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California in Crisis- UCSD Social Sciences professors Marisa Abrajano, Thad Kousser, Isaac Martin and Bud Mehan discussed the California budget crisis, its effect on the state and possible solutions for recovery on May 25, 2010, at the Natural History Museum in Balboa Park. The discussion was moderated by Dean Jeff Elman and will be broadcast at a later date by UCSDTV. Click here for more information. To view the state governance rerform website mentioned at the talk by Prof. Thad Kousser, click here.
Faculty Excellence- Keith Rayner of Psychology has won a Chancellor.s Associates Faculty Excellence Award in the humanities and social sciences research category. To view a video about Rayner's research, go here.
California's Education Crisis- The California budget and several other factors have combined to put the Golden State.s once-shining public education system into one of its deepest crises. Division faculty are responding with an innovative, team-taught course, offered through Ethnic Studies and open to the public.
Caught Up in the 'Rug Rat Race'- College-educated mothers in the United States have dramatically increased the time they spend on childcare, especially on "chauffeuring" to organized activities — in the hopes of getting their kids into elite colleges, say Garey and Valerie Ramey of Economics.
One Good Deed Begets Another and Another and Another...- Cooperation cascades through a social network, according to the first experimental findings on the contagion of cooperative behavior, by James Fowler of Political Science.
You'll Shun the New If You're Feeling Blue- A negative mood imparts a warm glow to the familiar, while happiness makes novelty attractive, according to work by Piotr Winkielman of Psychology.
School Improvement Study Funded- Alan J. Daly of Education Studies has won a William T. Grant Foundation grant for a study of how schools use research evidence in the service of school improvement.
Calling on Colbert- James Fowler of Political Science appeared on The Colbert Report to discuss his book Connected: The Surprising Power of Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives.
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