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July Headlines   Monroe elected president of International Society of Political PsychologyThe International Society of Political Psychology has elected UC Irvine's Kristen Renwick Monroe its next president. Founded in 1978, the International Society of Political Psychology (ISPP) is the largest international society devoted to the study of political psychology in the world, with members from the Americas, Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Read on... Anthropology graduate students awarded James J. Harvey Dissertation Fellowships Anthropology graduate students Jennifer Chase and Robert Phillips have been awarded the James J. Harvey Dissertation Fellowship by the Office of Graduate Studies at UC Irvine. Awarded annually, the fellowship supports doctoral students conducting research on any aspect of the topic of homosexuality. Read on... Castellanos receives MENTOR award  Jeanett Castellanos '94, Social Sciences Academic Resource Center director and social sciences & Chicano/Latino studies lecturer, has won the American Psychological Association's Samuel M. Turner MENTOR award.
MENTOR stands for Minority Education, Nurturing, Training, Organizational advocacy and Research. The MENTOR award honors a psychology faculty member who has demonstrated a commitment to teaching and training clinical psychologists to work more effectively with ethnic minority clinical populations. The award will be presented at the Division 12 Awards Ceremony during the APA convention in San Francisco this August.
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Intel Research makes financial contribution to UC Irvine anthropology department The People and Practices Research group (PaPR) of Intel Research has made a substantial gift to the Department of Anthropology at UC Irvine to support research and conference activities for the 2007-08 academic year. This marks the second gift the Department has received from the Intel Corporation. Read on... Feliciano wins National Academy of Education fellowship  Cynthia Feliciano, assistant professor of Chicano/Latino studies and sociology, has been named a 2007-08 National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. The fellowship provides funding for her project "Gender and Ethnic Disparities in Early School Engagement among Children of Immigrants," which seeks to explain why minority males tend to be less engaged in school than their female counterparts by examining how family and school processes produce advantages for girls through the early years of schooling. Feliciano is one of twenty recipients selected from a competitive pool of nearly two hundred applications for the fellowship, which supports education research. Read on... Erica Vogel receives Pacific Rim Research Grant to study transnational families Erica Vogel, anthropology graduate student, has received a Pacific Rim Research Program grant for her project, "Families on the Move: Understanding the Social Networks of Transnational Families Between Peru and South Korea." For her research, Erica is spending the summer in Peru where she is studying dependent families of workers who travel to Korea in pursuit of employment. Specifically, Erica is examining the role of faith and family in the decision making process behind Peruvian migration to Korea for low monetary employment opportunities. Erica is a Social Sciences Merit Fellowship scholar and past recipient of the Department of Anthropology Summer Research Fellowship. Looking for something? Surprising number of neurons help find it, research shows  Cognitive scientists discover more of the brain helps eyes find what you're searching for A person searching for a ripe tomato at the grocery store is more likely to notice apples, strawberries and other red fruits as well, according to a new study that measured changes in blood flow in the brain. The researchers also discovered that more neurons are called into action to help the eyes find a particular object than has previously been documented. Read on... Varzi awarded fiction award for short story "Mashti"  Roxanne Varzi, anthropology assistant professor, has been awarded the 2007 Society for Humanistic Anthropology's Fiction Award for her short story, "Mashti." The SHA Fiction Award recognizes outstanding ethnographic and anthropological writing in alternative literary genres. In recognition of her work, Varzi will be honored at a special reception at the November 2007 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association, and her story will be published in Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly. Read on... Summer program teaches students advanced research and communication skills  The summer months at UC Irvine are rather calm in comparison to the hustle and bustle of student activity that goes on throughout the school year; the halls are quieter, the plazas nearly empty. A quick walk by room 1208 in Social Sciences Plaza B, however, yields a much different scene. Read on... Social Sciences in the News Government's helping hand also hurts David Neumark, economics professor, is quoted on American.com on July 5, 2007. Read on... Grass-roots lobby says it won't stop with vote Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies professor and department chair, is quoted in the OC Register on June 29, 2007. Read on... Crime is not up - so don't slam the immigrants Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured in the New York Daily News on July 9, 2007. Read on... My boss wants to "friend" me on my online profile Tom Boellstorff, associate professor of anthropology, is quoted in the Wall Street Journal on July 10, 2007. Read on... Council approves $280 million transit system Charles Lave, professor emeritus of economics, is qutoed in the Irvine World News on July 12, 2007. Read on... Clifton's changing face masks resentment Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is quoted in the Herald News on July 16, 2007. Read on... U.S. citizenship drives thrive Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies professor and department chair, is quoted in the Orange County Register on July 16, 2007. Read on... Legacy of a Maoist injustice A conference hosted by the Center for Asian Studies is featured in The Washington Post on July 18, 2007. Read on... Silent surge in contractor 'armies' Deborah Avant, international studies director and political science professor, is featured in The Christian Science Monitor on July 18, 2007. Read on... Getting immigration facts straight Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured in the Intelligence Report on July 18, 2007. Read on... Shear madness A study by Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is featured in the Village Voice on July 18, 2007. Read on... Immigrant parents struggle to keep their children bilingual Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is quoted in The Boston Globe on July 22, 2007. Read on... Sorry, someone's sitting here Calvin Morrill, sociology professor, is quoted in the OC Register on July 21, 2007. Read on... Coming of Age in Second Life Tom Boellstorff, anthropology professor, is interviewed by Metaversed on July 27, 2007. Read on... Her businesses fill community needs A study by Ruben Rumbaut, sociology professor, is referenced in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, on July 30, 2007. Read on... If you have a good idea for a feature story or would like to post a news item to the School of Social Sciences website, please contact your department manager or Heather Wuebker, hwuebker@uci.edu. |