KEYWORD

social ecology

Research finds no increase in major crimes after state’s 2011 prisoner release

UCI-edited journal issue dedicated to assessment of California’s ‘realignment’ policy

Maria D. Hernandez

Justice for kids

Superior Court Judge Maria D. Hernandez ’86 presides over efforts to keep troubled juveniles from succumbing to lives of crime

UCI, other professors enlist rappers for US Supreme Court brief

Justices urged to hear First Amendment case involving high school student

Study questions value of some urban development pacts

Can low-income neighborhoods share in the profits of a big development project by signing a private contract with the developer? Some urban planners say yes, but Nicholas Marantz, a UCI assistant professor of planning, policy & design, challenges that notion in a study of a project near L.A.’s Staples Center. Writing in the autumn issue […]

Psychologist Nancy Guerra named dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology

University of Delaware professor will take on new role next summer

Valerie Jenness, dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology

‘How the law works for law breakers’

Book co-authored by social ecology dean sheds light on the inmate grievance process in California

A dried-up pond at the San Joaquin Marsh Reserve near UC Irvine

Blueprint for a thirsty world from Down Under

The Millennium Drought in southeastern Australia forced Greater Melbourne, a city of 4.3 million people, to successfully implement innovations that hold critical lessons for water-stressed regions around the world, according to findings by UC Irvine and Australian researchers.

A Forest Path

Awe promotes altruistic behavior, UCI-led study finds

Inducing a sense of awe in people can promote altruistic, helpful and positive social behavior, according to new research led by UC Irvine psychologist Paul Piff.

Depression intensifies anger in veterans with PTSD, UCI study shows

Diagnosis with one or both disorders should trigger rage-focused treatment

Magic Johnson

A Magic moment

Basketball legend Earvin Johnson opens the 2015 Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellows Series