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Congratulations to psychological science undergraduate Miguel Soto Troccoly for recently graduating from UC Irvine's Community Police Academy.
November 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Congratulations to psychological science undergraduate Miguel Soto Troccoly for recently graduating from UC Irvine's Community Police Academy.
The School of Social Ecology joins other @ucirvine.bsky.social schools in co-sponsoring the Friends of Roots event "Promoting Dialogue with the Other: Unlikely Partners for Peace" starting at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in the Student Center's Pacific Ballroom C. socialecology.uci.edu/event/promot...
November 17, 2025 at 7:59 PM
The School of Social Ecology joins other @ucirvine.bsky.social schools in co-sponsoring the Friends of Roots event "Promoting Dialogue with the Other: Unlikely Partners for Peace" starting at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 24, in the Student Center's Pacific Ballroom C. socialecology.uci.edu/event/promot...
For the third time in Candice Odgers' distinguished career, the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of psychology and director of research and faculty development for the School of Social Ecology earned a coveted spot on Clarivate's 2025 “Highly Cited Researchers” list. https://ow.ly/Jsk750Xt0Rx
November 17, 2025 at 7:01 PM
For the third time in Candice Odgers' distinguished career, the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of psychology and director of research and faculty development for the School of Social Ecology earned a coveted spot on Clarivate's 2025 “Highly Cited Researchers” list. https://ow.ly/Jsk750Xt0Rx
“ChatGPT was not invented to be your therapist. It was invented to keep you engaged and keep you talking, and we see that’s what it’s doing” - Stephen Schueller, professor of psychology at UC Irvine. https://ow.ly/IH5L50Xrrji
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
“ChatGPT was not invented to be your therapist. It was invented to keep you engaged and keep you talking, and we see that’s what it’s doing” - Stephen Schueller, professor of psychology at UC Irvine. https://ow.ly/IH5L50Xrrji
Urban planning & public policy Associate Professor María G. Rendón of UC Irvine is lead author of a study that offers steps colleges can take to promote academic success in STEM disciplines for underrepresented minority students. https://ow.ly/pL2y50Xrq09
November 15, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Urban planning & public policy Associate Professor María G. Rendón of UC Irvine is lead author of a study that offers steps colleges can take to promote academic success in STEM disciplines for underrepresented minority students. https://ow.ly/pL2y50Xrq09
Read how UC Irvine's Melissa Perez is among the 83% of campus community members who commute via a sustainable transportation mode – in the fourth year social ecology undergraduate's case, a @metrolinksocal.bsky.social train. https://ow.ly/hjxQ50Xrpyy
November 14, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Read how UC Irvine's Melissa Perez is among the 83% of campus community members who commute via a sustainable transportation mode – in the fourth year social ecology undergraduate's case, a @metrolinksocal.bsky.social train. https://ow.ly/hjxQ50Xrpyy
"What this is probably evidence of is that we are not restoring right now in a way that maybe we used to be able to. Even when you're at home, you're not actually resting" - Sarah Pressman, professor of psychology at UC Irvine. https://ow.ly/xNh250XroVV
November 14, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"What this is probably evidence of is that we are not restoring right now in a way that maybe we used to be able to. Even when you're at home, you're not actually resting" - Sarah Pressman, professor of psychology at UC Irvine. https://ow.ly/xNh250XroVV
Host David Bell welcomes to his Lens of a Lawyer podcast Elizabeth Loftus, UC Irvine's Distinguished Professor of psychology, criminology, law & society, and law. Listen here: https://ow.ly/tyMH50XqRKy
November 14, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Host David Bell welcomes to his Lens of a Lawyer podcast Elizabeth Loftus, UC Irvine's Distinguished Professor of psychology, criminology, law & society, and law. Listen here: https://ow.ly/tyMH50XqRKy
Did you know UC Irvine School of Social Ecology scholars and community partners team up to produce cutting-edge research? Example: data from psychology Associate Professor Kate Kuhlman and Project Youth OC on barriers to mental health services among at-risk adolescents.
https://ow.ly/959m50XqKiM
https://ow.ly/959m50XqKiM
November 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Did you know UC Irvine School of Social Ecology scholars and community partners team up to produce cutting-edge research? Example: data from psychology Associate Professor Kate Kuhlman and Project Youth OC on barriers to mental health services among at-risk adolescents.
https://ow.ly/959m50XqKiM
https://ow.ly/959m50XqKiM
Who better than UC Irvine clinical psychology doctoral students to create a video for those thinking of applying to clinical psychology Ph.D. programs? Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPgCtxlFUk&ab_channel=UCIClinicalPsychPhDMentors
November 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Who better than UC Irvine clinical psychology doctoral students to create a video for those thinking of applying to clinical psychology Ph.D. programs? Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkPgCtxlFUk&ab_channel=UCIClinicalPsychPhDMentors
🎉🥳 Congrats to UC Irvine urban planning & public policy PhD candidate Jes Torres Behravesh for having her book review of Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.📚✨
https://ow.ly/NAEL50XqIFN
https://ow.ly/NAEL50XqIFN
November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
🎉🥳 Congrats to UC Irvine urban planning & public policy PhD candidate Jes Torres Behravesh for having her book review of Natalia Molina's A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community published in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies.📚✨
https://ow.ly/NAEL50XqIFN
https://ow.ly/NAEL50XqIFN
🎉✨ Happy World Kindness Day! 🌍💖 The 2025-26 UC Irvine Course Catalog includes the four-unit class The Science and Practice of Compassion. 🌟 Enrollees discover how cutting-edge research is yielding insights into kindness, empathy, altruism and compassion. 💕🎈https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/psci/
November 13, 2025 at 3:02 PM
🎉✨ Happy World Kindness Day! 🌍💖 The 2025-26 UC Irvine Course Catalog includes the four-unit class The Science and Practice of Compassion. 🌟 Enrollees discover how cutting-edge research is yielding insights into kindness, empathy, altruism and compassion. 💕🎈https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/psci/
Read @mikemendezphd.bsky.social's reaction to the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Fellow and associate professor of urban planning and public policy being honored with the Edward Blakely Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. https://ow.ly/fuPN50XpK7j
November 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Read @mikemendezphd.bsky.social's reaction to the UC Irvine Chancellor’s Fellow and associate professor of urban planning and public policy being honored with the Edward Blakely Award from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. https://ow.ly/fuPN50XpK7j
The Wellness Initiative in Social Ecology Peer Advisory Committee (WISE PAC) hosts UC Irvine School of Social Ecology Dean Jon Gould for the next WISE Wednesday presentation Nov. 19. Zoom link:
https://uci.zoom.us/j/96514460007
More info on WISE PAC:
https://uciwise.wixsite.com/wisepac
https://uci.zoom.us/j/96514460007
More info on WISE PAC:
https://uciwise.wixsite.com/wisepac
November 12, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The Wellness Initiative in Social Ecology Peer Advisory Committee (WISE PAC) hosts UC Irvine School of Social Ecology Dean Jon Gould for the next WISE Wednesday presentation Nov. 19. Zoom link:
https://uci.zoom.us/j/96514460007
More info on WISE PAC:
https://uciwise.wixsite.com/wisepac
https://uci.zoom.us/j/96514460007
More info on WISE PAC:
https://uciwise.wixsite.com/wisepac
The UC Irvine School of Social Ecology’s inaugural Community-Engaged Fellows bridge research and action, working alongside organizations to transform lives across Orange County. Watch the presentations here: https://youtu.be/xtWQ-JrS3aQ
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The UC Irvine School of Social Ecology’s inaugural Community-Engaged Fellows bridge research and action, working alongside organizations to transform lives across Orange County. Watch the presentations here: https://youtu.be/xtWQ-JrS3aQ
Urban planning & public policy faculty members Doug Houston, Jessica Garrison and Richard Matthew are among the scholars on UC Irvine Climate Collaboration project grant teams. Matthew's involves wildfires while Houston & Garrison's team examines neighborhood green spaces. https://ow.ly/VXjV50XpL2B
November 12, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Urban planning & public policy faculty members Doug Houston, Jessica Garrison and Richard Matthew are among the scholars on UC Irvine Climate Collaboration project grant teams. Matthew's involves wildfires while Houston & Garrison's team examines neighborhood green spaces. https://ow.ly/VXjV50XpL2B
Parents or legal guardians going through or have gone through permanency proceedings (i.e. court proceedings to determine the long-term, stable living situation for a child in foster care) can take part in a study led by @ucirvine.bsky.social psychology Professor Jessica Borelli. See flier for more.
November 12, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Parents or legal guardians going through or have gone through permanency proceedings (i.e. court proceedings to determine the long-term, stable living situation for a child in foster care) can take part in a study led by @ucirvine.bsky.social psychology Professor Jessica Borelli. See flier for more.
BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize —
the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u
the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u
November 11, 2025 at 11:26 PM
BREAKING NEWS: Charis Kubrin, UC Irvine professor of criminology, law & society, wins criminology’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize —
the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u
the prestigious Stockholm Prize —for her groundbreaking research on immigration and crime. Congratulations Dr. Kubrin! https://ow.ly/UJ1W50Xqh5u
Congratulations to Neyda Herrera (’25, BAs psychological science and criminology, law & society) for enrolling in @ucirvine.bsky.social alum ’s accelerated paralegal program. Psychology teaching Professor Joanne Zinger’s former research assistant begins the certificate program Jan. 5, 2026.
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Congratulations to Neyda Herrera (’25, BAs psychological science and criminology, law & society) for enrolling in @ucirvine.bsky.social alum ’s accelerated paralegal program. Psychology teaching Professor Joanne Zinger’s former research assistant begins the certificate program Jan. 5, 2026.
Violent incidents where the offenders and the victims are of different races “is extremely uncommon.” It is “the exception rather than the rule” - Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law & society at @ucirvine.bsky.social.
A train stabbing in North Carolina becomes fuel for old racial tropes in politics and media
After a Ukrainian woman who fled war in her homeland was stabbed to death on a commuter train in North Carolina, the alarming act of violence has ignited bitter racial and political rhetoric about crime victims and perpetrators in America.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Violent incidents where the offenders and the victims are of different races “is extremely uncommon.” It is “the exception rather than the rule” - Charis Kubrin, professor of criminology, law & society at @ucirvine.bsky.social.
🎉 Happy Veterans Day! 🇺🇸 🌟 Among the UC Irvine psychologists and faculty members who study the mental health of veterans we salute today are Distinguished Professor Roxane Cohen Silver and Associate Professor Alyson Zalta. 💖 #VeteransDay #ThankYouVeterans
November 11, 2025 at 3:03 PM
🎉 Happy Veterans Day! 🇺🇸 🌟 Among the UC Irvine psychologists and faculty members who study the mental health of veterans we salute today are Distinguished Professor Roxane Cohen Silver and Associate Professor Alyson Zalta. 💖 #VeteransDay #ThankYouVeterans
Criminology, law & society/anthropology Professor Susan Bibler Coutin of UC Irvine has been a member of the Law & Society Association for 32 years, but as you'll read, that's not the only reason she deserves a special LSA Member Spotlight: https://ow.ly/u9z250XpAJP
November 11, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Criminology, law & society/anthropology Professor Susan Bibler Coutin of UC Irvine has been a member of the Law & Society Association for 32 years, but as you'll read, that's not the only reason she deserves a special LSA Member Spotlight: https://ow.ly/u9z250XpAJP
It only took 16 years for Col. Gustavo Arellano to return to UC Irvine to teach an Orange County history class. Read all about the Los Angeles Times columnist/past School of Social Ecology commencement speaker/"new" urban planning & public policy instructor here: https://ow.ly/XKWe50XpAfO
November 10, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It only took 16 years for Col. Gustavo Arellano to return to UC Irvine to teach an Orange County history class. Read all about the Los Angeles Times columnist/past School of Social Ecology commencement speaker/"new" urban planning & public policy instructor here: https://ow.ly/XKWe50XpAfO
Attention, UC Irvine urban studies students: professors Doug Houston and Jessica Garrison host a listening session with the Urban Studies Student Association at 5:30 p.m. TODAY in Room 340 of SE1. The aim is to build a stronger urban studies program. No RSVP is required.
November 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Attention, UC Irvine urban studies students: professors Doug Houston and Jessica Garrison host a listening session with the Urban Studies Student Association at 5:30 p.m. TODAY in Room 340 of SE1. The aim is to build a stronger urban studies program. No RSVP is required.
Has it already been a week? School of Social Ecology Director of Communications Mimi Ko Cruz says @ucirvine.bsky.social's third annual Día de los Muertos on Nov. 3 was much more than just another event. Read why (and ogle great photos) here: https://ow.ly/Jw3E50Xo6Tk
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Has it already been a week? School of Social Ecology Director of Communications Mimi Ko Cruz says @ucirvine.bsky.social's third annual Día de los Muertos on Nov. 3 was much more than just another event. Read why (and ogle great photos) here: https://ow.ly/Jw3E50Xo6Tk