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An endless quest for knowledge fuels social scientist Carter Butts


Most people struggle mightily to see any similarities in biology and sociology, or understand parallels between economics and electrical engineering. Carter Butts is not most people. The UC Irvine sociology professor models complex systems in divergent arenas, seeking comparisons that can help solve difficult problems.

If that seems esoteric, it's anything but to Butts. His unparalleled enthusiasm, coupled with an outright joy at diving headfirst into uncharted territory, has opened doors to a dizzying array of seemingly unrelated projects.

Read on...





news

From cockpit to courtroom

UCI helped Marine Corps veteran Advaith Thampi find his path after military life

UC researchers find racial disparities in state's AB 60 driver license program

Findings published online with Boom California


Barrett named Chancellor's Professor

Honor recognizes academic merit and achievement

Harburger fellows named

Sociology's Vann recognized

Lending a hand

UCI soc sci staff gather to wrap donated gifts for UCI's Staff Helping Hands Program

Honoring the 'godfather of black psychology'

Pioneering mental health professional, renowned scholar and beloved UCI teacher-mentor Joseph White is recalled as an inspirational campus icon





up-coming events

Undoing Racism Workshops (AICRES)

Jan 12-15

Business Outlook Breakfast

Jan 24

Peace and Justice Week 2018: The Power of Advocacy

Jan 25

Korea across homogeneous, empty territory
Jan 11

Parents of the Voter: The Role of Family Background in Turnout
Jan 12

The Impact of Africa's Fractal Codes: Connections and Linkages
Jan 12

reSource by MBDance
Jan 15

Stepping into the Future with Dr. Alan Colon, People's Institute for Survival and Beyond
Jan 15

Building AICRES of Resilience
Jan 15

The Cuban Factors of Humanity
Jan 16

Migration, the Diffuse Border, and other Gray Areas of our Times
Jan 18

Digging into "Big Data"
Jan 19

Negotiating Armenian Identity in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon
Jan 24

Business Outlook Breakfast
Jan 24

Peace and Justice Week 2018: The Power of Advocacy
Jan 25





in the media

More Latinas are becoming teachers and reshaping our nation's classrooms

Flores, NBC News

Doom Season in Los Angeles

Tobar, The New York Times

What explains nuclear choices in East Asia?

Solingen, East Asia Forum

California Today: Raises come with increase in minimum wage
Neumark, The New York Times

The great, overlooked tax policy for getting people to work
Neumark, The Atlantic

Protesters are getting ready in case Trump fires Robert Mueller
Meyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

How the new sanctuary state law will affect local law enforcement (Audio)
DeSipio, KPCC

Protesters stash bullhorns and hot chocolate, just in case Trump fires Mueller
Meyer, Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune

Does Facebook facilitate age discrimination in job ads?
Neumark, Inc.

Orange County quits program that exemplified its tough stance on illegal immigration
DeSipio, Los Angeles Times, The Sacramento Bee

Trump and the Protesters: From Iran to Orange County
Varzi, CounterPunch

Indonesia's crackdown on gay men: 'It doesn't get better, does it'
Boellstorff, The New York Times

Trump has unprecedented power to remake the world's most powerful economic body
Richardson, The Washington Post

Doom Season in Los Angeles
Tobar, The New York Times

White voters would be discriminated against by Navajos, say San Juan Co. Commissioners of proposed voting district boundaries
Grofman, The Salt Lake Tribune

More Latinas are becoming teachers and reshaping our nation's classrooms
Flores, Hispanic Network

Feeling guilty about not spending time with your kids? Here's what really matters
Treas, Chicago Tribune

What explains nuclear choices in East Asia?
Solingen, East Asia Forum

Housing is a hand up not a hand out
Snow and Goldberg, Orange County Register

UCI professor, 'Father of black psychology,' dies on plane trip
White, Orange County Register

Modern parents spend more time with their kids than their parents spent with them
Treas, Quartz

UC Irvine student spearheads first student-funded scholarship for refugees and asylum seekers
Siddiqi, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Daily Pilot

'Father of Black Psychology' Joseph L. White dies at 84 (AP)
White, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, ABC News, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Business Insider, San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and 141 additional publications

UCI student creates first-of-its-kind scholarship program for refugees
Siddiqi, Orange County Register

More Latinas are becoming teachers and reshaping our nation's classrooms
Flores, NBC News


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