Society & Community

Kent Hymel, a UC Irvine doctoral candidate in economics, found that sluggish commutes - usually indicative of high employment levels - lead to slowed job growth.

Losing your job or doing jail time can affect how people perceive your racial background, according to a recent study co-authored by Andrew Penner, UC Irvine sociology assistant professor.

The year has been exciting and rewarding for UC Irvine - from promising new research collaborations to impactful breakthroughs, dedicated outreach projects, diverse cultural activities, continued campus growth and athletic success.

Attention married women: Up to your elbows in housework? Having trouble getting your husbands to chip in? According to sociology professor Judith Treas, odds are you answered yes if you live in the U.S.

If David Feldman has his way, you could soon be working with water policy managers and scientists to allocate California's precious liquid resource.

UC Irvine and other organizations recently challenged Orange County students to "imagine life without water" and create multimedia projects promoting water conservation in California.

An era of mass migrations, porous borders and easily obtained fraudulent documents is blurring the definition of citizenship and putting national security at risk around the globe, says UC Irvine political science professor Kamal Sadiq in his new book, Paper Citizens: How Illegal Immigrants Acquire Citizenship in Developing Countries.

Population growth, climate variations and urbanization have the potential to cause chronic water shortages in a growing number of regions worldwide.

Teens who are into texting, gaming and "geeking out" are not wasting their time, according to results from the most extensive U.S. study on young people and their use of digital media.