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“A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life” ★
UCI School of Law, EDU 1111The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and the UCI Department of Informatics present "A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life" Ruha Benjamin Associate Professor of African American Studies Princeton University Friday, February 7, 2020 2:00 - 3:00 pm UCI School of Law, EDU…
The Science of Happiness ✚
Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA, United StatesThe Science of Happiness DATE Wed, 02/12/2020 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm LOCATION Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, 100 Academy Way, Irvine, CA 92617 DETAILS Sarah Pressman will discuss the science of happiness Feb. 12, 6 p.m. at the Beckman Center. Pressman, associate professor of psychological science, studies stress, positive emotions,…
11th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium ♥ ★
UCI Gross Hall11th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium – February 21, 2020 – (Location: UCI Gross Hall) Please join REMIND and UCI MIND for its 11th Annual Emerging Scientists Symposium on Friday, February 21st in Gross Hall with keynote speaker, Carol Barnes, PhD, Regents’ Professor of Psychology, Neurology, and Neuroscience at the University of Arizona. Register HERE by…
The Diversity – Innovation Paradox in Science ✚
ZoomThe Diversity – Innovation Paradox in Science Professor Daniel McFarland Stanford Graduate School of Education Monday, May 18, 2020 12:00-1:30 pm Register in advance to connect via Zoom https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_sPQJni2iSPOhPVLLyLRIFA Abstract Prior work finds a diversity paradox: Diversity breeds innovation, yet underrepresented groups that diversify organizations have less successful careers within them. Does the diversity…
UCI Great Big Read: Famed Author Nnedi Okorafor Presents on July 9 ♥
ZoomWorld-renowned science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor presents as part of a virtual UCI Great Big Read event at noon on Thursday, July 9. A distinguished author, she is recipient of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, Locus and Lodestar Awards and her debut novel, Zahrah the Windseeker, won the prestigious Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature. Her…
From the Cosmos to COVID-19, a Career in Science Journalism ★
ZoomFrom the Cosmos to COVID-19, a Career in Science Journalism Nicholas St. Fleur | Science Journalist April 21, 2021 5:00PM - 6:00PM PT REGISTER FOR THIS WEBINAR As a New York Times science journalist, Nicholas has covered the cosmos, dinosaurs, evolution and humanity's ancient past. In this talk, Nicholas will speak to what it's like writing…