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Muralist puts love on the wall at UC Irvine

Daily Pilot

Nancy Guerra, dean of UCI’s School of Social Ecology, said the school invited Cook to paint the latest mural because of its message. The mural — measuring 32 feet wide and 8 feet tall over two walls — is part of the school’s Compassion Action Project, a partnership among the School of Social Ecology, the UCI Blum Center for Poverty Alleviation and the Living Peace Foundation.

Adolescents’ view of family social standing correlates with mental health, life outcomes

Candice Odgers

“We found that by late adolescence, young people’s beliefs about their family’s social standing in relation to others reliably mark differences in their mental health and readiness for future education and work,” says Candice Odgers, UCI professor of psychological science and the study’s senior author. “By age 18, how youths viewed their family’s status was robustly linked with multiple indicators of well-being, independent of objective social position.” Photo by Patricia DeVoe