News & Events
Upcoming Events:
Additional events to be added soon
Selected Recent Events:
- Colloquium: "A New Era of DNA Collections: At What Cost to Civil
Liberties?" featuring Tania Simoncelli, Science Advisor in the
Technology & Liberty Program of the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU)
Thursday, January 31, 2008
12 - 2pm in Social Ecology 2 - 2372
- Activity with Newkirk Center: "Evaluating the Reliability and Admissibility of Fingerprint evidence" featuring Professor Simon Cole
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
6-7:30pm at the UCI Student Center (Emerald Bay Rooms D&E)
Seminar: Dr. Richard Kemp, School of Psychology, University of New South Wales, discussing "facial mapping" in which self-proclaimed experts determine whether two photographs are of the same person (usually matching an image of a suspect to CCTV images of the perpetrator). July 18, 2007, 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM, 2372 Social Ecology II.
- Seminar: Professor Cheryl Logan, Departments of Psychology and History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, "Overheated Rats, Race, and the Double Gland: Sex Hormones and Acquired Hereditary Induction, 1910-1930" co-sponsored by the Department of History, the Department of Logic & Philosophy of Science, and the Science Studies Working Group, November 21, 2006, 4:00 - 5:30 PM, 2112 Social Science Plaza A
- UCI Think (May 17, 2005)--Town Hall Forum co-sponsored by Los Angeles Times
Prominent Speaker Series:
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Guest Speaker: The Honorable Slade Gorton
Former United States Senator, 9-11 Commission Member and of counsel with K&L Gates
June 5, 2007 - 5:00pm
News Coverage:
- Orange County Register (Oct 17, 2004)--Extensive coverage of work by members of UCI's Psychology-Law Group, focusing on Simon Cole
- Orange County Register (Oct 10, 2004)--Extensive coverage of work by members of UCI's Psychology-Law Group, focusing on Elizabeth Loftus and Richard Leo
- OC Weekly (Oct 25, 2004)--Profile of William Thompson
- Irvine World New (May 22, 2003)--Discussion of how William Thompson's work helped free an innocent man and expose serious problems in the Houston Police DNA Lab
Chancellor Drake and EVC Gottfredson with Director E. LOFTUS at reception honoring Distinguished Professors, 2007
