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Speaking to an attentive audience of more than 100 faculty, staff, students & community members March 19 at UC Irvine, former U.S. Agency for International Development Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman made a passionate case for the value of U.S. foreign assistance. tinyurl.com/USAIDcoleman

SoCal couple weigh their options as housing costs rise in Orange County A couple who made the move to Orange County from West Hollywood say they are weighing their options after safety enticed them to move but rising costs could see them leave. Hetty Chang reports for the...

An NBC LA report on folks struggling due to the high cost of living in Orange County includes an interview with School of Social Ecology Dean Jon Gould of the University of California, Irvine. He cites UCI-OC Poll findings about residents considering leaving the region. tinyurl.com/GouldNBCla

The UCI-OC Poll - which surveyed Orange County residents about their ancestry, ethnic/racial identity & immigration views - offers "more proof that the OC is a truly 'purple' county," explains Jon Gould, dean of the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology that sponsored the poll. tinyurl.com/UCIOCpollJBG

Highlights? Awards? Events? Webinars? Lovey-dovey alums? All in the the March edition of Advocate, the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology's monthly e-newsletter? Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes and YES! tinyurl.com/Advocate3-25 #AllinforAll

Living Near Family Affects Your Psychology in Surprising Ways New research suggests that living and being around family more often affects our psychology in some surprising ways.

Living around relatives carries both benefits and problems. Please allow Oliver Sng, a University of California, Irvine assistant professor of psychological science, to explain how - using his own stellar research: tinyurl.com/OSparents

Heightened deportation fears could lead to underreporting crimes, less cooperation with police, scholars say ‘It’s not new, but it has been accelerating, and Trump is hitting the gas,’ a sociology professor who studies immigration says.

Two of nation's best criminologists, the University of California, Irvine's Charis Kubrin and Susan Bibler Coutin, warn that heightened deportation fears could lead to crimes being underreported and less cooperation with police. tinyurl.com/CKnSBCcoopPD

Eight Tips For Talking With Your Kids About Death The way we communicate with children when someone dies can help them process the loss and be more comfortable with the topic in general.

Talking with your children about death is difficult. Fortunately, University of California, Irvine psychological science Professor Jessica Borelli and graduate student Kaitlin Lord authored sage advice for parents in The Greater Good Science Center magazine. tinyurl.com/JBnKLadvice

The University of California, Irvine psychology program, which is administered by departments in the School of Social Ecology and School of Social Sciences, is ranked among the top 50 in the world by Times Higher Education. tinyurl.com/PsychNo42

A top national ranking, a record-smashing gift, an eye-opening poll and society-shifting research are just some of what you'll find in the February edition of the Advocate newsletter from the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology. tinyurl.com/FebAdvocate

New research published by University of California, Irvine psychological science Assistant Professor Oliver Sng and colleagues from the University of Toronto and Hamilton College suggests stereotypes have been stereotyped. What the ...??? Answers here: tinyurl.com/OSsterotypes

A study by University of California, Irvine Department of Psychological Science Chair and Professor Nicholas Scurich, two of his UC Irvine colleagues and a Los Angeles School Police Department scientist was named a Journal of Forensic Sciences 2024 Noteworthy Article. tinyurl.com/NSjas2024

The highest honor from the Western Society of Criminology, the Paul Tappan Award was bestowed last week to Valerie Jenness, Distinguished Professor of the criminology, law & society at UC Irvine. The WSC honored Dr. Jenness with its President's Award last year. tinyurl.com/VJwscTappan

The new documentary Giants Rising, which is currently playing on the U.S. festival circuit, features University of California, Irvine psychological science Associate Professor Paul Piff talking about experiencing awe while gazing at redwoods. www.giantsrising.com

How could ex-Nightly News anchor Brian Williams recall being in a wartime helicopter attack when he wasn't? UC Irvine psychological science Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus explains how it may have been a false memory that "happens to virtually all of us.” tinyurl.com/ELbriansmem

Professors Walter Nicholls and Carolina Valdivia of the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology share their knowledge about income, housing and equity at Orange County Grantmakers' “The Path Ahead: OC’s Roadmap to Equity.” tinyurl.com/WNCVequity

Already full of pride because of her Hispanic heritage and criminology, law & society studies, Alexandra Magana Cabrera recently got a heaping helping more at the UC Irvine Police Department awards banquet, where she was honored as the Community Safety Ambassador of the Year. tinyurl.com/AMCsafety

The University of California, Irvine Department of Urban Planning & Public Policy recently gave the bright lights treatment to Assistant Professor Alejandro Reyes. Read more about Dr. Reyes' impactful work on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border here: tinyurl.com/ARuciup3

From left: Professor Nancy Rodriguez, Santiago Campos Rodríguez, Aaron Sullivan and Joanna Williams.

This team of UC Irvine researchers is drilling down on the racial and ethnic disparities in criminal justice practices in the U.S. that disproportionately impact historically underrepresented groups and lead to social inequality and exclusion. tinyurl.com/NRunequal

Meet the inaugural cohort of Next Generation of Crime and Justice Scholars as well as the professor who created the program that is helping 8 University of California, Irvine criminology, law & society majors, who are first-generation college students, prepare for grad school. tinyurl.com/NGCJS2025

An ad on page 5 of the Feb. 24 Orange County Business Journal spotlights the important and ongoing scholarly work on SoCal flooding by UC Irvine urban planning & public policy Associate Professor Nicola Ulibarri and civil & environmental engineering Professor Brett Sanders. tinyurl.com/NUBSocbj

Nicholas Marantz of UC Irvine is currently a visiting scholar at Sciences Po's CNRS in France. The urban planning & public policy associate professor's project focuses on the legal interpretation of maps in disputes concerning urban development there, in England & the U.S. tinyurl.com/NMparisUP3

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Break out the megaphones, it's time for our regular roundup of local, national and international media featuring scholars from the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology. socialecology.uci.edu/news/news-2025 #InTheNews

Read how an article about aftershocks from Brazil's anti-corruption operation led to an American Society of Criminology award for UC Irvine alums Eduardo Carvalho Nepomuceno Alencar ('22, PhD social ecology) and Bryant Jackson-Green ('24, JD), a social ecology PhD candidate. tinyurl.com/EcnaBjg

Before a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Climate Conversations' webinar on urban fires, moderator and UC Irvine Assistant Professor Michael Méndez talked about how people from all aspects of his life were affected by SoCal's recent infernos. tinyurl.com/MendezNAS

More than 40 UC Irvine Master of Legal and Forensic Psychology students, faculty & staff attended the women's basketball game at Bren Events Center Thursday to cheer on Anteater player, alum ('24, BA criminology, law & society) and current MLFP student Nevaeh Dean. #AnteaterPride #zotzotzot #24soars

UC Irvine Distinguished Professor Elizabeth Loftus is on the Feb. 8 panel Tech Challenges to Truth in the Age of AI and Algorithms at Facts Under Fire: Reporting in Impossible Times, the 2025 Forum for the Academy and the Public annual conference in UCI Law's EDU 1111. sites.uci.edu/factsunderfire/

This was the same finding in Orange County, California in the poll conducted by @ucisocialecology.bsky.social.

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Happy Year of the Snake from Jon Gould, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology. Click through for his special Lunar New Year message that looks back at what we've accomplished over the previous year. #AllinforAll #zotzotzot #YearoftheSnake #lunarnewyear bit.ly/JBGlny25

Donald Trump will not like the latest UCI-OC Poll results from the University of California, Irvine's School of Social Ecology. Neither will Gavin Newsom. Read why:
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Former California State Senator Josh Newman has joined UC Irvine’s School of Social Ecology as an unpaid senior fellow. He will host events, co-teach a class with Dean Jon Gould on California’s future and help the school in attracting the attention of policymakers. tinyurl.com/JNfellowSE