UC San Diego’s Division of Social Sciences is a diverse collection of outstanding departments, programs and research units that focus on some of the most pressing and important issues of our time. The division does work that matters, now and to the future.
Carol Padden, a MacArthur award-winning scholar of sign languages and a longtime member of the university community at UC San Diego – first as a graduate student in Linguistics and then a faculty member in Communication – will begin her service as the new dean of social sciences on Oct. 1, 2014.
"Investing in a Post-QE World" with Ken Kroner, doctoral alumnus of Economics and senior managing director of BlackRock. The Economics Roundtable begins at 7:30 a.m. in the UC San Diego Faculty Club.
40th Faculty Excellence Awards: Leslie Carver of Psychology wins the award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and is recognized for her “wise and inspiring” leadership. More news for Carver: a paper by her and undergraduate alumna Chelsea Hays, published in Developmental Science, shows that children who have been lied to are themselves more likely to cheat and lie.
You can catch a mood online? A study led by James Fowler of Political Science shows that Facebook feelings are contagious. Also, postive posts are more viral than negative ones. Coverage includesTIME, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, BBC and many others.
A lever for local STEM education: The STEM Success Initiative, led by CREATE, aims to gather community and university resources to lift the region’s K-20 education in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Dedicated to developing practical solutions for our nation’s most pressing problems: The Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research.
