Living the Dream: UCI
This is a podcast about the people who are literally living the dream either attending or working at one of the greatest educational organizations on the west coast: University of California, Irvine.
Episodes
October 29, 2020 • 23 mins
Here we talk about system impacted people and getting them registered to vote and exercise their rights to participate in the democratic process in the United States.
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September 26, 2020 • 86 mins
This was an interview with Dr. Peter Kropp who works for the English department, the Film and Digital Media Department, and the Informatics Department at UCI. His interdisciplinary research focuses on the use of models and simulations to predict our collective futures and to train the people to use valuable equipment effectively.
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September 26, 2020 • 45 mins
I was extremely fortunate have the opportunity to interview one of very few researchers who works in Language Acquisition at UCI, and I cannot begin to express how fascinating this field is.
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July 14, 2020 • 33 mins
Young-Suk Grace Kim, Ed.D., is a professor at University of California, Irvine. She received her Ed.D. at Harvard University in Human Development and Psychology with a concentration on Language and Literacy, and a minor concentration on Quantitative Policy Analysis in Education. She holds Master’s degrees in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) as well as in Human Development and Culture. She was a former classro...
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July 14, 2020 • 33 mins
Dr Carol Connor is the Chancellor's Professor at UCI's School of Education and her research focuses on examining the links between children’s language, cognitive, social-emotional, and literacy and mathematics development from preschool through the elementary grades. Understanding these links may illuminate reasons for the perplexing difficulties children who are atypical and diverse learners have developing basic and advanced read...
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July 14, 2020 • 51 mins
Dr. Piomelli was trained in neuroscience and pharmacology. Research in his lab is focused on the function of lipid-derived messengers, with particular emphasis on the endogenous cannabinoids anandamide and 2-arachidonoylglycerol. Current research efforts converge on three areas: formation and deactivation of anandamide and 2-arachidonylglycerol; physiological roles of the endogenous cannabinoid system; development of therapeutic ag...
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July 14, 2020 • 59 mins
Aaron Bornstein, cognitive sciences assistant professor at UC Irvine, studies human memory and the ways memory guides decisions.
Aaron Bornstein, cognitive sciences assistant professor at UC Irvine, studies human memory and the ways memory guides decisions. Whether subconsciously or consciously, when a new situation is encountered, memory helps us to generalize from past experiences to make sense of our current environment, he says...
Aaron Bornstein, cognitive sciences assistant professor at UC Irvine, studies human memory and the ways memory guides decisions. Whether subconsciously or consciously, when a new situation is encountered, memory helps us to generalize from past experiences to make sense of our current environment, he says...
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July 14, 2020 • 31 mins
Dr Bolzendahl is an associate professor in the department of sociology at UCI. Dr Bolzendahl's ongoing work focuses on better understanding the institutionalization of gender within political organizations and legislative institutions, with a recent publication in Gender & Society and a chapter in a forthcoming edited volume with colleagues Amy Alexander and Farida Jalalzai. Her book Measuring Women’s Political Empowerment across t...
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July 14, 2020 • 43 mins
Maria Rendon is an Associate Professor of Urban Planning and Public Policy, and she has recently written a book titled Stagnant Dreamers that describes the challenges they face coming of age in the inner city and accessing higher education and good jobs and demonstrates how family-based social ties and community institutions can serve as buffers against neighborhood violence, chronic poverty, incarceration, and other negative outco...
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July 14, 2020 • 33 mins
Charis Elizabeth Kubrin is an American criminologist and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of California, Irvine (UCI).
Kubrin's research focuses on, among other topics, the relationship between race, violence, and social disorganization theory. She has also researched the perception of rap music as violent and dangerous, as well as whether a rapper's music can be used as evidence against him in a court of...
Kubrin's research focuses on, among other topics, the relationship between race, violence, and social disorganization theory. She has also researched the perception of rap music as violent and dangerous, as well as whether a rapper's music can be used as evidence against him in a court of...
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