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Celebrating first graduates of Labor Studies Certificate
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (463+ words) Valerie Grimaldo, left, and Diana Hernandez have become the first students to earn the Labor Studies Certificate. The UC Irvine Labor Center and the School of Social Sciences are celebrating the first students to successfully complete the new'Labor Studies Certificate,…...
Davis named Professor of the Year again
4+ hour, 31+ min ago (817+ words) Frank Davis, lecturer in criminology, law and society, is the students" favorite instructor. Frank Davis has done it again. The lecturer in criminology, law and society has been named the 2026 UC Irvine School of Social Ecology Professor of the Year…...
Opening the digital door to youth mental health
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (778+ words) At 16, Tully looked fine from the outside. Inside, they were battling depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts " with no idea how to ask for help. Their brother Olly began experiencing psychosis at 13. It would be years before either found support. "What…...
Science meets justice
4+ day, 15+ hour ago (913+ words) Speaking at the Center for Psychology and Law's recent event are clockwise from left: Elizabeth Cauffman, Keramet Reiter and Kristin Turney. Cauffman, professor of psychology and director of the Center for Psychology and Law, opened her presentation with a deceptively…...
Pedaling toward justice
4+ day, 14+ hour ago (703+ words) Ethan Maldonado won the Student Showcase Audience Award from the Southern California Association of Governments. Ethan Maldonado grew up breathing Boyle Heights air " thick with diesel, highway exhaust, and the low hum of freeways that were deliberately routed through his…...
Jenness named Fellow of American Society of Criminology
1+ week, 3+ day ago (1086+ words) For more than 30 years, Valerie Jenness has pushed criminology to confront uncomfortable truths " about hate, about prisons, about who gets protected by law and who gets left behind and harmed by law. Now the field's most prominent professional organization is…...
Why we choose the wrong expert on purpose
2+ week, 5+ day ago (513+ words) When no legitimate, credentialed expert is available to validate a particular political position, some people turn to podcasters, influencers and other media personalities to fill the void." " Mertcan G'ng'r Most Americans know what a real expert's credentials look like: Relevant…...
Happiness Week returns
3+ week, 2+ day ago (290+ words) We often experience fleeting moments of happiness or even an entire day when you can say to yourself, as you slip into your jammies, "Gee, I felt really happy today." But UC Irvine is possibly the only place where you…...
Unlikely Common Ground | School of Social Ecology
3+ week, 3+ day ago (622+ words) Two of the nation's leading immigration advocates, representing opposing ends of a deeply polarized debate, sat down together at UC Irvine on May 5 and delivered a message few expected: both sides have failed " and only by working together can they…...
School's podcast wins fourth award
3+ week, 4+ day ago (429+ words) UC Irvine School of Social Ecology's podcast "Red County, Blue County, Orange County" has won a fourth award " the Award of Distinction from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). The school was among the winners of AIVA's 32nd Annual Communicator…...