Grofman selected as Peltason chair

UC Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman will be the inaugural Jack W. Peltason Endowed Chair, named for the former…

Rubén Rumbaut

UCI Distinguished Professor Rubén Rumbaut elected AAAS fellow

Rubén Rumbaut, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of sociology, has been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o elected AAAS fellow

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, UC Irvine Distinguished Professor of English and comparative literature, has been named a 2014 fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Ruiz and Frank elected AAAS fellows

The UCI faculty members are among 220 new fellows and 17 new foreign honorary members elected this year.

Julius Margolis, UCI professor emeritus of economics, dies at 91

His prominence helped attract top-flight economists faculty to a relatively young School of Social Sciences in 1976.

Chris Stout

Probing racial, gender politics

Grad student Chris Stout studies discrepancy between what voters say and do.

Vicente Fox talks democracy, Mexico at UCI

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox will discuss the future of democracy in Latin America April 8.

John Zogby

Pollster proves his point

In a pre-election editorial, John Zogby, the political pollster with the reputation for pinpoint accuracy, predicted that the Nov. 4 vote would “usher in one of the few years of genuine reform.”

Shifts in political party control focus of study

New research by UC Irvine political science professor Bernard Grofman suggests shifts in political party control over the U.S. House,…

A little detective work

Professor of Political Science and Social Psychology Bernard Grofman takes the mystery out of complex social issues