NEWS

Social sciences graduate programs earn top dollar funding, prestigious awards

2012 marks the highest grossing year for graduate grants and fellowships in social sciences

In memoriam: Ian J. Scofield, '09 alumnus

Cognitive sciences graduate alumnus

Jackie Lacey UCI alumnus elected LA county's first female and African American DA

Jackie Lacey, psychology '79, heads the nation's largest local prosecutorial office

Greg Hickok What's so special about mirror neurons?

Greg Hickok, cognitive sciences professor and Center for Language Science director, is quoted in Scientific American Blog Network and Yahoo! News November 6, 2012

Mike D'Zmura UCI's Cognitive NeuroSystems Lab featured in YouTube ad

Lab run by cognitive scientist Mike D'Zmura

Jon Sprouse Sprouse receives early career award from LSA

Honor recognizes the cognitive scientist for work on syntactic theory

Intelligence agencies turn to crowdsourcing

A research study led by cognitive sciences professor Mark Steyvers and cognitive sciences visiting researchers Dirk Warnaar and Youngwon Shin is featured by the BBC on October 10, 2012

Don Hoffman Set science free – A review by Donald D. Hoffman

A review by Don Hoffman, cognitive sciences professor, is featured on Beliefnet September 17, 2012

New faculty in social sciences bring diverse research expertise and experience

Interests span public policy innovation, social inequality, environmental politics, philosophy of mathematics and of physics, and human decision making processes

Brewer and Elyachar receive social sciences research excellence awards

Each honor carries a $5,000 prize