UCI Podcast: Slowing the spread of election misinformation
The clouds of misinformation swirling on the internet have only thickened this election season, with unfounded allegations of rampant voter fraud and online conspiracy theories that severely strain cr...
27 Okt 202024min
UCI Podcast: Eloy Ortiz Oakley ensures access for first generation students
Eloy Ortiz Oakley’s parents didn’t go to college, but today the UCI graduate (BA ‘96, MBA ‘99) leads the largest higher education system in the country. As chancellor of the California Community Coll...
20 Okt 202025min
UCI Podcast: How Amy Coney Barrett could reshape the Supreme Court
With just weeks to go before the election, the Senate has launched confirmation hearings for President Trump’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, Judge Amy Coney Barrett. Conservatives have praised he...
12 Okt 202023min
UCI Podcast: At the intersection of economics and political philosophy
What is the Federal Reserve? What does it do? When is debt not a bad thing? Is a universal basic income economically sustainable? Why would you take financial advice from philosopher? Aaron James, UCI...
5 Okt 202015min
UCI Podcast: What could cause an election meltdown?
The possible scenarios for election night and the days after multiply like a many-branched tree: What if one candidate claims victory even as mail-in ballots continue to be counted? What if states end...
5 Okt 202022min
UCI Podcast: At the forefront of digital learning
The pandemic-induced pivot to remote instruction has made digital learning the most important issue in education today, for students from pre-K to Ph.D. In 2015, the UCI Paul Merage School of Business...
14 Sep 202016min
UCI Podcast: Amal Alachkar from leaving Syria to preventing psychiatric disorders
Since 2011, 13 million Syrians have fled the nation's civil war. Amal Alachkar and her family were among them. Alachkar tells the UCI podcast how she went from establishing Syria's first neuroscience ...
1 Sep 202024min
UCI Podcast: The future of social justice
The Aug. 28 Black Lives Matters March on Washington D.C. marks three months of nationwide protests over the killing of George Floyd. The movement has raised awareness to myriad issues related to racis...
24 Aug 202030min
