News 2023

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

August 24, 2023

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)

What a contest of consciousness theories really proved

August 24, 2023

Megan Peters, cog sci, Quanta Magazine, Aug. 24, 2023

If AI becomes conscious: here's how researchers will know

August 24, 2023

Megan Peters, cog sci, Nature, Aug. 24, 2023

Confidence in motion

August 23, 2023

Michelle Truong's journey from undergrad to graduate student, and how UCI gave her the confidence to tackle anything

In a hot job market, the minimum wage becomes an afterthought

August 23, 2023

David Neumark, economics, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, Aug. 23, 2023

L.A. might ban cashless businesses. Here's what's at stake

August 22, 2023

Bill Maurer, anthropology, Los Angeles Times, Aug. 23, 2022

The art of the power nap -- how to sleep your way to maximum productivity

August 22, 2023

Sara Mednick, cog sci, Entrepreneur, Aug. 22, 2023

If AI becomes conscious, how will we know?

August 22, 2023

Megan Peters, cognitive sciences, Science, Aug. 22, 2023

Bringing diverse voices, practices to the forefront of wildfire mitigation and research

August 22, 2023

UCI-led team receives funding from National Science Foundation to connect Indigenous communities with key decision makers in wildfire management

Consciousness beyond the human case

August 21, 2023

Megan Peters, cognitive sciences, weighs in via this feature piece in Current Biology

UCI Men's Volleyball summer journals

August 21, 2023

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