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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

Events:

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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
  • Collaboration 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
  • Reception: Chancellor Drake and EVC Gottfredson with Director E. LOFTUS at reception honoring Distinguished Professors, 2007
  • Prominent Speaker Series:
    • 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
    • Guest Speaker: Mr. Thomas A. Mesereau, Jr.
      March 8, 2006 - 4:00 PM
      112 Social Ecology I