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| Event: | How do people get from home to work to play, and what kinds of communities do our transit decisions and policies produce? What does the changing landscape of the Internet, social media and virtual worlds mean for education, culture and industrial design? What is the current state and possible future of healthcare in the U.S.? These topics will be addressed by UC Irvine social scientists and industry experts in the third annual Social Sciences Expert Speaker Series. |
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| Date: | Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011 |
| Time: | 7-8:30 p.m. |
| Location: | Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway, Room 1517 (bldg. 214, grid F10 on campus map) |
| Supplemental Information: | The events are free and open to the public. Media planning to attend should contact Heather Wuebker at hwuebker@uci.edu or 949-824-1577. Community members should contact Rosemarie Swatez at rswatez@uci.edu or 949-824-2511. Parking is available for $2 an hour in the Social Sciences Parking Structure at Campus Drive and Stanford. For more information, visit http://www.socsci.uci.edu/ss_experts11-12. |
| Highlight(s): | “Making & Moving Future Communities: Transit & the Urban Landscape”: 7-8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19 “Digital Futures: What Comes After the Network Society?”: 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2012 “Healthcare Futures: Policy, Promise & Politics”: 7-8:30 p.m. Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
| Background: | Sponsored by UCI’s School of Social Sciences, the Expert Speaker Series fosters public discussion of globally significant social science research that affects the daily lives of Californians. In 2010, the school was ranked by Times Higher Education as one of the top 50 programs in the world for social science research, teaching and knowledge transfer. Its faculty includes 11 members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and the National Academy of Science. |
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