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May 27, 2025
May
- May 27, 2025, Opinion: California’s top educator should be an appointed expert, not an elected politician
Josh Newman, Los Angeles Times, also ran in Yahoo News and MSN - May 25, 2025, U.S. attorney in L.A. moves to ‘neutralize’ California’s sanctuary rules
Charis Kubrin, Los Angeles Times, also ran in Yahoo News - May 22, 2025, Congratulations to the Political Science Scholars Elected to the 2025 Class of the Andrew Carnegie Fellowship Program
Urban Planning and Public Policy, Political Science Now - May 21, 2025, Project Kinship expands to larger space in Santa Ana
Steve Kim, Daily Pilot - May 19, 2025, CalHOPE Courage Award winners Bermudez, Wang overcame physical and mental health challenges
Will Bermudez, The Associated Press, also ran in Yahoo Sports, MSN and The Washington Post - May 15, 2025, Court Should Reject Drake’s ‘Dangerous’ Assumption That Rap Lyrics Are Factual In Case Against UMG, Scholars Argue
Charis Kubrin, Music Business Worldwide - May 15, 2025, Drake’s Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Is ‘Dangerous,’ Legal Scholars Warn
Charis E. Kubrin, Billboard - May 14, 2025, ‘Motivated and inspired’: California inmates are improving mental health behind bars
Keramet Reiter, The Christian Science Monitor - May 12, 2025, Igniting Solutions
School of Social Ecology, Climate & Urban Sustainability Program, UNE News Express - May 12, 2025, After Trump immigration order, ICE ‘force multiplier’ agreements with Texas police surge
Charis Kubrin, KXAN - May 8, 2025 (Podcast), Tech News Briefing
Stephen Schueller, The Wall Street Journal - May 7, 2025, Zuckerberg’s Grand Vision: Most of Your Friends Will Be AI
Stephen Schueller, The Wall Street Journal, also ran in MSN - May 6, 2025, States push to combat human trafficking amid federal funding cuts
Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation, New Jersey Monitor - May 6, 2025, Why Is Everybody Hating on Richie Rich?
Paul Piff, Mother Jones - May 5, 2025, Cheapest Car Insurance in California
Jessica Borelli, Wallet Hub - May 2, 2025, Wildfire Resilience – Science, Community & Policy
Michael Méndez, PBS News – 2025 Reframe Festival - May 2, 2025, Trump gutted two landmark environmental reports — can researchers save them?
Nícola Ulibarrí, Nature - May 2, 2025, Judge Hannah Dugan's arrest raises questions about jurisdiction, preserving judicial integrity
Jon Gould, UPI
April
- April 30, 2025, What makes you happy?
Susan Charles, The New York Times Magazine - April 29, 2025, Evaluating Forensic Science: How Good are Forensic Feature Comparison Methods?
Nicholas Scurich, The Forensic Mind - April 28, 2025, How spin and falsehoods propelled Trump's immigration crackdown in his first 100 days
Charis Kubrin, PolitiFact - April 28, 2025, Dana Point Rocks: Breaking Into Music
Richard Matthew, Dana Point Times - April 28, 2025, The Best Advice I’ve Ever Heard for How to Be Happy
Sarah Pressman, The New York Times - April 27, 2025, Savor The Good Stuff & Rewire Your Brain For Connection With This Journaling Approach
Jessica Borelli, MindBodyGreen - April 27, 2025, Louisiana could make it harder for wrongfully convicted people to get compensation
National Registry of Exonerations, The Times-Picayune & New Orleans Advocate Online/NOLA.com - April 23, 2025, Uncertainty is on the rise. Here’s how people can cope
Paul Piff, Science News - April 19, 2025, The Trump Billionaires Who Run the Economy and the Things They Say
Paul K. Piff, The New York Times - April 17, 2025, Judge questions ‘propriety’ of Kansas death penalty law in KC-area murder case
Mona Lynch, The Kansas City Star - April 14, 2025, Millions of Americans don’t speak English. Now they won’t be warned before weather disasters.
Michael Méndez, Grist, also ran in Yahoo News - April 14, 2025, Opinion | Crime fighting efforts should start with Trump's buddies
Charis Kubrin, The Capital Times - April 11, 2025, Former Sen. Josh Newman is now running for California’s schools chief
Josh Newman and Jon Gould, The Orange County Register - April 9, 2025, Teens are embracing AI — but largely not for cheating, survey finds
Candice Odgers, K-12 Dive, also ran in Yahoo Finance - April 8, 2025, National Weather Service halts automated translation for alerts
Michael Méndez, The Washington Post, also ran in MSN Weather - April 8, 2025, Dealing with psychological weight of economic uncertainty
Alison Holman, KTVU - April 7, 2025, This Simple Therapy Technique Can Strengthen All Your Relationships
Jessica Borelli, Oprah Daily - April 6, 2025, 30 years behind bars: How Erik and Lyle Menendez have spent their lives in prison
Gabe Rosales, CNN - April 2, 2025, Do smartphones and social media really harm teens’ mental health?
Candice Odgers, Nature
March
- March 28, 2025, The Self-Help Guru Rivaling Joe Rogan’s Podcast Reign
Stephen Schueller, The Wall Street Journal - March 28, 2025, The Self-Help Guru Rivaling Joe Rogan’s Podcast Reign
Stephen Schueller, The Wall Street Journal - March 28, 2025, Valley State Prison hosts CALPIA graduation
Susan Turner, California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation - March 27, 2025, Study Reveals Democrats and Republicans' Views on Kavanaugh Hearings
Roxane Cohen Silver, Life Technology - March 27, 2025, Partisan divide in perceptions of Ford-Kavanaugh hearings revealed
Roxane Cohen Silver, Phys.org - March 27, 2025, Barriers to affordable housing found—research recommends establishing regional authority
Ajay Garde, Phys.org - March 26, 2025, Groundbreaking criminal justice starts in Santa Ana courtroom
Elizabeth Cauffman, The Orange County Register - March 25, 2025, Kids having smartphones is likely fine and may even be beneficial (Opinion)
Candice Odgers, Tampa Bay Times - March 23, 2025, San Diego County police departments largely abandoned a controversial gang database — but not these two
Ana Muñiz, The San Diego Union Tribune, also ran in MSN - March 22, 2025, Inside the hours of terror among surviving roommates the night of the Idaho student murders
Elizabeth Cauffman, CNN, also ran in Yahoo News and AOL.com - March 21, 2025, SoCal couple weigh their options as housing costs rise in Orange County
Jon Gould, KNBC - March 21, 2025, USAID suspension will strengthen China and exacerbate suffering, former official says during UCI talk
School of Social Ecology, The Orange County Register - March 19, 2025, How will ‘Little Scandinavia’ experiment play out in U.S. prisons?
Keramet Reiter, Science - March 14, 2025, Shielding immigrants may be at the top of public safety issues in Sacramento this year
Charis Kubrin, Los Angeles Times - March 11, 2025, How Did COVID Shape a Generation of Kids? What the Data Show
Candice Odgers, Scientific American - March 10, 2025, The Growing Challenge of Urban Wildfires
Michael Méndez, National Academies - March 10, 2025, How the science of savoring can help you nurture your relationships
Jessica Borelli, NPR - March 5, 2025, What Collective Trauma Feels Like
Roxane Cohen Silver, Psychology Today - March 3, 2025, A sanctuary law aimed to ‘Trump-proof’ California on immigration. What has it accomplished?
Charis Kubrin, Los Angeles Times
February
- Feb. 28, 2025, Trump has reduced US safeguards against corruption and white-collar crime
Henry Pontell, The Christian Science Monitor - Feb. 28, 2025, Dana Point Rocks: The Power of Music
Richard Matthew and Anna Kamanzi, DP Times - Feb. 27, 2025, Is rap on trial? How lyrics can be used against rappers in courtrooms
Charis Kubrin, Miami Herald - Feb. 26, 2025, UTA study finds potential link between parental divorce and stroke later in life
E. Alison Holman, The Dallas Morning News - Feb. 21, 2025, Will Construction Jams on the 55 Freeway Payoff for Commuters?
Alejandra Reyes, Voice of OC Feb. 20, 2025, Why Trump’s water releases were dangerous for California’s levees
Michael Méndez, The Guardian- Feb. 17, 2025, New Mexico DA Says Deportation Fears Are Making Domestic Violence Victims Stay Silent, Letting More Abusers Walk Free
Charis Kubrin, The Latin Times, also ran in MSN Feb. 15, 2025,New psychology research uncovers an unexpected benefit of smiling
Jazlyn H. Luu (2022, BA psychological science), PsyPost- Feb. 13, 2025, Democrats Favor Kamala Harris in California's Governor Race: Poll
School of Social Ecology, Newsweek - Feb. 12, 2025, Your Love Life on Ozempic
Jessica Borelli, Wired - Feb. 12, 2025, Why communities only seem to come together during a crisis, according to science
Alison Holman, Fast Company - Feb. 11, 2025 Opinion: Firearm Forensics Is Still Troubled by Systemic Failure
Nicholas Scurich, Scientific American - Feb. 10, 2025, 2025 Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award Nominees
Richard Matthew, School of Social Ecology, Center for The Power of Musicand Social Change, Orange County Business Journal - Feb. 7, 2025, New O.C. Equity Report reveals challenges, a path forward
Walter Nicholls, Carolina Valdivia, Daily Pilot - Feb. 6, 2025, Trump Orders and Atmospheric Rivers: How Prepared Are California's Levees?
Michael Méndez, KQED, also ran in LAis - Feb. 6, 2025, Kamala Harris Comeback? California Governor Talk Grows
School of Social Ecolog, Newsweek - Feb. 5, 2025, What We Recall, What We Rewrite: Memory and Communication with Elizabeth Loftus
Elizabeth Loftus, Truth Be Told - Feb. 4, 2025, Brian Williams’ Career-Changing 2015 Controversy, Revisited
Elizabeth Loftus, MSN – TV Insider - Feb. 4, 2025, Struggling with your mental health after surviving a disaster? Here’s how to look after yourself
Roxane Cohen Silver, Associated Press - Feb. 3, 2025 (Audio), Farmworkers in the L.A. area have little to no protection from wildfire smoke
Michael Méndez, NPR - Feb. 3, 2024, New policy briefs offer strategies to tackle prison violence
Nancy Rodriguez, Phys.org - Feb. 3, 2025, Glasser Gift Helps UCI Surpass $2B Fundraising Goal
School of Social Ecology, Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change, Orange County Business Journal - Feb. 2, 2025, Trump's New Order Takes Aim at California's Sanctuary Law
Charis Kubrin, Los Angeles Magazine - Feb. 1, 2025 Column: Kill right turns on red; they’re dangerous, study finds
Sarah L. Catz, The Orange County Register
January
- Jan. 31, 2025, Heightened deportation fears could lead to underreporting crimes, less cooperation with police, scholars say
Charis Kubrin, The Orange County Register - Jan. 30, 2025, These Are The Best FL Colleges For Online Degrees: US News
MAS, Patch - Jan. 30, 2025, Column: Orange County once was an anti-immigrant hotbed. What changed?
School of Social Ecology, Los Angeles Times, also ran in Yahoo News - Jan. 29, 2025 (Audio), Collective trauma: the psychological fallout of the LA fires
E. Alison Holman, LAist - AirTalk - Jan. 29, 2025, Eight Tips For Talking With Your Kids About Death
Jessica Borelli, Kaitlin Lord, Greater Good Magazine - Jan. 28, 2025, Trump wants to break California’s sanctuary state law: 5 things to know
Charis Kubrin, LAist, also ran in KQED, ABC10 - Jan. 28, 2025, Trump wants to break California’s sanctuary state law: 5 things to know
Charis Kubrin, CalMatters, also ran in MSN - Jan. 27, 2025, Newsletter
Michael Mendez, Politico - Jan. 26, 2025, FEMA disbands membership of Katrina-era advisory committee
Michael Méndez, Politico Pro - Jan. 24, 2025, Drake Gives founder gives major gift to UC Irvine
Alec Glasser Center of the Power of Music and Social Change, Laguna Beach Independent - Jan. 23, 2025, These Are The Best MA Colleges For Online Degrees: US News
MAS, Patch - Jan. 23, 2025 (Video), Coping with traumatic events like wildfires
E. Alison Holman, KTVU - Jan. 23, 2025 Opinion: After the Los Angeles fires stop burning, another grave risk to lives and property looms
Brett Sanders, Doug Houston, Los Angeles Times - Jan. 22, 2025, False posts claim California governor rezoning Pacific Palisades
Nicholas Marantz, AFP, also ran in Yahoo News and MSN - Jan. 22, 2025, Drake Gives Founder Provides Major Gift to Endow Center for the Power of Music
Alec Glasser Center of the Power of Music and Social Change, Newport Beach Independent - Jan. 21, 2025 (Podcast), Wildfire Impact on Latino Communities
Michael Méndez, Capital Pacific Radio - Insight with Vicki Gonzalez - Jan. 21, 2025, O.C. Registrar of Voters debunks viral election fraud claim
Jon Gould, Daily Pilot - Jan. 21, 2025, Best Online Master's in Criminal Justice Programs
Master of Advance Study in criminology, U.S. News & World Report - Jan. 17, 2025 (Newsletter), California Playbook
Josh Newman, Politico - Jan. 17, 2025, Trump promised mass deportations. Here’s one way they could quietly happen
Charis E. Kubrin, The Texas Tribune, also ran in Yahoo News - Jan. 16, 2025, Former Sen. Josh Newman joins UC Irvine to teach a class on California’s future
Josh Newman, Jon Gould, The Orange County Register - Jan. 14, 2025, Drake Gives founder provides major gift to fully endow the UC Irvine Alec Glasser Center for the Power of Music and Social Change
Jon Gould, Stu News Laguna - Jan. 14, 2025, Laguna Beach developer, restaurateur makes largest gift to date to UCI’s School of Social Ecology
Jon Gould, Richard Matthew, Daily Pilot - Jan. 13, 2025, No, California lawmakers did not decriminalize looting
Charis Kubrin, Verify This - Jan. 13, 2025, For Laguna Beach philanthropist Alec Glasser, endowing new UCI center on the ‘power of music’ is personal
Jon Gould, Richard Matthew, The Orange County Register - Jan. 11, 2025, Kids Turn to a Mental-Health Chatbot to Share Their Anxieties
Stephen Schueller, The Wall Street Journal - Jan. 10, 2025, There’s a reason you can’t stop doomscrolling through L.A.’s fire disaster
Roxane Cohen Silver, Los Angeles Times - Jan. 8, 2025, Is Wyandotte County the beginning of the end of Kansas’ death penalty? Judge to decide
Mona Lynch, The Kansas City Star - Jan. 8, 2025, ‘Highest level of integrity’: Grand jury report affirms credibility of O.C. elections
Jon Gould, Daily Pilot - Jan. 6, 2025, Will Huntington Beach’s Legal Argument of Limited Independence Hold up in Court?
Nicholas Marantz, Voice of OC - Jan. 4, 2025, Why the American dream of owning property is dying
Jon Gould, Yahoo News (The Telegraph), also ran in MSN - Jan. 1, 2025, Doing Dry January? 9 tips to get you across the finish line
Jessica Borelli, LAist
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