Psychology research with children in the U.S. and China suggests there isn’t a universal trajectory for how abstract thought develops – and that culture may play a role.
To raise a child with a fair shot at college, it takes more than a village—it takes a network. UC San Diego’s Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment and Teaching Excellence, or CREATE, has taken that notion seriously since its inception, harnessing the power of social ties long before…
The Voter’s Choice Act is transforming voting methods in California: the how, where and when of voting. Is it also changing who votes?
Immigration has played an integral role in American history and is sure to feature prominently in America’s future. But what should the immigration policies of our nation of immigrants be? That context and that question are driving the newly launched U.S. Immigration Policy Center at UC San Diego.
Researchers found that between four to seven years of the birth or adoption of their first child, 43 percent of women, and 23 percent of men, left their full-time STEM careers.
Online dating used to be rare. Now it has become the third most common way that couples meet. One in three heterosexual relationships and two in three same-sex relationships start online. If you’re trying your luck on a dating site or thinking about doing so, sociologist Kevin Lewis has three bits…
Passed in 2016 and intended to both save money and improve voting flexibility, the California Voter’s Choice Act changes how, where and when Californians vote. The question on researchers’ and policymakers’ minds: Will the changes make for the largest and most diverse electorate yet, or will they…
New research shows for the first time how the changing climate in Asia, from 5,000 to 1,000 years ago, transformed people’s ability to produce food in particular places. The computer model simulates crop failures and enables the co-authors to get at the causes of some dramatic historic and cultural…
In the summer of 2018, over five weeks in July and August, a group of UC San Diego students got to experience both kinds of accounts, learning directly from native Kumeyaay Indians and also learning from the land, as they gathered data on a prehistoric site at an ancestral Kumeyaay home on the La Posta…
You’re probably studying hard. But are you also studying smart? There’s a chance that you’re doing what you’ve always done, and there’s also a chance that it’s not serving you all that well.