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Move over, Hamilton

Soc sci dean to help Department of Treasury determine first female face on new $10

Helen Keller, Sacagawea and Susan B. Anthony – sounds like pretty great company to keep. The Department of the Treasury is getting ready to add another female face to U.S. currency, and will be making history with its move to put a woman on the new $10 bill – the first U.S. paper note that will feature a female. To help in the bill redesign, Treasury is tapping the expertise of social sciences dean and anthropology professor Bill Maurer. Maurer is an internationally recognized expert on the anthropology of money, finance and law, and has written on everything having to do with money and its technologies, from ancient coins to credit card imprinters. He's the author of four books, including Mutual Life, Limited: Islamic Banking, Alternative Currencies, Lateral Reason, which won the Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing in 2005, and the soon to be released How Would You Like To Pay? How Technology is Changing the Future of Money. More...

news

UCI's top junior

Aldrich award winner Amy He makes soc sci--and her mom--proud

Summer romance: Will it last?

UCI researchers apply scientific method to study of how we receive affectionate messages

Outstanding honor for soc sci student

Sociology's Sanchez wins award for undergraduate thesis after finding inspiration in an age-old question

Declawing the 'tiger mom'

Book co-authored by UCI sociologist debunks idea that Asian American academic achievement is due to unique cultural traits or values

Bridging the gap

Sociology grad student combines experience in academia and activism to study human trafficking

Anthropology students presented with merit- and research-based award

Rossell Memorial Award supports parents and non-traditional grad students

Former congressman named Dean's Visiting Professor

John Campbell will teach undergrad political science classes, make public presentations

SAEP 2015

First-generation college students share experience in school's intensive undergrad research program

Falmagne award winners announced

McIntee and Allison recognized for mathematical approaches to social sciences

up-coming events

First day of class
Sept 24

Festival of Discovery
Oct 3

Transforming Migrations: Beyond the 1965 Act
Oct 8-9

in the media

Lee on affirmative action
SiriusXM

Rumbaut on immigrants and crime
Time

Burbank airport's size is its charm - and limitation
Brueckner, Los Angeles Times

This Colombian town is trying to get rid of cash - but it's not so easy
Maurer, Fusion

In praise of David Neumark
Neumark, Forbes

A survey about kids and risk
UCI cognitive scientists, Free-Range Kids and Just Parenting News

Jennifer Lee on affirmative action and Asian Americans
Lee, SiriusXM - The Morning Briefing with Tim Farley

Tales of the unexpected
Wang Feng, The Economist

Friend's account about Canadian woman convicted of hiring hit on Asian immigrant parents reveal life of stress, rebellion
Lee, New York Daily News

Story of Jennifer Pan, "golden" child of immigrants, reveals plot to murder parents
Lee, Complex

Tragedy of 'golden' daughter's fall resonates with Asian immigrant children
Lee, The Washington Post, National Post, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Canberra Times and MSN

Q&A With Prof. Jennifer Lee: Asian American success isn't what you think it is
Lee, BlogHer

A closer look at online learning
Christopherson, MIT Technology Review

Raising floor for minimum wage pushes economy into the unknown
Neumark, The New York Times and MSN

The minimum-wage muddle (Op-ed)
Neumark, The New York Times July, The Seattle Times, East Oregonian, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Qatar Tribune, Las Vegas Sun and Columbus Dispatch

6 multicultural money lessons worth learning
Maurer, Credit Card Guide

The winners and losers of New York's new $15 fast-food minimum wage
Neumark, Fortune

Former congressman is new UCI visiting professor
Maurer, Orange County Register

Internet anger, traffic stops
Lee, BBC