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Powerful People are Less Likely to be Understanding When Mistakes are Made

July 30, 2021 by Lisa Minniefield

Diversity Inclusion, Culture,

Christine Clark | UC San Diego | June 23, 2021 Those with privilege are less aware of constraints others face and are more likely to punish subordinates, according to new UC San Diego research Those with power, such as the wealthy are more likely to blame others for having shortcomings and they are also less troubled by reports of inequality, according to recent research ... Continue Reading »

National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences elect 36 new UC members

May 5, 2021 by Lisa Minniefield

Arts, Science,

By: UC Newsroom, April 30, 2021 The National Academy of Sciences and American Academy of Arts and Sciences announced their newly elected members this week, expanding their ranks by 11 and 25 UC faculty, respectively. Membership in these prestigious organizations puts one in distinguished company. The National Academy of Sciences was established in 1863 under ... Continue Reading »

COVID-19 isolation linked to increased domestic violence

March 5, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

COVID isolation increasing domestic violence

By Karen Nikos-Rose, UC Davis | February 24, 2021 While COVID-19-related lockdowns may have decreased the spread of a deadly virus, they appear to have created an ideal environment for increased domestic violence. Extra stress in the COVID-19 pandemic caused by income loss, and lack of ability to pay for housing and food has exacerbated the often silent epidemic of intimate ... Continue Reading »

A mass exodus from California? Not exactly

March 5, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

COVID disrupted California migration patterns

By Sean Coffey, UC Berkeley | March 4, 2021 New research released today by the UC Berkeley California Policy Lab finds that, contrary to some news media reports suggesting a mass exodus from California, most moves in 2020 happened within the state. Exits from California in 2020 largely mirrored historical patterns, while the biggest change was a decrease in people ... Continue Reading »

Poor swelter as urban areas of U.S. Southwest get hotter

February 24, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

poor swelter with climate change

By Karen Nikos-Rose, UC Davis | February 18, 2021 Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor. As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit — on average — than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro ... Continue Reading »

Evidence mounts that eco-friendly wine tastes better

February 12, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

organic wine

David Colgan, UC Los Angeles | February 8, 2021 Consumers have shown that they are willing to pay extra for organic produce grown without pesticides, even if it doesn’t taste better. That has not been the case for organic wine. Organic-labeled wines generally sell at prices similar to those of non-organic wines. And that’s despite growing evidence that they actually do ... Continue Reading »

Chumash may have developed the first currency in the Americas

February 12, 2021 by Kathleen Wong

shell currency

By Jim Logan, UC Santa Barbara As one of the most experienced archaeologists studying California’s Native Americans, Lynn Gamble knew the Chumash Indians had been using shell beads as money for at least 800 years.  But an exhaustive review of some of the shell bead record led the UC Santa Barbara professor emerita of anthropology to an astonishing ... Continue Reading »

UCLA, where Korean is the hot language, goes beyond ‘dead white men’ in European studies

January 8, 2021 by lwangdu

By TERESA WATANABE STAFF WRITER FEB. 8, 2021 5 AM PT UCLA senior Yumeng Zhuang fell in love with physics and philosophy as a high school student in her native China. That passion led her to Albert Einstein and Immanuel Kant — and then to a desire to study German so she could read their works as originally written. But her parents weren’t thrilled, pushing her to perfect ... Continue Reading »

UC Davis 2nd for Social Mobility Among National Public Universities

September 1, 2020 by lwangdu

By Julia Ann Easley on September 1, 2020 in University The University of California, Davis, is distinguished among public universities for the upward social mobility it offers graduates, according to Washington Monthly’s annual assessment of U.S. schools based on what they do for the public good. Washington Monthly’s annual college rankings, published online today ... Continue Reading »

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