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Midterm election
 
 
Nov. 8 | Your vote counts!
 
Election Day is November 8, and every vote matters. Check out these five tips for getting up to speed on ballot issues, courtesy of the UC Newsroom. And learn where on campus you can cast and/or drop off your ballot here, courtesy of UCI Advocacy.
 
 
 
 
 
spotlight on
veterans
 
Ron Vaught
 
 
UCI's Top Gun alum
 
The Naval career of Ron Vaught '89 parallels the hit movies
 
 
Veterans panel
 
 
Nov. 9: Veterans' Financial Wellness
 
9:00 a.m. webinar featuring Chip Dykes, Vice President, Community Development, Chief Warrant Officer, USMC-Ret, Frontwave Credit Union, Oceanside, CA | Jeanine M. Gilson, Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, Office of Financial Management, Veterans Benefits Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs | Anthony Hernandez, President and CEO, Defense Credit Union Council | Lila Quintiliani, ChFC®, AFC®, Program Director, Financial and Benefits Education/Counseling, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) | hosted by Dean Bill Maurer, School of Social Sciences, UCI
 
 
UCI vets
 
 
UCI Veterans Studies Certificate Program
 
In 2019, the School of Social Sciences launched an undergraduate, multidisciplinary Veterans Studies Certificate Program open to both student veterans and non-veterans interested in critically analyzing the diversity and complexity of veterans' experiences, past and present
 
 
 
mark your
calendars
 
 
Nov. 7: State of the Economy
 
Noon webinar featuring Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Vice President of Macroeconomics Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Gary Richardson, Professor of Economics, UCI | Eric Swanson, Professor of Economics, UCI | moderated by Peter Trepp, UCI '88, UCLA Anderson MBA '98, CEO/Founder, Validiti Technologies, Inc.
 
 
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Nov. 17: Election in Review
 
5:00 p.m. hybrid in-person and webinar event featuring UCI political science professors Louis DeSipio, Marty Wattenberg and Heidi Hardt
 
 
 
featured
news
Sara Goodman
 
 
Pandemic Politics: The Deadly Toll of Partisanship in the Age of COVID
 
New book by Sara Wallace Goodman, UCI political science professor, examines role, consequences of politics in America's pandemic response
 
 
Minecraft
 
 
Using Minecraft to study sleep's role in memory
 
UCI-led research team finds night of rest improves performance on spatial memory - but not navigation - over same day using Minecraft
 
 
 
Eve Darian Smith
 
 
Darian-Smith wins McClung Lee Book Award for Global Burning: Rising Antidemocracy and the Climate Crisis
 
Work by global and international studies professor and department chair and law professor examines role of politics, economic decisions in global warming
 
 
Irene Vega
 
 
Generational impact of a college degree
 
UCI sociologist Irene Vega receives grant to disseminate her research on how a college education shapes cultural capital, status transmission among Latinx communities
 
 
 
Tim Bruckner
 
 
Neighborhood opportunity and child health
 
Tim Bruckner, public health professor and CPIP co-director, receives grant to study link between supplemental income program payments and child health outcomes
 
 
Kiazolu and Painter
 
 
Kiazolu and Painter receive Mellon Foundation/UC President's Postdoc support
 
Funding part of UC initiative to support young scholars whose research, teaching and service advance diversity and inclusion
 
 
 
Kate Simon
 
 
Closing the gap on sleep, depression, and memory
 
Katharine Simon, UCI Sleep and Cognition researcher, earns funding from NIH
 
 
Prerna Srigyan
 
 
Srigyan receives NSF award to study how political engagement shapes science educators, pedagogy
 
One-year funding will take the anthropology Ph.D. student to various sites around the U.S.
 
 
 
Nicholas Swink
 
 
The extra mile
 
UCI triple major Nicholas Swink secures life-changing internships assisting formerly incarcerated students in Orange County and working for the Executive Office of the President in D.C.
 
 
 
Zotting hands in the sunset by the beach
 
 
Meet ASUCI's social sciences student senators
 
Undergrad student government reps are working to enhance the quality of student life at UCI
 
 
 
campus sign
 
 
National Native American Heritage Month
 
November is National Native American Heritage Month. ICYMI, read more on Indigenous issues from social sciences and the UCI libraries
 
 
 
 
 
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 pay. Check out some of our top hits, self-authored pieces, and on-air interviews below, or visit us online for the full run down.
 
Kelly Fong

Mandatory reporting was supposed to stop severe child abuse. It punishes poor families instead.

Kelley Fong, sociology, weighs in via NBC News.
 
Kristin Monroe
 
Monroe on
manners
 
Times Now
 
Tiara Na'Puti
 
Na'Puti on
representation
 
NBC News
 
 
 
Richard Arum
 
Arum on
education
 
Inside Higher Ed
 
Brenda Nicolas
 
Nicolas on
Oaxacan culture
 
NPR
 
Roxanne Varzi

Iranian protesters are part of a worldwide fight for women’s rights

Roxanne Varzi, anthropology, offers insight courtesy of The Guardian.
 
Eric Swanson
 
Swanson on inflation
 
NBC News
 
Long Bui
 
Bui on
political ads
 
LAist
 
 
 
Belinda Campos
 
Campos on
cultural
preference
 
Sacramento Bee
 
Matt Beckmann
 
Beckmann
on
politics
 
OC Register
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
 
31
 
OCT
 
   
 
Multiway Emperical Likelihood
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Harold Chiang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
NOV
 
   
 
Economic Inequality and Social and Demographic Outcomes in China
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517

featuring Yu Xie, Bert G. Kerstetter '66 University Professor of Sociology and Director of Center on Contemporary China, Princeton University and Visiting Chair Professor of Center for Social Research, Peking University
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
NOV
 
   
 
An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-based Interventions on Children
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Diego Daruich, USC
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
NOV
 
   
 
Political Intolerance of Main Line Partisans
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 5206 

Kyle McWagner, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
NOV
 
   
 
Gaining Control by Losing Control
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Dongsoo Shin, Santa Clara University
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
NOV
 
   
 
State of the Economy: Recession, Interest Rates, International Events, and Politics
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Online Zoom Webinar 

featuring Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Vice President of Macroeconomics Research, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco | Gary Richardson, Professor of Economics, UCI | Eric Swanson, Professor of Economics, UCI | moderated by Peter Trepp, UCI '88, UCLA Anderson MBA '98, CEO/Founder, Validiti Technologies, Inc.
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
NOV
 
   
 
Public Goods Under Financial Distress
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 

Pawel Janas, Caltech
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
NOV
 
   
 
Veterans' Financial Wellness: Fostering Financial Stability for Those Who Have Served
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Online Zoom Webinar

featuring Chip Dykes, Vice President, Community Development, Chief Warrant Officer, USMC-Ret, Frontwave Credit Union, Oceanside, CA | Jeanine M. Gilson, Senior Advisor for Strategic Initiatives, Office of Financial Management, Veterans Benefits Administration, US Department of Veterans Affairs | Anthony Hernandez, President and CEO, Defense Credit Union Council | Lila Quintiliani, ChFC®, AFC®, Program Director, Financial and Benefits Education/Counseling, Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) | hosted by Dean Bill Maurer, School of Social Sciences, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
09
 
NOV
 
   
 
Advertising, Product Variety, and Growth
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Salome Baslandze, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
NOV
 
   
 
Why Have House Prices Risen So Much More Than Rents in Superstar Cities
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Zoom

featuring Christian Hilber, London School of Economics
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
NOV
 
   
 
A People's Guide to Orange County - Book Launch
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 

featuring Elaine Lewinnek, Professor of American Studies and Chair of Environmental Studies, California State University, Fullerton | Thuy Vo Dang, Assistant Professor of Information Studies, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
NOV
 
   
 
Megastudy Identifying Successful Interventions to Strengthen Americans' Democratic Attitudes
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Hybrid (Zoom + Social Science Plaza B, Room 5206) 

featuring Rob Willer, Professor of Sociology, Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Stanford University
 
 
 
 
 
 
14
 
NOV
 
   
 
Mostly Harmless Bayesian Econometrics
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Dale Poirier, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
NOV
 
   
 
28th Annual Margolis Lecture: The Ghost Budget: Paying for America's Post 9/11 Wars
 
12:30-1:45 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 

featuring Linda J. Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
 
 
 
 
 
 
16
 
NOV
 
   
 
The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth
 
 3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 3218 

featuring Marta Prato, Yale University
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
NOV
 
   
 
Regulation Creates Technology
 

3:30-5:00 p.m. | Hybrid: Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 and Zoom 

featuring Lilith Dieterich, Research Associate and Ph.D. Candidate, Goethe-University Frankfurt

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
NOV
 
   
 
In the Skin of the City: Spatial Transformation in Luanda, Angola - Book Launch
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 

featuring Antonio Tomas, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg
 
 
 
 
 
 
17
 
NOV
 
   
 
Election in Review
 
5:00-6:30 p.m. | Hybrid: Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 and Zoom 

featuring Louis DeSipio, Marty Wattenberg and Heidi Hardt, UCI Political Science Professors
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
NOV
 
   
 
Transitory Economic Shocks to Southern School Funding
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 

featuring Paul Lombardi, San Jose State University
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
NOV
 
   
 
Community of Peace: Performing Geographies of Ecological Dignity in Colombia
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100

featuring Christopher Courtheyn, Assistant Professor, School of Public Service, Boise State University
 
 
 
 
 
 
23
 
NOV
 
   
 
Does it Matter to Assume that U.S. Monetary Authorities Follow a Taylor Rule?
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Zoom

featuring Franck Portier, University College London

featuring Louis DeSipio, Marty Wattenberg and Heidi Hardt, UCI Political Science Professors
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
NOV
 
   
 
Can Community Policing Improve Police-Community Relations in Low-Income Countries?
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 

featuring Guy Grossman, UPenn Political Science
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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