“Hearing the phone calls and reading the letters brings the direct, unfiltered experiences of incarcerated people into ...

By Matt Coker For Cory Olson, navigating high-stakes environments and demanding schedules is second nature. Lo ...

UC Irvine's School of Social Ecology will gather on Oct. 26 to honor its finest educators, researchers and servant-scholars at its inaugural Faculty Awards ceremony — a celebration recognizing the ...

In the late 1800s, newspapers ran alarming headlines about a dangerous new technology corrupting the nation’s youth. Books. Kids were sneaking off to libraries to read Horatio Alger, and parents were ...

A program that has transformed 76 lives, wiping felony records clean for young men who earned it, has received a major financial lifeline. The Samueli Foundation has awarded $500,000 to Orange ...

For more than two decades, Charis E. Kubrin has followed the data wherever it leads. As UC Irvine Chancellor’s Professor of Criminology, Law and Society, she has built a career studying one of America ...

Four months from Election Day, Orange County refuses to tip its hand. A new survey, conducted by the UC Irvine School of Social Ecology and released today, finds the race for governor virtually tied ...

For the third year running, UC Irvine buzzed with an unusual kind of final assignment — one that asked students not to cram for tests, but to make strangers smile. Hundreds of students enrolled in ...

The headlines scream teenagers are in crisis. Professor Candice L. Odgers says a closer look at the data supports a resilient, not an anxious, generation. A developmental psychologist at UC Irvine, ...

For years, Joseph Johnson lived in what he describes as total silence. Not the silence of a prison cell, though he had that too, but the silence of a man who could not read. Could not write. Could not ...

At 16, Tully looked fine from the outside. Inside, they were battling depression, self-harm, and suicidal thoughts — with no idea how to ask for help. Their brother Olly began experiencing psychosis ...

America has always been divided over politics, but now it’s personal. A new study from UC Irvine psychologists reveals a fracturing nation as political divides shatter friendships, tear apart families ...