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dream fellow
 
 
Working to make dreams a reality
 
Campus fellowship program lets undocumented students gain career-related experience - and be compensated
 
 
 
 
sharon block
 
 
Increasing educational access and impact
 
UCI history professor Sharon Block donates $10,000 and spurs matching gift to support UC's first in-prison bachelor's degree program, an interdisciplinary initiative spanning four schools
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
weed abatement
 
 
Looking to new sources, solutions for fire prevention in Orange County
 
UCI anthropologist Salvador Zárate to document practices and expertise of weed abatement workers with funding from Haynes Foundation
 
 
veterans day
 
 
Veterans' voices
 
UCI is the nation's only top research university to offer a certificate program on those who've served in the military
 
 
 
 
 
 
davin phoenix
 
 
Cognitive decline distorts political choices, UCI-led study says
 
Disconnect found between political affiliation, political decisions in the cognitively impaired
 
 
 
 
louis desipio
 
 
UCI Podcast: OC election analysis and social justice under Biden
 
Louis DeSipio, Chicano/Latino studies and political science, discusses how mixed results of the last few years demonstrate Orange County's "purple" identity
 
 
 
 
amanda acevedo
 
 
The Simpatia Scale
 
New tool developed by UCI researchers measures variation in a uniquely Latinx cultural value
 
 
 
 
 
eve darian smith
 
 
Darian-Smith elected secretary of the Law and Society Association
 
Two-year term to begin in October 2021
 
 
 
virginia mann
 
 
In memoriam: Virginia A. Mann
 
Professor Emerita, Language Science, UC Irvine, 1953-2020
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
nina bandelj

What do parents owe adult children? Nina Bandelj, sociology professor, explains in this BBC podcast how children have gone from being economically useful to "priceless."

Listen in, courtesy of BBC.

 
vellore arthi
 
Arthi on COVID-19 long-run impacts
 
Bloomberg
 
sabrina strings
 
Strings on race and health
 
Well+Good
 
 
 
raul fernandez
 
Fernandez on Cándido Camero, Latin jazz
 
New York Times
 
louis desipio
 
DeSipio on Orange County's changing politics
 
LA Times
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
24
 
NOV
 
   
 
Scientific Conclusions Need Not Be Accurate, Justified, or Believed by their Authors
 
10:00-11:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Liam Kofi Bright, Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Logic, and Scientific Method, London School of Economics
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
DEC
 
   
 
Mothers, Children, and Early Child Care and Education in the U.S
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Robert Crosnoe, Rapoport Centennial Professor of Sociology, UT Austin
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
DEC
 
   
 
What Will the Trade War Mean for Class Politics?
 
4:30-5:45 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Yige Dong, SUNY Buffalo | Isabella Weber, UMass Amherst | Jake Werner, Boston University | moderated by Gustavo Oliveira, UC Irvine
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
DEC
 
   
 
Communicating and Community-Building: Working In, With, and Against Big Tech
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Mary L. Gray, Senior Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research and Associate Professor, Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, Anthropology, and Gender Studies, Indiana University
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
DEC
 
   
 
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity among UCI Graduate Students
 
2:00-3:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Tom Boellstorff, Professor of Anthropology, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
DEC
 
   
 
Exploring Logics of (Non)Violence in Sikh Thought
 
3:00-4:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Arvind-Pal S. Mandair, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
 
 
 
 
 
 
07
 
DEC
 
   
 
Problems of Democracy
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Stephen Goggin, San Diego State University
 
 
 
 
 
 
10
 
DEC
 
   
 
Persisting Inequalities and Paths Forward: A Report on the State of Undocumented Students at California's Public Universities.
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Laura E. Enriquez, Associate Professor of Chicano/Latino Studies, UC Irvine | Karina Chavarria, Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSU Channel Islands | Melissa J. Hagan, Assistant Professor of Psychology, San Francisco State University | Jennifer Najera, Associate Professor and Chair of Ethnic Studies, UC Riverside | Annie Ro, Associate Professor of Public Health, UC Irvine | William E. Rosales, Assistant Professor of Sociology, CSU Los Angeles | Heidy Sarabia, Associate Professor of Sociology, Sacramento State University | Zulema Valdez, Associate Vice Provost for the Faculty and Professor of Sociology, UC Merced
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
DEC
 
   
 
Surprises in Grad School: Things I Thought Would be Hard But They Turned Out to be Easy, or Vice Versa
 
5:00-6:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Canton Winer, Sociology, UCI | Paulina Silva, Cognitive Sciences, UCI | Lauren Montgomery, Cognitive Sciences, UCI | Elliott Chen, Logic & Philosophy of Science, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
DEC
 
   
 
Building Race as an Analytic into Anthropology, Within and Outside the Academy
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Sareeta Amrute, Director of Research, Data and Society
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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