Today’s parents spend more time with their kids than moms and dads did 50 years ago

Trend is most pronounced among the better-educated, UCI study finds

Motherhood has long-term effect on wages, occupational status, UCI study finds

Irvine, Calif., Oct. 3, 2014 – Are kids a career killer for women? A new study by UC Irvine sociologists concludes that motherhood imposes a long-term professional penalty from which women in the workforce never fully recover. The career costs are less pronounced in countries that allocate more funds to child care. “Researchers have long […]

Vandell elected to National Academy of Education

Deborah Lowe Vandell, dean of UC Irvine’s School of Education, was recently elected to the National Academy of Education, an organization dedicated to advancing high-quality education research and its use in policy formulation and practice.

Deborah Lowe Vandell

Lessons from the School of Education

New dean discusses ways of strengthening California’s academic system

Deborah Vandell named founding dean, UCI School of Education

Renowned researcher studies the effects of early schooling and family life on children’s later behavior and academic performance.

School of Education approved by UC Board of Regents

Designation reflects campus commitment to improving California classroom experience.

Balancing act

Alison Clarke-Stewart weighs research findings with a healthy dose of common sense

To make a difference

Jacqueline Hamilton seeks equilibrium

UC Irvine’s 2024 Hellman Fellows are (clockwise from upper left): Abigail Lapin Dardashti, Javier Sanchez-Yamagishi, Fangyaun Ding, Pablo Lara-Gonzalez, Katherine Trieste Rhodes, Alejandra Rodriguez Verdugo, Irene Vega, Xian Shi, Ji Seon Song and Travis Wiles.

10 UC Irvine faculty members named Hellman Fellows for 2024-25

Program supports research by promising assistant professors

Digital illustration of a side profile of a human head and neck in a stylized X-ray effect, highlighting the skull and sinuses with bones in blue and sinuses in shades of orange

The Nose Knows Where Memories Go

Studying the connection between olfaction and the brain’s ability to remember things