21st Century America
The school's award-winning programs in intercultural dialogue promote international awareness and support cross-cultural research. UC Irvine social scientists work to understand and impact America's place in the world, along with its changing politics, economy and society, with research on international affairs, comparative politics, cultural difference and global social movements.
Cognition and Computation
UC Irvine social scientists are at the forefront of creating robust measures and models of the brain, behavior and science itself, revolutionizing the study of machine learning, perception and memory, as well as contributing to new approaches in economics. Cognitive and computational approaches help understand the neurological and behavioral dimensions of decision, perception and communication.
New Economics
New fields being forged at UC Irvine provide new insight into old economic questions as well as the new circumstances of a globally interconnected and uncertain world. Research in anthropology, economics, philosophy and sociology is providing new insight into markets and economic models.
Population and Policy
With the new U.S. Census Data Center coming to the School of Social Sciences in 2013-14, the school's centers of excellence in economic policy and population science drive policy-relevant research on demographic change, immigration, employment and transportation in the United States and beyond.
connect with us