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May 2012

Simon Cole, Professor and Chair, Criminology, Law and Society, was interviewed by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Errol Morris (maker of The Thin Blue Line, Standard Operating Procedure and The Fog of War). The interview was published in Morris' blog, Opinionator, in the New York Times.

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May 2012

UC Berkeley police officer Allison Jacobs was in on a meeting with a co-worker who was talking to Phillip Garrido and two young girls that he said were his daughters.

May 2012

Associate Dean James Meeker, School of Social Ecology, has been selected as a 2012 Legal Aid Association of California (LAAC) Award of Merit recipient. The LAAC Awards of Merit are the legal services community's opportunity to recognize the importance of legal services and to honor those who have made contributions to the field during the last year. Associate Dean Meeker will be honored on June 7th during the Pathways to Justice conference.

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May 2012

Joanne Frattaroli-Zinger, Lecturer, Psychology and Social Behavior, has been selected as the Lecturer of the Year by the Academic Senate Council on Student Experience. She will be honored at the 19th Annual Celebration of Teaching on May 24th.

Frattaroli- Zinger was also selected by the graduating class of 2012 as the Outstanding Professor in the School of Social Ecology. The graduation class and UC Irvine Anthology yearbook staff will honor her at the Outstanding Professors Night (OPN).

May 2012

We are pleased to announce that the School of Social Ecology Spring E-Newsletter is available on-line! In this issue we are featuring our current research, news and events. View Current Issue

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April 2012

Michael Gottfredson, is a glass-half-full kind of guy. Where others see challenges, he sees opportunity.“There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic,” says UC Irvine's Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, Professor, Criminology, Law and Society, who leads efforts to move the rapidly growing campus forward despite current financial pressures.

April 2012

UC Irvine Urban Planning graduate students Ryan Kelleher, Brian English, Lindsay Horn and Jared Riemer are helping city planners find ways to improve the quality of life for 175 households in San Clemente's tightly packed Vista Los Mares neighborhood, a pocket of low-income households surrounded by affluence.

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April 2012

Charis Kubrin, Associate Professor, Department of Criminology,Law and Society, was interviewed for a recent news story on interracial homicide. The article quotes Kubrin directly as well as references her previous work on interracial homicide published in Criminology.

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Dean Valerie Jenness welcomes Scott Dubchansky and Gary Fudge to her Dean’s Leadership Council.

Scott Dubchansky is a managing director of Rimrock Capital Management, LLC, an SEC registered investment advisor headquartered in San Juan Capistrano. Founded in 1999, Rimrock manages assets on behalf of institutional clients and high net worth investors. Scott received a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981.  He is married and has two children.

Gary Fudge is a Trustee of the Fudge Family Foundation, which has recently funded the Fudge Family Scholarships in the School of Social Ecology. He is a graduate of Indiana University, where he received a B.S. in Physics; Princeton University, where he received an M.S. in Engineering (Nuclear) and American University, where he received an MBA in Finance. Fudge was the founder of Automotive.com, which sold to a large publishing company

April 2012

Roxane Cohen Silver, Professor, Psychology and Social Behavior, was recently quoted in US News and World Report. Silver says there no single way people respond to negative life events and the same person may respond differently at different times in his or her life. It also turns out that experiencing some adversity strengthens coping skills and can produce an "inoculation" effect. People who have not experienced serious problems in their lives may be emotionally devastated when bad things finally happen to them. Likewise, she says, people who have had too hard a time are not able to cope well, either. "I met a woman years ago whose son had won every race he entered as a young boy," Silver says by way of illustration. "He was very gifted and just never lost at anything. When he was about 30, he had something bad happen to him, and he completely fell apart. His mother told me that she wished at some point that he had come in second in a race. She was basically saying that he had never learned to deal with adversity, and had not developed the requisite social and coping skills."

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