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Richard Futrell
 
 
featured:
UCI Experts On: Language processing
 
UCI language scientist Richard Futrell shares his work on how we derive meaning from text and sound

 
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Tiffany Willoughby Herard
 
 
New faculty interview: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
 
Associate Professor, Global and International Studies | Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara
 
 
Jessica Canas Castaneda
 
 
Cultivating community
 
Jessica Cañas-Castañeda '06, department administrator and manager and 2023 David L. Leinen Outstanding Staff Award recipient, shares what drives her management style and her more than 20-year Anteater career in the social sciences
 
 
Kevin Booker
 
 
Psychological healer
 
Kevin Booker '93 followed the footsteps of his UCI mentors to a fulfilling career
 
 
 
Frank, Lerch and Schofer
 
 
UCI sociologists highlight key social forces shaping trends in academic freedom worldwide
 
Findings published in American Sociological Review
 
 
Ross and Bassett
 
 
Examining the standards of science
 
UC Irvine, University of Pennsylvania coauthored study published in Nature Reviews Neuroscience and supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and John Templeton Foundation
 
 
 
Mike McBride
 
 
Coaching Youth Baseball and Softball with Sabermetrics: Strategies to Improve Your In-game Decisions and Gain a Competitive Edge
 
Book two in UCI economics professor Michael McBride's multi-part series shares how youth coaches can apply rich data to create game-winning strategies
 
 
 
Gurlin Babrah
 
 
Babrah awarded Educational Enhancement Scholarship
 
Honor will support the political science and philosophy double major's summer fellowship in Washington, D.C.
 
 
Preston Wong
 
 
Wong awarded Educational Enhancement Scholarship
 
Honor supported the social policy and public service major's participation in the 2023 California Transportation Foundation Symposium
 
 
 
Lunar New Year 2024
 
 
A look back at UCI's 2024 Lunar New Year Festival
 
Relive the sights and sounds of our best celebration yet
 
 
Homecoming
 
 
Join us for Homecoming 2024
 
Calling all UCI soc sci alumni: Kick start your homecoming weekend on Saturday, March 2 from 2:00–6:00 p.m. at our Homecoming Tailgate BBQ before the 'Eaters take on Long Beach State at the Bren
 
 
 
 
 
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.
 
Cailin O'Connor

Game theory, science, and misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic

Cailin O'Connor, logic & philosophy of science professor, dives in in this podcast with The Dissenter.

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Michael Tesler
 
Tesler on
politics
 
Foreign Affairs
 
Eric Swanson
 
Swanson on
interest rates
 
AP
 
 
 
Claire Jean Kim
 
Kim on racial
justice
 
KQED 
 
Marty Wattenberg
 
Wattenberg on youth vote
 
NYT Magazine
 
Kelley Fon

The parent trap

UCI sociologist Kelley Fong's new book, Investigating Families: Motherhood in the Shadow of Child Protective Services, is reviewed in The New York Review.
 
Bill Maurer
 
Maurer on
credit cards
 
WalletHub
 
Louis DeSipio
 
DeSipio on
Navalny
 
Sky News Australia
 
 
 
Richard Futrell
 
Futrell on
language
 
Evolution News
& Science

 
Jeff Kopstein
 
Kopstein on antisemitism
 
Orange County
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28
 
FEB
 
   
 
Zero-Sum Thinking, the Evolution of Effort-Suppressing Beliefs, and Economic Development
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Jean-Paul Carvalho, University of Oxford
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
FEB
 
   
 
Understanding Gaza: Tracing Violence and Reconciliation in Palestine/Israel
 
12:00-2:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 | Sa'ed Atshan, Swarthmore College
 
 
 
 
 
 
29
 
FEB
 
   
 
Moving Pictures: Reading the Refugee Image
 
5:00-6:20 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 1100 | Timothy August, English, Stony Brook University
 
 
 
 
 
 
01
 
MAR
 
   
 
Evidence-Based Equity and Inclusion: A Modeling Approach
 
3:00-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza B, Room 1222 | Hannah Rubin, Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, University of Missouri
 
 
 
 
 
 
02
 
MAR
 
   
 
UCI Homecoming
 
2:00-6:00 p.m. | Aldrich Park and the Bren Events Center
 
 
 
 
 
 
04
 
MAR
 
   
 
Weapons of Mass Production. World War I and the Modernization of the French Economy
 
3:30-5:00 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Victor Gay, Toulouse School of Economics
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
MAR
 
   
 
"Teachers Talk": How School Personnel 'Find Out' About Parental System Involvement
 
12:30-1:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 | Anna R. Haskins, Andrew V. Tackes Associate Professor of Sociology and Associate Director of the Initiative on Race and Resilience, University of Notre Dame
 
 
 
 
 
 
05
 
MAR
 
   
 
Health Insurance Subsidies as an Income Stabilizer: A Regression Discontinuity Analysis of the Affordable Care Act
 
2:00-3:30 p.m. | Social Science Plaza A, Room 3132 | Nathan Blascak, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
 
 
 
 
 
 
08-09
 
MAR
 
   
 
In the Burrow: Critical Approaches to Infrastructure
 
9:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m. | Humanities Gateway
 
 
 
 
 
 
19
 
MAR
 
   
 
The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism by Isabelle Guerin, Santosh Kumar, G. Venkatasubramanian
 
12:00-1:00 p.m. | Zoom (pre-registration required) | Isabelle Guerin, Senior Research Fellow, French Institute of Research for Sustainable Development; Associate, French Institute of Pondicherry
 
 
 
 
 
 
21
 
MAR
 
   
 
CPIP Workshop: Applying While Black: How Race Shapes Employment Through Career Histories
 
3:30-4:30 p.m. | Social and Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1321 | Ming Leung and Sharon Koppman, Associate Professors, Department of Organization and Management, The Paul Merage School of Business, UCI
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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