Social Sciences

At the 9/11 Memorial at New York City’s rebuilt World Trade Center, a rose adorns the edge of a reflecting pool. The effects of that day’s terrorist attacks are still being felt 20 years later.

How 9/11 changed America

UCI scholars offer insights into how the terrorist attacks continue to impact health, travel, politics and the media

Orlando Lara

Immigrant rights - and wrongs

UCI doctoral student in anthropology explores the experiences of undocumented people and exposes their mistreatment

Victoria Lowerson Bredow, right, with Connie McGuire

Research solidarity with communities

Newkirk Center fellowship program teaches interdisciplinary graduate students a more collaborative, inclusive way to engage with groups they study

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UCI Podcast: The perils and benefits of dream incubation

Professor Sara Mednick discusses how sounds and smells can influence our sleeping minds

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UCI Podcast: The economics of why work from home favors the suburbs

UCI Professor Jan Brueckner describes how the pandemic has disrupted housing markets

Street scene on Broadway in Los Angeles

What's next: The ongoing urban exodus

Remote worker migration will depress home prices in big cities and raise them in suburbs, says UCI economist

Cognitive scientist Aaron Bornstein receives National Institute on Aging grant

Cognitive impairments due to normal aging may leave some older adults vulnerable to exploitation when making complex decisions with long-term impacts – like those pertaining to medical care and finances. Understanding what these impairments are and how they may be mitigated is the focus of a new UCI study led by Aaron Bornstein, cognitive sciences […]

Virginia Nguyen

Finding her voice

Alumna speaks out as both an educator and an advocate for AAPI and other communities affected by racism

Etel Solingen named Berlin Prize Fellow

UCI political scientist to advance work on geopolitics

David Sanusi, international studies major, standing on stairs.

Adding a little spice - literally - to life

Undergrads launch company that imports vanilla, cinnamon and a type of cocoa bean prized by European chocolatiers