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.
Meet Don Norman, founding chair of Cognitive Science and now director of the university's new Design Lab, at the next Social Sciences Supper Club. A tapas-and-wine reception begins at 5 p.m. in the UC San Diego Faculty Club. Stimulating conversation about "Design Lab: Attacking the Critical Problems in Society" follows the reception.
Claire Adida of Political Science and colleagues from Stanford and the Paris School of Economics offer some ideas in the Washington Post "Monkey Cage blog for getting past the "vicious circle of discrimination" in which French and Muslims seem to be stuck.
A team of developers that includes Cognitive Science alumna Jelena Jovanovic has won the $500,000 grand prize in Intel’s Make It Wearable challenge for their wrist-mounted camera drone called Nixie. The device can travel a fixed distance from its owner to take a photo or video of them, and then return. Images or video can instantly be shared with friends.
Dedicated to developing practical solutions for our nation’s most pressing problems: The Yankelovich Center for Social Science Research.