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Welcome back
 
 
 
Soc sci PAAs welcome our new freshman class
 
 
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Welcome back, Anteaters!
 
A message from dean Bill Maurer. Plus, keep your eyes on your inbox for a Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month special feature coming soon from the social sciences.
 
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Melissa Molina
 
 
Labor of love
 
With three majors, two jobs, and a passion for labor organizing, UCI undergrad Melissa Molina finds a "weird upside" in the pandemic
 
 
 
 
NSF Convergence
 
 
A multi-faceted approach
 
UCI-led team receives $750,000 from National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator to study and stop spread of mis-, disinformation in the financial services industry
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Josue Ruedas
 
 
Turning experience into action
 
UCI undergrad Josue Ruedas, Chicano/Latino studies and political science, is using his time as an Anteater to advocate for communities of color and train for a legal career
 
 
Berna Idriz
 
 
Berna Idriz wants to save the planet - and she's got a pretty good start
 
The '20 international studies and political science alumna credits her UCI experience for helping her land a coveted fellowship, a full-time dream gig, and the opportunity to co-write a presidential candidate's climate platform
 
 
 
 
Heidi Hardt
 
 
The consequences of women's underrepresentation in academia for graduate students' attitudes and retention
 
UCI-led study in PLoS ONE finds gendered syllabus representation, role models increase self-efficacy of some groups while diminishing confidence of others
 
 
CPIP
 
 
UCI Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy receives funding boost
 
UCI Program in Public Health joins social sciences, Office of Research in supporting interdisciplinary research center with a policy purpose
 
 
 
 
 
 
Jeff Kopstein
 
 
Kopstein receives U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Ina Levine Invitational Fellowship
 
Honor supports in-residence D.C. stay while he completes his new book on anti-Jewish violence across key points in history
 
 
9/11
 
 
How 9/11 changed America
 
UCI scholars offer insights into how the terrorist attacks continue to impact health, travel, politics and the media
 
 
 
 
Adam Cook and Luis Fonseca
 
 
Staff service
 
14 social sciences staff members honored for career milestones, two - Adam Cook and Luis Fonseca - awarded Leinen Service recognition for fostering excellence, innovation and community
 
 
Doug White
 
 
In memoriam: Douglas White
 
UCI anthropology professor emeritus | 1942-2021
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Salvador Zarate

Salvador Zarate, anthropology, sheds light on the crews of migrant Latinx workers that bring deep environmental knowledge to stop destructive fires at the wildland-urban interface in this piece for Sapiens.
 
Samar Al-Bulushi
 
Al-Bulushi on
Africa
 
Al Jazeera
Podcast
 
Etel Solingen
 
Solingen on global supply chain
 
IGCC
Podcast
 
 
 
David Meyer
 
Meyer on
Occupy
Wall Street
 
Marketplace
 
Eleana Kim
 
Kim on
international adoptee rights
 
New York Times
 
Samantha Vortherms

U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods didn't bring companies back to the U.S., new research finds.

Instead, write Samantha Vortherms, poli sci, and Jiakun Jack Zhan, tariffs resulted in collateral damage to the U.S. economy. Read on courtesy of The Washington Post.
 
Melissa Wrapp
 
Wrapp on
credit unions
 
Credit Union
Times
 
Louis DeSipio
 
DeSipio on
recall
 
Spectrum
News 1
 
 
 
Daniel Stehr
 
Stehr on
vocal appeal
 
Phys.org
 
Jeff Kopstein
 
Kopstein on
mandates
 
The Hill
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
SEPT
 
   
 
New Books, New Voices: A Virtual Conversation with the Authors
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring authors Elizabeth B. Schwall, Assistant Professor of History, Northern Arizona University and Michael J. Bustamante, Associate Professor of History and Chair in Cuban-American Studies, University of Miami | moderated by Anita Casavantes Bradford, Associate Professor, Chicano/Latino Studies and History, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
28
 
SEPT
 
   
 
Photographic Encounters: Visual Technologies and Missionary Modernity in Republican China
 
2:00-3:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Joseph W. Ho, Albion College
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
SEPT
 
   
 
Combining Rules and Discretion in Economic Development Policy: Evidence on the Impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring David Neumark, Distinguished Professor, Economics, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
OCT
 
   
 
Generating Insights into the Origins of Health Inequalities at the Interface of the Biological and Social Sciences
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Thomas McDade, Carlos Montezuma Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow of the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
OCT
 
   
 
Social Sciences Faculty Development Institute
 
12:00-5:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
OCT
 
   
 
Margolis Lecture: Warriors and Citizens: US Civil-Military Relations after Afghanistan
 
12:30-1:45 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

Kori Schake, Senior Fellow and Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
uci soc sci
 
We are not your standard school. Like Peter, our beloved Anteater mascot, we're quirky and different. We're on a mission to create positive change in society, economies and human well-being by breaking down traditional barriers and pushing the limits in teaching, research and service. Doing so requires a different attitude, aim and set of actions.
 
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