In the News in 2022

August

• Aug. 11, 2022, Renters are largely left out of the eco-home movement, but solutions exist
  Michael Méndez, The Orange County Register
• Aug. 9, 2022, 'Inflation Reduction Act' Would Help LA’s Hardest Hit Climate Communities
  Michael Méndez, LAist
• Aug. 8, 2022, Water Week: Access to clean drinking water
  Maura Allaire, NPR
• Aug. 5, 2022, Even journalists are avoiding bad news. How do we change media?
  Roxane Cohen-Silver, KCRW
• Aug. 2, 2022, Column: Solitary confinement is shrouded in secrecy and open to abuse. Why does California allow it? 
  Keramet Reiter, Los Angeles Times
• Aug. 2, 2022, UCI receives $10.1 million grant to expand Young Adult Court study 
  Elizabeth Cauffman, Philanthropy News Digest
• Aug. 1, 2022, Should Costa Mesa tweak measure that some say has squashed new development? 
  Nick Marantz, Orange County Register

July

• July 31, 2022, 23 Famous Cases Of Wrongful Imprisonment in America 
  National Registry of Exonerations, Newkirk Center for Science & Society, 24/7 Wall St.
• July 30, 2022, States Where the Most Prisoners Are Exonerated 
  National Registry of Exonerations, Newkirk Center, 24/7 Wall St.
• July 28, 2022, Talking to Kids About Social Class Helps Shape Their Views—Here's What To Say
  Paul Piff, Parents
• July 27, 2022, How can we cope with collective trauma? 
  Roxane Cohen-Silver, The Jerusalem Post
• July 26, 2022, For wrongfully convicted Black men, exoneration can be just as traumatizing as prison
  National Registry of Exonerations, NBC News
• July 26, 2022, UC Irvine Graduate Takes Viral Photos 
  Jaylen Davis, KNBC
• July 25, 2022, People Exposed To Repeated Hurricanes Has Been Linked To Increased Mental Problems, Research Says 
  Roxane Cohen Silver, Nature World News
• July 25, 2022, What The Startling Low Water Levels In Lake Mead Mean For LA
  Nicola Ulibarri, LAist
• July 24, 2022, Elizabeth Loftus. “El Me Too parece haber olvidado algunos ideales democráticos”
  Elizabeth Loftus, El País
• July 22, 2022, Can Desalination Be a Solution for Drought in SoCal?
  David L. Feldman, KCET
• July 22, 2022, ‘A window into the body’
  Jenna Riis, Technology.org
• July 21, 2022, Seeing Hurricanes – Even Just Through the Media – Can Impact Your Mental Health
  Roxane Cohen Silver, SciTechDaily
• July 21, 2022, When a parent’s mental health struggle affects their kids 
  Jessica Borelli, The Washington Post
• July 14, 2022, How the Upwardly Mobile Feel About Wealth
  Hyunjin Koo and Paul Piff, The Wall Street Journal
• July 12, 2022, Why does love feel magical? It’s an evolutionary advantage
  Benjamin Kaveladze and Oliver Sng, The Conversation, Chron and Yahoo News
• July 11, 2022, To solve the water crisis, companies are increasingly turning to AI
  David Feldman, Fortune
• July 9, 2022, ‘What makes Eastern unique?’: EWU’s new president aims to find out, in light of enrollment slump
  Shari McMahan, The Spokesman-Review
• July 8, 2022, Americans born rich are more sympathetic toward the poor than those who became rich
  Hyunjin Koo, Big Think
• July 8, 2022, A Month of Shootings, One on Top of Another
  Charis E. Kubrin, The New York Times
• July 7, 2022, UC Irvine receives $1.8 million from state to fund pilot B.A. program for incarcerated students
  Keramet Reiter, Daily Pilot

June

• June 30, 2022, Study Proves Adverse Psychological Impact of Repeated Hurricane 
  Roxane Cohen Silver and Rebecca Thompson, News18, MSN, Medical Xpress
• June 25, 2022, Persevering through pandemic hardships, two members of the class of 2022 earn their diplomas
  Andrew Norman, Los Angeles Times
• June 24, 2022, University of California, Irvine Recognizes Pramod Kunju For Work On Criminal Justice
  Pramod Kunju, India West Journal
• June 16, 2022, Latinos Lead Efforts Against Climate Change
  Michael Méndez, BELatina
• June 16, 2022, We're All Coping With So Many Collective Traumas At Work Right Now
  Roxane Cohen Silver, HuffPost and Yahoo News
• June 14, 2022, Wild Rivers water park reopening in Irvine amid SoCal drought
  David Feldman, KCBS
• June 13, 2022, UCI Study Shows No link Between Affordable Housing And Crime Increase, Property Value Reduction
  Livable Cities Lab, John Hipp, Emily Owens, and George Tita, Dana Point Times
• June 13, 2022, During drought conditions, some wonder: Is it wise to open a water park?
  David Feldman, The Orange County Register
• June 12, 2022, Latino activism leads in grassroot efforts on climate change
  Michael Méndez, AP, Yahoo News, ABC News, The Washington Post, Spectrum News 1 and SF Gate
• June 11, 2022, California vineyard laborers wanted wildfire safety. Then came a shadowy counter-movement
  Michael Méndez, The Guardian
• June 8, 2022, How to Save Water: 11 Tips for Reducing Water Consumption
  David Feldman, Reader's Digest
• June 6, 2022, New UC Irvine study finds affordable housing increases property value and lowers crime
  George Tita, KABC
• June 6, 2022, Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Decarbonizing Food, And Especially Meat
  Michael Méndez, Forbes
• June 3, 2022, Opinion: Edtech Should Be More Evidence-Driven
  CERES, EdSurge
• June 3, 2022, LA Crime Targeting Rich Shifts Mayor Race to Billionaire Caruso
  Charis E. Kubrin, Bloomberg City Lab
• June 2, 2022, UCI study finds affordable homes don’t increase crime or dent OC property values
  George Tita, Emily Owens and John Hipp, The Orange County Register
• June 2, 2022, Inmate shuffle: How California bounces around its mentally ill prisoners
  Keramet Reiter, CalMatters
• June 1, 2022, These States Have the Highest Rates of Gun Violence and Deaths
  George Tita, Healthline

May

• May 26, 2022, This Instagram Account Shares Uplifting News From Around The World So You Can See All The Good There Is (50 Posts)
  Roxane Cohen Silver, Bored Panda
• May 24, 2022, How effective are mental health apps and online therapy?
  Stephen Schueller, WBEZ Chicago
• May 24, 2022, Editorial: Bad news pileup can lead to anxiety
  Roxane Cohen Silver, The Philadelphia Tribune
• May 23, 2022, The #1 Predictor of Relationship Success Is Positive Energy
  Sarah Pressman, Psychology Today
• May 23, 2022, 'The Alcatraz of the Rockies': Why No One Ever Escapes From ADX Florence
  Keramet Reiter, HowStuffWorks
• May 23, 2022, Severe COVID May Speed Up Cognitive Decline: Experts Explore Routes of Care
  Jessica Borelli, Verywell Mind
• May 23, 2022, New Research Shows Farm Workers in North Bay Work in Unsafe Wildfire Conditions 
  Michael Méndez, KQED
• May 22, 2022, Workers rights calling for better farm worker protection against wildfire smoke
  Michael Méndez, KCBS Radio
• May 19, 2022, Why climate change matters to Latinos
  Michael Méndez, Yale Climate Connections
• May 20, 2022, Hundreds of Sonoma farmworkers may have been exposed to toxic smoke during 2020 wildfires
  Michael Méndez, San Francisco Chronicle
• May 19, 2022, Is crime seasonal? Experts say yes, incidents spike in summer months
  Jon Gould, Bakersfield Now
• May 17, 2022, UCI doctoral candidate to present at the White House
  Justine Bautista, Spectrum News 1
• May 16, 2022, Here’s What Legal Scholars Say About Using Rapper Lyrics In Criminal Cases
  Chairs Kubrin, Moguldom 
• May 15, 2022, Republicans turn to old playbook linking crime to immigration as election season heats up
  Charis Kubrin, The Nevada Independent
• May 14, 2022, Why Young Thug’s Lyrics Used Against Him in Court Is a Problem
  Charis Kubrin, Central Recorder
• May 11, 2022, Laughing Bear Bakery has a recipe for a fresh start out of prison
  Naomi Sugie, The Christian Science Monitor
• May 10, 2022, This Research Explains Why Equality in America Is So Elusive
  Paul Piff, Mother Jones and Yahoo News
• May 4, 2022, LADWP Training Program: Power and Jobs for the People
  Virginia Parks, LA Progressive
• May 5, 2022, Here's what experts say is causing the United States' recent spike in violence
  Charis Kubrin, MSN and Yahoo News
• May 2, 2022, How Meditation Apps Became A Billion-Dollar Industry
  Stephen Schueller, Newsy
• May 2, 2022, Opinion: Which path will California take on criminal justice?
  Charis E. Kubrin, The Orange County Register
• May 2, 2022, Farm workers exposed to climate change effects are demanding protections
  Michael Méndez, Popular Science
• May 1, 2022, Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation: City Management in The Pandemic Years
  Roxane Cohen Silver, ICMA

April

• April 29, 2022, LADWP Training Program Provides Power — and Good Jobs — to the People
  Virginia Parks, Capital & Main
• April 28, 2022, With Memory So Malleable, Can We Ever Know What's Real?
  Elizabeth Loftus, Open Mind
• April 26, 2022, Ask a Leader: “Covid in Custody” Premiere at UCI AND Civic Notes from the Host
  Keramet Reiter, KUCI
• April 26, 2022, Here Are The 28 Andrew Carnegie Fellows For 2022
  Michael Méndez, Forbes
• April 23, 2022, ‘It’s Life or Death’: The Mental Health Crisis Among U.S. Teens
  Candice Odgers, New York Times and Yahoo News
• April 20, 2022, Are Phones Good for Students?
  Candice Odgers, Tech & Learning
• April 19, 2022, What does it take to be an effective mental health app?
  Stephen Schueller, Marketplace
• April 18, 2022, The Best Leaders Have a Contagious Positive Energy
  Sarah Pressman, Harvard Business Review
• April 17, 2022, A Violent Crisis
  Charis Kubrin, New York Times
• April 15, 2022, Can Environmental Justice Be Baked Into City Planning? Santa Ana Votes on Tuesday
  Michael Méndez, KCET
• April 15, 2022, Mental Health Week: How The Pandemic Has Challenged And Changed Relationships Between Parents And Kids, And Tips For How To Navigate It
  Jessica Borelli, KPCC
• April 13, 2022, Imagine Having a Decade of Your Life Erased. It Happened to 161 People Exonerated from Prison in 2021.
  National Registry of Exonerations, Reason
• April 13, 2022, How to Find a Mental Health App That Works for You
  Stephen Schueller, New York Times
• April 12, 2022, 2021 exonerees served more than 11 years on average for wrongful convictions: report
  National Registry of Exonerations, The Hill and Yahoo News
• April 12, 2022, Angry Drivers, Lots of Guns: An Explosion in Road Rage Shootings
  Charis Kubrin, New York Times
• April 11, 2022, Your Personality May Affect Your Brain Health as You Age: Here’s How
  Susan Charles, Healthline
• April 7, 2022, People are developing trauma-like symptoms as the pandemic wears on
  Roxane Cohen Silver, NPR
• April 4, 2022, Species on the move: 4 ways conservation can adapt in an era of climate change
  Richard Matthew, The Conversation

March

February

• Feb. 25, 2022, NJ Latest State To Probe Use Of Jailhouse Informants
  Newkirk Center for Science and Society, Law360
• Feb. 24, 2022, Rap Music on Trial: On literalism, literacy, and reasonableness
  Charis Kubrin, City Lights
• Feb. 23, 2022, No, you can’t steal up to $950 worth of merchandise in California without consequence
  Charis Kubrin, KHOU
• Feb. 23, 2022, How Disaster Planning Leaves Out Queer People
  Michael Méndez, KQED
• Feb. 21, 2022, Fostering Emotional Safety in Kids: A Conversation with Dr. Jessica Borelli
  Jessica Borelli, XO Conversations Podcast
• Feb. 18, 2022, Opinion: What compels Republicans and police to lie about Proposition 47?
  Charis Kubrin, Orange County Register
• Feb. 16, 2022, How much should rappers worry about Eric Adams’ war on drill?
  Charis Kubrin, The FADER
• Feb. 15, 2022, How Going for a Run May Improve Your Response to Vaccines
  Sarah Pressman, Yahoo News (Women’s Running)
• Feb. 14, 2022, The West's megadrought is worst in 1,200 years. Los Angeles is taking wastewater recycling to the extreme
  David Feldman, CNN and MSN
• Feb. 14, 2022, Queer Communities Often Left Out of Disaster Planning, Research Shows
  Michael Méndez, KQED
• Feb. 14, 2022, Straphangers speak about subway safety, mental health a month after fatal shoving
  Roxane Cohen Silver, WNYC
• Feb. 10, 2022, Stemming the Rising Mental Health Crisis
  Jessica Borelli, UCI Magazine
• Feb. 9, 2022, Is greed good?
  Paul Piff, BBC News — Business Daily
• Feb. 8, 2022, Why These Health Experts Say It’s Time Schools Relax COVID-19 Mandates
  Jessica Borelli, Healthline
• Feb. 7, 2022, As Climate Impacts Worsen, Planning for Disaster and Recovery Often Leaves Out LGBTQ+ People
  Michael Méndez, KQED
• Feb. 3, 2022, 5 Ways Omicron Is Changing the Way We Socialize
  Roxane Cohen Silver, AARP
• Feb. 2, 2022, Study: Villages make Irvine America’s safest city
  John Hipp and Charis Kubrin, Irvine Standard

January

• Jan. 26, 2022, ‘Anxiety tech’ companies say their glowing orbs and audio-playing rocks will improve your mental health
  Stephen Schueller, Washigton Post
• Jan. 25, 2022, U.S. News Unveils 2022 Best Online Programs Rankings
  Master of Advanced Study in criminology, law & society, U.S. News & World Report
• Jan. 25, 2022, Rap on Trial: the battle to keep lyrics out of courtrooms
  Charis Kubrin, The Week UK
• Jan. 21, 2022, Stress, uncertainty and isolation are common pandemic experiences. But is it trauma?
  Roxane Cohen Silver, NPR
• Jan. 17, 2022, Orange County To Get Two New Mental Health Centers For Youth
  Stephen Schueller, LAist 
• Jan. 14, 2022, Good Day LA
  Stephen Schueller, KTTV-LA 
• Jan. 11, 2022, An age-appropriate guide for how to talk to your kids about school shootings
  Jodi Quas, Motherly
• Jan. 9, 2022, The Metaverse’s Effects on Mental Health: Trivial or Troubling?
  Candice Odgers, The Wall Street Journal
• Jan. 7, 2022, How to Help a Loved One Through Sudden Loss
  Roxane Cohen Silver, The New York Times
• Jan. 6, 2022, UC Irvine professor hopes to shed light on farmworkers working conditions
  Michael Méndez, Spectrum News 1
• Jan. 6, 2022, Assemblymember talks with KRCR about repealing Proposition 47
  Charis Kubrin, KRCR
• Jan. 6, 2022, On the anniversary of Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a reminder that watching footage may be traumatizing
  Roxane Cohen Silver, Yahoo Life and Yahoo News
• Jan. 5, 2022, How Much Does Online Therapy Cost, and Will Insurance Cover It?
  Stephen Schueller, Yahoo Money
• Jan. 1, 2022, 2022 Promises Continued Climate Extremes, But Also A Glimmer of Hope for Californians
  Michael Méndez, KQED

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