professor, and housed in the School of Social Sciences

 
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Stacy Yung and Virginia Nguyen
 
 
Teaching the whole story
 
Through their contributions to the High School Ethnic Studies Resource Book and their nonprofit, Educate to Empower, UC Irvine alumnae Virginia Nguyen and Stacy Yung are reshaping how students see themselves
 
 
Santiago Campos-Rodriguez
 
 
Building bridges
 
UC Irvine economics Ph.D. candidate Santiago Campos-Rodriguez uses inside access to unique data from the Central Bank of Costa Rica for trade and labor research
 
 
Allison Morehouse
 
 
The mysteries of the mind
 
UC Irvine cognitive sciences Ph.D. student Allison Morehouse's lifelong curiosity drives her quest to understand how sleep shapes memory and cognition
 
 
 
Pharrell Allen
 
 
The electability gap
 
UC Irvine political science Ph.D. student Pharrell Allen combines political insight with a passion for research to examine how perceptions - not preferences - shape electoral outcomes for Black candidates
 
 
Kristen Kennefick
 
 
A life in learning
 
For UC Irvine anthropology Ph.D. student Kristen Kennefick, a love of learning has led to a life in academia and a commitment to helping others discover that same joy
 
 
Gvantsa Gasviani
 
 
Where global meets local
 
UC Irvine global and international studies graduate student Gvantsa Gasviani researches Russian exiles in Georgia
 
 
 
Jayla Camilla Pete
 
 
Jayla Kamilla Pete awarded Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change
 
Honor recognizes the triple major for academic promise and potential to enact change and improve the community
 
 
Qiewn Zheng
 
 
Teaching biology from a global perspective
 
Qiwen Zheng '22 brings an international perspective as Knowles Teaching Fellow
 
 
Nathan Bui
 
 
Bui awarded Moore Scholarship for Community and Social Change
 
Honor recognizes the political science and urban studies undergrad for academic promise and potential to enact change and improve the community
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Megan Peters and Lauren Ross

Why do science and philosophy so often stand apart - and what happens when they come back together?

Megan Peters, cognitive sciences, and Lauren Ross, LPS, dive in on this episode of the Mind-Body Solution Podcast.
 
Greg Hickok
 
Hickok on
speech
 
Psychology
Today
 
Sylvia Croese
 
Croese on
Angola
 
South China Morning Post
 
 
 
Laura Enriquez
 
Enriquez on immigration  
 
Spectrum 1
 
Michael Tesler
 
Tesler on public opinion
 
Good Authority
 
Beth Jarosz and Christopher Marcum

What the government shutdown means for federal information collections and data

Beth Jarosz, '07 DASA, and Christopher Marcum, '07 DASA, '11 sociology Ph.D., discuss in this piece for dataindex.us.
 
Wang Feng
 
Wang Feng on
China
 
The Hill
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
penny shortage
 
USA Today
 
 
 
David Meyer
 
Meyer on
protests
 
Chicago Tribune
 
Louis DeSipio
 
DeSipio on
Latino heritage
 
History
 
 
 
 
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29
 
OCT
 
   
 
Beyond Accuracy: How AI Metacognitive Sensitivity improves AI-assisted Decision Making | Walking the Line: Balancing AI Advice and Human Annoyance for Human-AI Complementarity
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring ZhaoBin Li and Lukas Mayer, Graduate Students, Department of Cognitive Sciences, University of California, Irvine

 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
OCT
 
   
 
Screening with Price and Data: Adverse Selection and Information Heterogeneity in Competitive Search Markets
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Qi Li, Penn State University

 
 
 
 
 
 
30
 
OCT
 
   
 
Youth Activism in Asia: From the Milk Tea Alliance of 2020-2021 to the Gen Z Protests of This Year
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Distinguished Professor, Department of History, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
The New Language of Politics: Populism, Authoritarianism, Fascism, and Beyond
 
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
03
 
NOV
 
   
 
Día de los Muertos
 
4:00-8:00 p.m. | Irvine Barclay Theatre

 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
NOV
 
   
 
Building a Timeline for Grad School
 
12:00-12:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Kristen Ahn, Director of Undergraduate Leadership and Community Programs

 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
NOV
 
   
 
Annual Eckstein Lecture: Democracy's Resilience to Populism's Threat
 
12:00-2:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Kurt Weyland, Mike Hogg Professor in Liberal Arts, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin

 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
NOV
 
   
 
Complexity, Entropy, and Statistical Mechanics
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

featuring Heather Demarest, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Colorado

 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
NOV
 
   
 
Finding the Perfect Internship
 
3:00-4:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222

 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
NOV
 
   
 
The Imperfect Union: Labor Racketeering, Corruption Exposure, and Its Consequences
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Miriam Venturini, UC Riverside
 
 
 
 
 
 
12
 
NOV
 
   
 
A Matter of Taste: A Unified Approach to Modeling Monopsony
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Fabian Trottner, UC San Diego
 
 
 
 
 
 
13-14
 
NOV
 
   
 
Celebration of the Life and Work of Ngugi wa Thiong'o
 
9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. | UC Irvine School of Humanities
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
NOV
 
   
 
Population Age Structure and Tree Cover Expansion in 139 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Sara R. Curran, Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecologyn

 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
NOV
 
   
 
Open or Closed? Source-Sharing Strategies in AI Competition
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218

featuring Yongmin Chen, University of Colorado Boulder
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
NOV
 
   
 
How Much Weak Overlap Can Doubly Robust T-Statistics Handle?
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218

featuring Jacob Dorn, Cornell University
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
NOV
 
   
 
Soc Sci 197: Getting Credit for Your Internship
 
1:00-2:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
NOV
 
   
 
Consumer Search, Market Power, and the Distributional Effects of Inflation
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Zach Bethune, Rice University
 
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
NOV
 
   
 
Violence and International Migration in Illiberal Times: The Case of El Salvador's Authoritarian Transformation
 
12:3-1:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132

featuring Jeffrey Swindle, Assistant Professor Criminology, Law and Society and Sociology

 
 
 
 
 
 
20
 
NOV
 
   
 
Framing the Future: Exploring Paths in Academia, Advocacy and Beyond
 
2:00-3:00 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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