Di Xu, professor of education and CPIP affiliate, and her co-investigators XunFei Li and Loris Fagioli have received a grant from Arnold Ventures to study the statewide effects of Assembly Bill 705, California’s major developmental education reform. Read more at education.uci.edu/grant-ab705.....

“For the third time in her distinguished career, Candice L. Odgers has earned a coveted spot on Clarivate's 2025 'Highly Cited Researchers' list — a testament to her groundbreaking work exploring how technology and social inequality shape young lives.” clarivate.com/highly-cited...

Constantine Manda has received a 2025 Advancing Research Grant for Early Career Scholars from the American Political Science Association. politicalsciencenow.com/meet-constan...

Alana M.W. LeBrón co-authored a policy brief in Health Affairs. Dr. LeBrón is an Associate Professor in the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health and CPIP faculty affiliate. www.healthaffairs.org/content/brie...

María Rendón and David Schaefer, both CPIP faculty affiliates, published, "Social Reproduction at a Minority Serving Institution: STEM Capital Disparities among Children of Immigrants," in the October 2025 issue of Sociology of Education. Rendón is featured in the publication’s podcast.

Charis E. Kubrin has received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology – a prestigious award considered the field’s Nobel Prize equivalent. Dr. Kubrin is recognized for decades of research challenging the notion that immigrants bring crime to their new communities. news.uci.edu/2025/11/13/u...

The W.K. Kellogg Foundation has recognized ¡Plo-NO! (Lead-Free) Santa Ana! by Orange County Environmental Justice Education Fund and CPIP-affiliates Alana LeBrón and Jun Wu as an Exemplary Project through its Community Engagement Scholarship Awards program. publichealth.uci.edu/2025/10/17/u...

Julian Gerez, assistant professor of criminology, law and society and CPIP affiliate, is interviewed as part of a developing story segment on CNN Live discussing U.S. actions in Columbia and Venezuela. Watch CNN's segment: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAiy...

Daniel Parker was elected as a Fellow National into The Explorers Club, in recognition of his field-based and exploratory work in Myanmar, Southeast Asia and South America. publichealth.uci.edu/2025/06/13/d...

Congratulations to Vellore Arthi of UCI's Department of Economics, who has received tenure, and to Di Xu, of UCI's School of Education, who has been promoted to professor.

Suellen Hopfer has been named Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year! Prof. Hopfer of the Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health has received UCI’s Dr. De Gallow Professor of the Year award for excellence in undergraduate teaching. Recipients are nominated by peers, students, and staff.

UCI CPIP hosted a two-week residential program for the next generation of scholars in population sciences (NextGenPop) that brought 17 students to campus for advanced instruction, career development and networking. www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Paola Guerrero Rosada of the School of Education and Carolina Valdivia of Criminology, Law, and Society have been named Hellman Fellows. UCI's Hellman Fellowship supports promising junior faculty as they pursue innovative, high-impact research.

Charis Kubrin, professor of Criminology, Law, and Society, has published a policy brief titled “Rethinking Immigration Enforcement” with the Scholars Strategy Network. Read it at scholars.org/contribution....

Congratulations to Kelley Fong and Andy de Barros who received a prestigious fellowship from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation. The fellowship recognizes early-career scholars making significant scholarly contributions to education research. education.uci.edu/naed_spencer...

KCBS Radio anchor Margie Shafer spoke with Andrew Noymer, epidemiologist and demographer at UC Irvine, about the Trump administration's announcement that it will be making changes to the way new COVID vaccines are approved. Listen at www.audacy.com/podcast/kcbs...

Denise Payán, MPP, PhD has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award for next academic year. She will examine nutrition policy design and implementation in Australia with colleagues at the University of Sydney. The U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board issued the award.

Brittany Morey, an Associate Professor in the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health, discusses how COVID fallout leaves many Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders without adequate care in the Los Angeles Post. www.lapost.com/articles/cov...

Charis Kubrin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, has been named a UCDC Presidential Fellow. She joins an elite group of University of California faculty selected to bring their research expertise to policymakers in Washington, D.C. socialecology.uci.edu/news/kubrin-...

Jun Wu & colleagues at @ucipopcenter.bsky.social study on #wildfire health impacts and community inequities faced by families in Eastern Coachella Valley is receiving a lot of attention: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #smoke #socialvulnerability #publichealth

John Templeton Foundation awards grant to Stephen Schueller! The professor of psychological sciences and CPIP affiliate has received funding for a project titled “Addressing Risks in Online Spaces with Character Development through Digital Micro-Interventions.” socialecology.uci.edu/news/cultiva...

Denise Payán, a health policy expert and assoc. prof. at UCI's Wen Public Health, contributed to identifying and proposing relevant regulatory and policy guidelines and strategies on the equity implications in the adoption of large language models in healthcare delivery.

Andrew Penner has received the Dean’s Award for Outstanding Teaching Innovation from the School of Social Sciences. Andrew Penner is a Professor of Sociology, the Director of Undergraduate Studies and Honors Program, and the Director of the Center for Administrative Data Analysis at UC Irvine.

Bernadette Boden-Albala, founding dean of the UC Irvine Joe C. Wen School of Population & Public Health, has written A Scientific, Economic and Ethical Reflection on Women’s (Health) History for Forbes. www.forbes.com/sites/bernad...

Denise Payán, Assoc. Prof., with Wen Public Health, has been appointed to serve as a policy expert at UC Merced’s Nicotine and Cannabis Policy Center (NCPC), a policy and research center established through the UC Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. publichealth.uci.edu/2025/02/13/d...

Jun Wu, Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health in the Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health and CPIP faculty affiliate has received a distinguished mid-career faculty award for research from the UC Irvine Academic Senate. publichealth.uci.edu/2025/03/06/j...

The Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy has been designated an Organized Research Unit (ORU) at UCI! This designation gives CPIP longer term standing. A big thank you to all our faculty affiliates for your contributions to CPIP. www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/n...

Candice Odgers summarizes research about social media use by young people in an article on Crikey. She says, Jonathan Haidt's "...messaging runs counter to the scientific consensus that has been reached to date by the field..." www.crikey.com.au/2024/12/12/a...

The workwear apparel brand Dickies is moving its headquarters from Texas to California. David Neumark, professor of economics at UC Irvine, is interviewed by ABC Eyewitness News. abc7.com/post/dickies....

Kelley Fong, a sociologist at UCI, embedded with caseworkers in Connecticut for six months in 2018 to research their work. The Orange County Register spoke to her for this article. www.ocregister.com/2024/12/06/c...

David Richardson is co-editor for a new book, Bias Assessment in Case–Control and Cohort Studies for Hazard Identification, that provides researchers with strategies to enhance the reliability of public health research and ensure equitable health outcomes.

A first-of-its-kind study, co-led by Denise Payán, examines California's obesity-related legislation over two decades. Findings highlight that while schools and nutrition are key focus areas, significant policy gaps persist, especially in addressing racial and economic disparities.

Paola Andrea Guerrero Rosada, an Assistant Professor of Education and CPIP faculty affiliate, has received funding from the Flamboyan Foundation for a project titled, “Essential Literacy Practices in Puerto Rico: Uptake and implementation of a literacy coaching program.”

Walt Disney has agreed to pay $43.3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that female employees in California earned $150 million less than their male counterparts over an 8-year period. David Neumark, co-director of CPIP, conducted the analysis. www.reuters.com/legal/disney...

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Call for Applications: NextGenPop, an Undergraduate Program in Population Research, seeks applications from students in their junior year for a 2-week, in-person, on-campus summer experience. UC Irvine’s Center for Population, Inequality, and Policy will host it from June 22 – July 3. nextgenpop.org