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AI and local democracy | Policy Innovation Day at @UCIrvine brings together researchers and practitioners to share civic chatbot expertise, lessons learned
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ALT Policy Innovation Day participants stand together in the Beckman Center lobby.
Our next grad spotlight features Derek Tran, economics M.S. ’21, Ph.D. ’24. When Derek started graduate school at @UCIrvine, he expected to become a professor. ...
ALT Derek Tran in his cap and gown at commencement.
Along the way, he discovered something he hadn’t expected: an economics Ph.D. can take you anywhere. “Eighty percent of what I use day-to-day in a job like this comes from the knowledge gained from the Ph.D. program, whether it’s causal, Bayesian or structural economics.” ...
“Personally, I think economics is the best degree to get. You could argue for computer science or AI, but econ gives you an understanding of the world you can’t get anywhere else.”
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A passion for people and purpose | With her return to @UCIrvine social sciences as the new assistant dean, Jennifer dos Santos is finding joy in reconnecting with familiar faces and reengaging with the school’s boundaryless mission
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ALT Jennifer dos Santos
Over the last few decades, the number of competitive congressional races has declined dramatically. Yet candidates and officeholders dial for more and more dollars each election, and they do so earlier and earlier in the campaign cycle. ...
ALT Danielle Thomsen
Why is fundraising so important in American elections today? In our latest UCI Experts On installment, @dmariethomsen, @ucirvine political scientist & author of The Money Signal: How Fundraising Matters in American Politics, shows that money isn’t just a resource - it’s a signal.
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Next up in our grad spotlight series is Jiaxuan Li. She chose @UCIrvine because she saw a rare intellectual culture. "The department fosters an atmosphere of intellectual conversation. Everyone is so interested in research & so willing to share their expertise & interests." ...
ALT Jiaxuan Li at Big Bear Lake in 2022.
Congratulations to @weatherall_jim, @UCIrvine Chancellor’s Professor and department chair of logic & philosophy of science, who has been elected a fellow of the American Physical Society!
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ALT Jim Weatherall
Nominated by his peers through the society’s Forum on History & Philosophy of Physics, Weatherall is recognized for his “substantial contributions to the foundations of classical field theories and the philosophy of physics; ...