Social Sciences

Words from the wise

Undergraduate, graduate speakers at commencement are both first in their families to earn university degrees

Sasha Strauss at TEDxUCI

Community conference

TEDxUCIrvine, set for May 31, will explore ‘The Adventure of Discovery’

Water spout

Encouraging cross-campus collaboration

Multidisciplinary projects focused on data science, medical humanities and water will be funded under new Interschool Academic Initiative program

Richard Matthew

Catch them if you can

Unhampered by borders and laws, hackers present new security threats

Robert Gomez

Giving (back) as good as he got

First-generation alumnus now works at U.S. Department of Education helping others like him

Highlights of 2013 at UCI

Year brings scientific advances, national accolades, international outreach, student achievement … and zombies

Aphasia Poster

Rendered speechless

Aphasia/stroke victim, UCI expert to launch School of Social Sciences’ 2013-14 lecture series

The spooky side of science

In the spirit of Halloween, we offer a witches’ brew of peculiar probes and freaky findings by UCI researchers

Walking Dead MOOC professors

Academics take on zombies

Offered through Instructure, the free, eight-week MOOC will explore subjects related to math, public health, social science and physics

Jack Peltason

Happy Jack Peltason Day

City of Irvine honors UCI’s second chancellor on his 90th birthday