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The call for fellows for our annual mentorship conference! The conference will be held January 21 - 22, 2022. We are looking for promising early-career global s...cholars to participate as mentees in the conference. The link to the conference website is: https://www.globalstudies.uci.edu/conference/index.php See more

Congratulations grads! In-person stage moments continue today at the Bren Events Center. Thanks to all the grads and their families for a memorable week! #UCIGrad : Steve Zylius/UCI

Affordable living in San Francisco? UCI economist Jan Brueckner says remote work will depress home prices in big cities and raise them in suburbs. More: https://fal.cn/3ghit

If workers can keep their well-paying jobs and move to a cheaper city, their incomes will go further, says Jan Brueckner, University of California, Irvine Distinguished Professor of economics and co-author of a recent National Bureau of Economic Research white paper on the predicted effects of remote work on the housing market. In this Q&A with UCI News, Brueckner explains how remote worker migration will depress home prices in big cities and raise them in suburbs. #housing #remotework #UCIrvine University of California

Listen in to the latest episode of the #UCIPodcast as Jan Brueckner, economics, describes how the #pandemic has disrupted #housing markets and why work from home favors the suburbs. University of California, Irvine University of California

How does the pandemic-era U.S. economy compare with similar crisis points in history, and what lessons learned might guide a more fruitful future? Vellore Arthi, University of California, Irvine economics assistant professor, studies long-term and intergenerational consequences of crises. Her work which has covered previous pandemics, recessions, natural disasters, and the like relies on historical data to analyze issues including human capital formation and cohort welfar...e, economic growth and inequality, and policy effectiveness. While information on local economic activity is central to analyzing questions like these, she’s found that systematic and high-quality data on local conditions is limited for much of the country’s history, leaving researchers to rely on a patchwork of often incomplete or insufficiently detailed datasets. With a $116,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) - part of a larger $491,000 collaborative NSF project joint with National Bureau of Economic Research co-principal investigators Katherine Eriksson, UC Davis, and Gary Richardson, #UCIrvine - she’s planning to fill this gap. Using annual bank deposit records of all households and firms dating back to the Civil War, Arthi and her research team will reconstruct the evolution of the American economy at a county level over a 155-year period. These new data, which will be made publicly available following the conclusion of the project, will help relieve research and policy evaluation bottlenecks in the social sciences. Arthi and her research team will also analyze these new data to shed light on a range of issues that help us better understand our past and present. These include the dynamics of regional business cycles, the local economic impact of banking regulations, the life-course and intergenerational impact of graduating during a recession, and the evolution of racial wealth gaps. Work on this project began in March and runs through February 2024, with findings to follow in leading academic journals. More: http://socs.ci/arthiNSF21 University of California

Fighting for fair #housing: UCI sociology Ph.D. student Steven Schmidt receives Haynes Foundation Fellowship to study housing practices in Los Angeles. We think of a housing search as something that's really routine, but it’s not. My work shows how housing searches end up widening racial inequalities between low income, immigrant families who incur more costs than low income, white families who are native born U.S. citizens, he says. I hope my project can motivate some ch...anges around tenant screening by illuminating how exclusionary the process is and make housing practices more equitable for all. More at socs.ci/schmidthaynes21. UC Irvine Graduate Division Sociology, UC Irvine University of California #fairhousing #UCIrvine #haynesfoundation University of California, Irvine

"Our moral judgments change our factual judgments about the world, says Cailin O'Connor, University of California, Irvine logic and philosophy of science associate professor. Accounting for moral and other biases in public health messaging is vital to combatting the spread of infectious disease, she says. More via Science News Magazine University of California

Congrats to our 14 Chancellor’s Award of Distinction recipients in social sciences! This amazing campus-level honor recognizes the University of California, Irvine's most outstanding graduating seniors. socs.ci/cad21 #zotzotzot #ucipride #classof2021

Experts agree higher education needs to do more to create equity for Black students. But more attention needs to be paid to barriers Black students face before they step foot on campus. Damien Sojoyner, University of California, Irvine anthropologist, provides perspective via Inside Higher Ed. University of California American Anthropological Association

Happening tomorrow at noon: University of California, Irvine social scientists breakdown key election issues. You won't want to miss this dynamic panel with professors Louis DeSipio, Mary McThomas, David Meyer and Cailin O'Connor. Moderated by Graeme Boushey. Register: socs.ci/pre-election2020 University of California Sociology, UC Irvine UCI Public Affairs

Join us Oct 20 for a pre-election breakdown of important social movement, political misinformation, and court issues featuring University of California, Irvine professors Louis DeSipio, Mary McThomas, David Meyer, Cailin O'Connor & Graeme Boushey. RSVP: socs.ci/pre-election2020 University of California Sociology, UC Irvine UCI Department of Political Science American Political Science Association American Sociological Association UC Irvine Graduate Division UCI Public Affairs

Is the Federal Reserve contributing to economic inequality? Catch a recap of yesterday's talk with Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco president Mary C. Daly, sponsored by the University of California, Irvine Center for Population, Inequality and Policy and Department of Economics.

How is the pandemic playing out in different regions & will this global challenge facilitate a cooperative global response - or just the opposite? Etel Solingen, University of California, Irvine political scientist & expert on nuclear proliferation, weighs in courtesy of the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, UC San Diego. http://socs.ci/etel-igcc-20 University of California American Political Science Association

Happening tomorrow, Oct 13 at 5 p.m.: Mary C. Daly, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, will discuss economic inequality & the Federal Reserve. Register now for this virtual event at University of California, Irvine hosted by the Center for Population, Inequality and Policy and Department of Economics. UCI Public Affairs

First generation transfer student Dayra Perez Bernal was planning a trip to Granada, Spain this year - her first time to Europe - to continue research she’s been conducting in the University of California, Irvine Bilingualism, Mind and Brain Lab. She would be among the first cohort of UCI students to participate in a new Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) grant, a program funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) that sends students abroad and... to partner institutions in the US to conduct research on various aspects of language science. Her classmates were eagerly anticipating their own research trips to the Netherlands, Puerto Rico, the UK, New Mexico, Florida and Beijing. Perez Bernal’s experience in the PIRE program could have been another example of disappointment and missed opportunity in 2020. Instead it’s one of creativity in the face of adversity, and international bonds strengthened amidst a global crisis. Our colleagues everywhere in the world are having the same problems conducting research right now, leading to a radical shift to online research, says Judith Kroll, Distinguished Professor of language science at UCI, and principal investigator for PIRE at UCI. In the process, we’re all learning some new things, and at the point when we’re able to return to our physical labs, we will have new skills, new ideas, and new ways of collaborating. More: http://socs.ci/pire2020 Penn State University of California University of Florida Center for Language Science at Penn State UC Irvine Graduate Division

Is the Federal Reserve contributing to economic inequality? Join us Oct 13, 5 p.m., for a discussion with Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President Mary C. Daly, moderated by Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine social sciences dean. Co-sponsored by the UCI Department of Economics and Center for Population, Inequality and Policy. RSVP: http://socs.ci/daly2020 University of California UCI Public Affairs UCI Alumni UCI Giving

Population distribution can greatly impact COVID-19 spread, UCI-led study finds: Contagion disparities can affect perception of risk, demand for healthcare services. http://socs.ci/pop-distribution-covid19 University of California, Irvine Sociology, UC Irvine University of California American Sociological Association Calit2 - UC Irvine Division UCI School of Social Ecology

Welcome home, #Anteaters! A video message from University of California, Irvine social sciences dean Bill Maurer UCI Chicano/Latino Studies UCI School of Social Science Staff Sociology, UC Irvine Anthropology Club at UCI UCI Department of Political Science Global Connect at UCI SSARC UC Irvine UCI Mock Trial School of Social Sciences Dean's Ambassadors Council Dean's Leadership Society

Meet Sofia Franco, a new University of California, Irvine economics assistant teaching professor who studies how cities develop over time. She comes to Irvine following a professorial post at the Nova School of Business and Economics in Portugal. University of California

Meet Salvador Zarate, a new University of California, Irvine anthropology assistant professor who studies how labor that shapes our everyday lives but goes largely unnoticed like farming, landscaping, and domestic household work - produces new forms of social belonging. An Orange County native, Zarate is excited to join UCI's diverse community of scholars and researchers committed to helping first generation students like himself succeed and he’s looking forward to forming bonds between the campus and the community to support the well-being of those the university is meant to serve.

Meet Marion Aouad, a new University of California, Irvine economics assistant professor who specializes in health economics. Her work aims to understand and analyze factors including price, individual and family circumstance, and federal and state policies - that influence consumers' decisions for health care consumption, and the consequences of those decisions. She also studies how health insurance reforms affect the supply and demand-side of health care markets. Her work,... funded by the National Science Foundation and National Institutes of Aging has been published in the Journal of Health Economics. Aouad earned her bachelor’s in economics at Princeton University and Ph.D. in economics at UC Berkeley. She spent a year as an assistant professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark, and then two years as a postdoctoral research fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine before joining the UCI faculty in fall 2020. She’s excited about the work being done by UCI’s economists and researchers, and she’s looking forward to being a part of the campus’s vibrant academic community. University of California