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new year
 
 
 
bill maurer
 
 
featured:
Reflection and resolutions
 
21derful things we're grateful for and looking forward to in the new year
 
Read on...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
empty shelves
 
 
The power of networks in a crisis
 
UCI researchers join forces with national team to study U.S. food supply chain disruptions and innovations due to Coronavirus closures
 
 
 
 
vellore arthi
 
 
UCI Podcast: COVID-19's long-term economic and health impacts
 
Early intervention can stave off pandemic's worst long-term effects, UCI economist Vellore Arthi says
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
granny flats
 
 
Are granny flats a solution for California's affordable housing shortage?
 
Study by UCI economics grad student Sarah Thomaz looks at potential and pitfalls of affordable dwelling units in Los Angeles County
 
 
uc promise
 
 
The state of undocumented students in California's public universities
 
New multi-campus study provides in depth look at the struggles and successes of the state's undocumented student population
 
 
 
 
megan peters
 
 
Advancing consciousness research
 
UCI cognitive scientist Megan Peters receives Templeton World Charity Organization grant to help early-career scientists secure NIH and NSF funding
 
 
sign language
 
 
Cognitive benefits of speaking while signing
 
UCI research fellow Anne Therese Frederiksen receives National Science Foundation funding to study brain responses to unique linguistic experience of individuals who are deaf and hearing who use sign language
 
 
 
 
 
 
associate deans for access
 
 
Joining forces to forge better futures
 
UCI School of Social Sciences and Center for Educational Partnership are collaborating to increase educational access for first-generation students
 
 
 
 
general campus
 
 
UCI and CDCR sign MOU to partner on new in-prison bachelor's degree program
 
Incarcerated students who meet requirements can earn B.A. in sociology
 
 
 
 
 
campus general
 
 
UCI social sciences counts 27 faculty among world's top researchers
 
Rankings, created by Stanford University, are published in PLOS Biology
 
 
 
 
hector tobar
 
 
The 10 best California books of 2020
 
The Last Great Road Bum by UCI professor Hector Tobar among the top picks in LA Times list
 
 
 
 
 
 
karen garcia art
 
 
Strength through adversity
 
How senior psychology major and FYRE scholar Karen Garcia has forged her own path
 
 
 
 
frank cancian
 
 
In memoriam: Frank Cancian
 
Documentary Photographer and Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, UC Irvine | 1934-2020
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
hector tobar

"There are 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country, and millions who are the children, siblings and spouses of the undocumented; they live in the uneasy cultural and legal limbo of the "mixed status" family. And even if you're a U.S. citizen who's never met or worked alongside an undocumented immigrant, the fate of the democracy you cherish is tied to theirs." Hector Tobar, Chicano/Latino studies and English, on what the future holds for undocumented immigrants.

Read on in The New York Times.
 
michael tesler
 
Tesler on stereotypes,
political ads
 
FiveThirtyEight
 
laura enriquez
 
Enriquez on undocumented students, CA
 
Inside Higher Ed
 
 
 
david neumark
 
Neumark on the minimum wage
 
New York Times
 
ruben rumbaut
 
Rumbaut on immigration
 
The Guardian
 
 
 
 
event
calendar
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
JAN
 
   
 
Expanding the Anthropological Imagination: Working In, With, and Against Wall Street
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Hannah Appel, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
 
 
 
 
 
 
08
 
JAN
 
   
 
How to Navigate a University with Few Racial-Ethnic Underrepresented Minorities, and How to Handle Offensive Comments in the Classroom, by Peers or Faculty Members
 
12:00-2:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Sabrina Strings, Rocio Rosales, and Brent Clark, Sociology, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
11
 
JAN
 
   
 
What Science's Scaffolding and the Second Philosopher
 
3:30-5:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Mark Wilson, Pittsburgh
 
 
 
 
 
 
13
 
Jan
 
   
 
A Crucible Moment for Race in America: The Crisis of Racial Capitalism and the Challenge of the Movement for Black Lives
 
12:00-1:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Barbara Ransby, Distinguished Professor, Departments of African American Studies, Gender and Women’s Studies, and History, University of Illinois at Chicago
 
 
 
 
 
 
15
 
Jan
 
   
 
The Corporeal Idea of Distance: Information Processing or Mechanical Correlation?
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Gary Hatfield, UPenn
 
 
 
 
 
 
18
 
JAN
 
   
 
Remarks on a Multiverse Language
 
3:30-5:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring John Steel, UC Berkeley
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
JAN
 
   
 
Postcolonial Orders and Disorders
 
3:30-5:30 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Nishita Trisal and Ashwak Hauter, Postdoctoral Scholars, Anthropology, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
22
 
JAN
 
   
 
Precarious Professions, Organizing for the Future
 
9:00-10:00 a.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required)

featuring Eli Thorkelson
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
about
uci soc sci
 
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