UCI psychologist named to national panel UC...

UCI psychologist named to national panel

UC Irvine psychologist Roxane Cohen Silver will serve on a new

nine-member national advisory panel, UCI officials announced Monday.

The Academe and Policy Research Senior Advisory Committee will

provide expert advice to the Homeland Security Advisory Council. It

includes leaders in academia, technology and policy development.

Carnegie Mellon University President Jared Cohon will serve as the

committee chair.

Ridge swore in the members at their first meeting Monday in Miami.

Silver is a member of the American Psychological Society and the

American Psychological Assn. and is considered an expert in the field

of stress and coping. She is the principal investigator of an ongoing

national study of psychological responses to the Sept. 11 terrorist

attacks.

Silver focuses her research on cognitive, emotional, social and

physical responses to stressful life events.

UCI researchers to study immigrant life

A group of UC Irvine social scientists will use a $1.7-million

grant to study the economic and social mobility of contemporary

immigrants and their offspring in the greater Los Angeles area.

The grant, from the Russell Sage Foundation, will fund the

Immigration and Intergenerational Mobility in Metropolitan Los

Angeles study. It will include a large, varied generational pool of

immigrants from the area.

The study could provide policymakers with a clearer picture of the

long-term effect of immigration on the region. It will cover Los

Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Riverside and Ventura counties.

It will go into more detail than the U.S. Census reports and will

focus on Mexican Americans. Ruben Rumbaut, co-director of the UCI

Center for Research on Immigration, Population and Public Policy in

the School of Social Sciences, will serve as the study’s lead

investigator.