The Tuesday Lunch Talk Series is scheduled throughout each semester with speakers invited to discuss cutting edge topics. Occasionally talks are given on subjects relevant to students such as career management and research. CGU and Claremont Colleges Consortium faculty, students, staff and alum are encouraged to attend. A complimentary lunch is always provided.
Unless otherwise announced, all seminars are scheduled from 11:45 am – 1:00 pm in Albrecht Auditorium.
Spring Semester 2020
1/28/20
Shawn Rohlin, Kent State University
“Weathering an Unexpected Financial Shock: The Role of Cash Grants on Household Finance and Business Survival following a Natural Disaster”
Host: Economic Sciences
2/4/20
Erin Duffy, University of Southern California
“Surprise Medical Bills: When The Hospital Is In Your Insurance Network, But — Surprise! — The Doctor Is Not”
Host: Politics & Government
2/11/20
Guillermo Ramos Douglass-Jaimes, Pomona College
“Blurring Boundaries of the “Slum Divide” Through Precision Mapping in Rio de Janeiro”
Host: Politics & Government
2/18/20
Char Miller, Pomona College
“Streetscape Environmentalism: Flood Control, Social Justice, and Political Power in San Antonio”
Host: Politics & Government
2/25/20
Jean Schroedel, Christopher Krewson, Joseph Immormino, Claremont Graduate University
“Supreme Court Legitimacy and the Gender Gap”
Host: Politics & Government
3/3/20
Cynthia Osborne, The University of Texas at Austin
“Effective State-level Policies to Strengthen the Prenatal-to-3 Period”
Host: Politics & Government
3/10/20
Mireille Jacobson, University of Southern California
“How Do Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs Reduce Opioid Prescribing?”
Host: Economic Sciences
3/24/20
Jennifer Merolla, University of California, Riverside
Title: “Emotional Engagement in the Year of the Woman”
Host: Politics & Government
3/31/20
Marcia Godwin, University of La Verne
“Southern California’s Flipped Congressional Districts”
Host: Politics & Government
4/7/20
Thomas Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
“Health Insurance in Other Wealthy Countries: What Can the U.S. Learn?”
Host: Politics & Government
4/14/20
Michael Melvin, University of California, San Diego
“Global Currency Markets: Facts and Fallacies”
Host: Economic Sciences
4/21/20
Paasha Mahdavi, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Direct Cash Transfers and Political Participation”
Host: International Studies
4/28/20
Laura Peck, Abt Associates
“Experimental Evaluation Design for Program Improvement”
Host: Politics & Government
5/5/20
Gregory Daneke, Arizona State University
“Automacene Rising: The Problematic Political Economy of Artificial Intelligence”
Host: Politics & Government
Fall Semester 2019
9/17/19
Heather Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara
“How are Preferences for Commitment Revealed?”
Host: Economic Sciences
9/24/19
Gregoire Phillips, University of California, San Diego
“Velvet Gloves on Iron Fists: Media, Influence, and Power in Modern Extremism”
Host: International Studies
10/1/19
Douglas Lemke, Pennsylvania State University
“The Survival of ‘States’”
Host: International Studies
10/8/19
Peiran Jiao, Maastricht University
“Investor Memory”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/15/19
Mehdi Nemati, University of California, Riverside
“Heterogeneous Effects of High-Frequency Consumption Analytics on Residential Water Consumption”
Host: Politics & Government
10/22/19
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“Eating to Save The Planet: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial Using Individual-Level Food Purchase Data”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/29/19
Ines Levin, University of California, Irvine
“Machine Unlearning: Adjusting Automatically for Human Biases in Decision Making”
Host: International Studies
11/5/19
Erica Dobbs, Pomona College
“Cinderella States: Rethinking immigration typologies in Western Europe (and beyond)”
Host: Politics & Government
11/12/19
Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University
“Culture and Development”
Host: Politics & Government
11/19/19
Rachel VanSickle-Ward, Pitzer College
“The Politics of the Pill: Gender, Framing, and Policymaking in the Battle over Birth Control”
Host: Politics & Government
11/26/19
Rustam Romaniuc, Claremont Graduate University
“Whistleblowing Norms: Experimental Evidence from Moldova and France”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/3/19
Malte Dold, Pomona College
“F.A. Hayek on the Political Economy of Endogenous Preferences”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/10/19
Zoe Nemerever, University of California, San Diego
“The Rural Representation Gap”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2019
01/29/19
Nico Ravanilla, University of California, San Diego
“Limiting Adverse Political Selection: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines”
Host: International Studies
02/05/19
Richard Kronick, University of California, San Diego
“Is ‘Medicare for All’ the Democrats’ “Repeal and Replace’?”
Host: Economic Sciences
02/12/19
Gregory De Angelo, Claremont Graduate University
“Policing For Profit: The Political Economy of Law Enforcement”
Host: Economic Sciences
02/19/19
Jeanine Kraybill, California State University, Bakersfield
“The Women of SCOTUS: A Preliminary Analysis of the Different Voice Debate”
Host: International Studies
02/26/19
Lise Vesterlund, University of Pittsburgh
“Breaking the Glass Ceiling: Gender Differences in Task Allocations”
Host: Economic Sciences
03/05/19
Bhavna Shamasunder, Occidental College
“Crude Justice: Neighborhood Oil Development and Community Based Research in Los Angeles”
Host: Politics & Government
03/12/19
Michael McLendon, California State University, Los Angeles
“The Psychology of Inequality: Rousseau’s ‘Amour-Propre'”
Host: Politics & Government
03/19/19
Spring Break
03/26/19
David Andrews, Scripps College
“Brexit and the British Constitutional Crisis”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/02/19
Philip Armour, RAND Corporation
“Stuck without a Job: How Housing Policies, Labor Markets, and Declining Mobility Contribute to Long-Term Disability”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/09/19
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, University of California, Los Angeles
“US-Mexico Cross-Border Health Visitors: How Mexican border cities in the state of Baja California address unmet healthcare needs from US residents”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/16/19
Evan Crawford, University of San Diego
“The partisan competition over partisan competition: electoral contestation at the local level”
Host: Politics & Government
04/23/19
Chris Whaley, RAND Corporation and University of California, Berkeley
“The Effect of Financial Reward Programs on Prices and Utilization of Low-Priced Providers”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/30/19
Ruoxi Li, U.S. California State University, San Marcos
“Is there a trade-off between campaigning and legislating in Congress?”
Host: Politics & Government
Fall Semester 2018
09/11/18
Michael Baranick, American University of Central Asia
“Causes and Process of Radicalization”
Host: International Studies
09/18/18
Aaron Berg and Javier Rodríguez, Claremont Graduate University
“Trust and Turnout in Indian Country”
Host: Politics & Government
09/25/18
Claire O’Hanlon, RAND Corporation
“U.S. Health Care Industry Consolidation: National Landscape and Results from A Case Study OF Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/02/18
Melissa Rogers and Jean Schroedel, Claremont Graduate University
“Assessing the Efficacy of Early, On-site Voting Access on Indian Reservations: Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Nevada”
Host: Politics & Government
10/09/18
Christopher Krewson, Claremont Graduate University
“Public Support for Judicial Philosophies”
Host: Politics & Government
10/16/18
Heather Campbell, Claremont Graduate University
“Environmental Justice and Water Policy during a Drought: Community Stressors, Minority Residents, and Cutback Assignments”
Host: Politics & Government
10/23/18
Arie Kapteyn, University of Southern California
“U.S. Life Satisfaction Within and Across Countries: The Role of Societal Capital and Relative Income”
Host: Economic Sciences
10/30/18
Stan Oklobdzija, University of California, San Diego
“Citizens United, Dark Money Networks and the Evolution of Political Parties”
Host: Politics & Government
11/06/18
Giorgi Areshidze, Claremont McKenna College
“How the West Thinks about Radical Islam”
Host: Politics & Government
11/13/18
Robert Bunker and Marisa Mendoza, University of Southern California
“MARA SALVATRUCHA (MS-13) A Law Enforcement Primer”
Host: Politics & Government
11/20/18
Yi Feng, Zhijun Gao and Wanjun Jiang, Claremont Graduate University
“Logic of Foreign Direct Investment, Convergence or Divergence? A Comparative Study of US and China’s Outgoing FDI to Africa”
Host: International Studies
11/27/18
David Neumark, University of California, Irvine
“The Long-Run Effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit on Women’s Earnings”
Host: Economic Sciences
12/4/18
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
“Impact of Political Capacity on Demographic Change and Economic Recovery”
Host: International Studies
12/11/18
Leif Rosenberger, U.S. Army War College
“Try Shared Prosperity to Reduce the Demand for Violence”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2018
01/23/18
Jacek Kugler, Claremont Graduate University
“Long term Power Transtion Perspective.”
Host: International Studies
01/30/18
Tamorah Hunt, Claremont Graduate University Board Member
“Issues in Forensic Economics.”
Host: Development Office
02/06/18
Brian Hilton, Claremont Graduate University
“Locational Big Data and Analytics: Case Studies and Demonstrations.”
Host: Politics & Government
02/13/18
Steven Childs, California State University, San Bernardino
“Unmanned Drones, Small Nuclear Powers, and Nuclear Deterrence.”
Host: International Studies
02/20/18
Linda Perkins, Claremont Graduate University
“The United Nations Substantiable Development Goals and their impact on Global Gender Equity.”
Host: International Studies
02/27/18
Paul Peretz, Claremont Graduate University
“A Dynamic Equilibrium Model of Political Parties.”
Host: Economic Sciences
03/06/18
Georgia Kernell, University of California, Los Angeles
“Inside Parties.”
Host: International Studies
03/20/18
Birol A. Yeşilada, Portland State University
“How Social Values Could Explain Regional Integration in Europe.”
Host: International Studies
04/03/18
Mark Abdollahian, Claremont Graduate University
“Big Data Trajectories.”
Host: International Studies
04/10/18
Tony LoSasso, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Reclassification Risk in the Small Group Health Insurance Market.”
Host: Economic Sciences
04/17/18
Sallama Shaker, Claremont Graduate University
“Chess Game in the Middle East.”
Host: International Studies
04/26/18
James M. Murphy, Jr. & Robert E. Hindle
“Multilateralism and Economic Development.”
Host: Development Office & Economic Sciences
05/01/18
Kerstin Fisk, Loyola Merimount University
“Refugee Encampment and Communal Conflict in sub-Saharan Africa.”
Host: International Studies
Fall Semester 2017
09/05/17
Lucrecia Santibañez, Claremont Graduate University
“Effects of a Private Comprehensive Schooling Model on Low-income Children: Experimental Evidence from Mexico”
Host: Economic Sciences
09/12/17
George Thomas, Claremont McKenna College
“The Return of Constitutional Political Economy”
Host: Politics & Government
09/19/17
Tom Rice, University of California, Los Angeles
“Improving Consumer Decision-Making in Health Insurance: Background and Experimental Evidence”
Location: Burkle 16; 11:45am – 1:00pm
Host: Economic Sciences
09/26/17
Gulrez Azhar, Pardee RAND Graduate School
“Heat Wave Vulnerability Mapping for India”
Host: Politics & Government
10/03/17
Jacob Meyer, California State University, Long Beach
“Which Crisis and Why?”
Host: International Studies
10/10/17
William Ascher, Claremont McKenna College
“Rights Versus Benefit-Cost Analysis”
Host: Politics & Government
10/17/17
Kyungkook Kang, University of Central Florida
“Conditional Deterrence”
Host: International Studies
10/24/17
Javier Rodriguez, Claremont Graduate University
“Party Composition of State Legislatures and Racial Disparities in Health”
Host: Politics & Government
11/07/17
Justin Gallagher, Case Western Reserve University
“Criminal Deterrence when there are Offsetting Risks: Traffic Cameras, Vehicular Accidents, and Public Safety”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/14/17
Carolyn James, Pepperdine University
“Sovereignty and Policy: US-Canadian Relations in the Arctic”
Host: International Studies
11/21/17
Jane Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
“Curriculum and Ideology”
Host: Economic Sciences
11/28/17
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College; Alma Bezares-Calderon, PhD candidates at CGU; Lisa Piergallini, PhD candidates at CGU
“Decentralization Reforms and Ethnic Collective Action in Former Katanga, DR Congo”
Host: International Studies
12/05/17
Emily Acevedo, California State University, Los Angeles
“Mexico’s Growing Public Security Threats: Treating the Problem, Not the Symptoms”
Host: International Studies
Spring Semester 2017
01/24/17
Gasspare Genna, The University of Texas at El Paso
“Development of European Integration”
01/31/17
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
“Quantitative Easing in the Great Depression and Now”
02/07/17
Emily Pears, Claremont McKenna College
“Chords of Sympathy: The Development of National Political Attachments in the 19th Century”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
02/14/17
David Lee, MIT
“Your Trash in the Wild: GPS Tracking and the Future of Waste Management”
02/21/17
No talk scheduled
02/28/17
Jerry White, Global Impact Strategies Inc.
“Religion, Violence and Strategy: How to Stop Killing in the Name of God?”
03/07/17
Patrick James, University of Southern California
“Decision-Making in U.S. Foreign Policy Crises: Presidential Leadership and Outcomes”
03/14/17
Spring Break, no talk scheduled
03/21/17
Paul Carrese, Professor and Director USAFA Scholar program, U.S. Air Force Academy
“Why Our Politics Is So Broken: The Eclipse of Constitutional Moderation”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
03/28/17
Kip Viscusi, Vanderbilt University
“Pricing Lives for Government and Corporate Decisions”
04/04/17
Michael Uhlmann, Claremont Graduate University
“Some Madisonian Reflections on the 2016 Election”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
04/11/17
Roger Chin, Claremont Graduate University
04/18/17
Mary Evans, Mitchell Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, Claremont McKenna College
“The Clean Air Act Watch List: An Enforcement and Compliance Natural Experiment”
04/25/17
Imke Harbers, University of Amsterdam
Fall Semester 2016
11/22/16
Dr. Andrew Marx and Dr. Melissa Rogers. CISAT and Claremont Graduate University
“Using Satellites to Assess Panamanian GDP Data”
11/08/16
Dr. Hilton Root. George Mason University
“Network Dynamics of Dynastic Succession”
11/01/16
Dr. George Thomas. Claremont McKenna College
“The Founders and the Idea of a National University: Constituting the American Mind”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/27/16
Dr. Melissa Rogers. Claremont Graduate University
“What does Comparative Politics Tell Us about the Structure of the US and the Current Presidential Elections?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/25/16
Dr. Charles Kessler. Claremont McKenna College
“What do the Federalist Papers Have to Teach 21st Century Americans?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
10/18/16
Dr. Anya Samek. University of Southern California
“Towards an Understanding of What Works in Preschool Education”
10/11/16
Dr. Jean Yarbrough. University of Southern California
“Did Alexander Hamilton Get it Wrong on Executive Power?”
Taking the Constitution Seriously: Lessons from the Founding Speaker Series
09/27/16
Dr. Jacek Kugler. Claremont Graduate University
“Effect of Structural Changes on Future Global Stability”
09/20/16
Dr. Richard Worthington. Pomona College
“Global Citizen Policy Consultation”
09/13/16
Dr. Mellisa Rogers. Claremont Graduate University
“Intra-elite Competition and Long-run Fiscal Development”
09/06/16
Dr. Paul Zak. Claremont Graduate University
“Trust Factor: The Science of Creating High Performance Companies”
Spring Semester 2016
04/26/16
Dr. John S. Ahlquist, University of California, San Diego
“Elections, Exchange Rates & Household Exposure to Foreign Currency Debt: evidence from the 2015 Swiss Franc revaluation and Polish Elections”
04/19/16
Dr. Patrick Neal, Claremont Graduate University
“Oscillations and Coupling in Congestion Games and Macroeconomic Data”
04/05/16
Dr. Gabriele Camera, Chapman University
“Money and the Scale of Cooperation”
03/29/16
Dr. Yushim Kim, Arizona State University
“Two Effective Causal Paths that Explain the Adoption of U.S. State Environmental Justice Policy”
03/22/16
Dr. Itai Sher, University of California, San Diego
“Ethical Considerations on Quadratic Voting”
03/08/16
Dr. Jeffrey Kendell Naecker, Wesleyan University
“When Fair Isn’t Fair: Sophisticated Time Inconsistency in Social Preferences”
03/01/16
Dr. Jennifer Pate, Loyola Marymount University
“Exploring the Volunteer’s Dilemma in Experiment”
02/23/16
Dr. Rami Zwick, University of California, Riverside
“Pay what you want” as threshold public good provision”
02/16/16
Dr. Tanja Srebotnjak, Harvey Mudd College
“When the oil patch looks more like a carpet: A spatial analysis of the demographic characteristics of U.S. communities living in close proximity to oil and gas development”
02/09/16
Dr. Hyung Rok Yim, Hanyang University, South Korea
“Global Economy Matrix – the Past, the Current, and the Future”
02/02/16
Dr. Dale Berger, Claremont Graduate University
“Crisis of Replicability – Critique of Social Science Research Methodology”
01/26/16
Dr. Tobias F. Roetheli, University of Erfurt, Germany
“Pattern-Based Inflation Expectations: A Modern Perspective on the Role of Extrapolation”
Fall Semester 2015
09/08/15
Zining Yang, Claremont Graduate University
“The Freedom of Constraint: An Agent-Based Game Theoretic Model of the Politics of Fertility and Economic Development Dynamics”
09/15/15
Soomi Lee, University of La Verne
“Fiscal Effects of the Constitutional Supermajority Requirement for Raising Taxes: Evidence from the U.S. States”
09/22/15
Tom Kniesner, Claremont Graduate University
“Some Core Aspects of Behavioral Labor Economics: Theory and Evidence”
09/29/15
Tahir Andrabl, Pomona College
“Coming Up Short? Recovery deficits in children after the Pakistan earthquake of 2005”
10/06/15
Garret Ridinger, University of California, Irvine
“Intentions versus outcomes: cooperation and fairness in a sequential prisoner’s dilemma with nature”
10/13/15
Russell Dalton, University of California, Irvine
“The Civic Culture Transformed: From Allegiant to Assertive Citizens”
10/20/15
Jennifer Merolla, Claremont Graduate University
“Frames that Matter: Immigration Policy and Undocumented Immigrants in the United States”
10/27/15
Brinda Sarathy, Pitzer College
“Laid to Waste: Regulating Water Pollution in Southern California, 1947-1972”
11/03/15
Joshua Tasoff, Claremont Graduate University
“The Role of Time Preferences and Exponential Growth Bias in Retirement Savings”
11/10/15
David Bjerk, Claremont McKenna College
“Using Exoneration Data to Estimate Racial Differences in Wrongful Conviction Rates”
11/17/15
Robert Klitgaard, Claremont Graduate University
“Addressing Corruption Together”
11/24/15
Patrick James, University of Southern California
“The Religious Characteristics of States(RCS)Dataset:Classic Themes and New Evidence for International Relations and Comparative Politics”
12/01/15
Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
“The growth of emerging economies and global macroeconomic stability”
12/08/15
Yan Li, Claremont Graduate University
“Using Association Rules Mining to Facilitate Qualitative Data Analysis in Theory Building”
Spring Semester 2015
01/27/15
Yi Feng, CGU
“Official Corruption in China: An Empirical Study”
02/03/15
Jeff Conklin, CogNexus Institute
“Beyond Gridlock: Breaking Our Addiction to Problem Solving”
02/10/15
Dana Goldman, USC
“Rethinking the Value of End-of-Life Care”
02/17/15
Eusebio Alvaro, CGU
“Messages Matter: Highlights from a Research Program Examining Persuasion in the Health Context”
02/24/15
Darren Filson, CMC
“Say Goodbye to Hollywood: The Rise of Film Franchises and Performance in Domestic vs Foreign Markets”
03/03/15
Sallama Shaker, CGU
03/10/15
Hernan Bejarano, Chapman
03/24/15
Yariv Fadlon, CGU
03/31/15
Manisha Goel, Pomona
04/07/15
Ben Gillen, CalTech
““Underbidding and Experience in USFS Timber Auctions”
04/14/15
Alan Fiske, UCLA
“Relational Models Theory – The Four Elementary Forms of Social Relations”
04/21/15
Wendy Wong, U. Toronto
“Who You Gonna Call? Leading Authorities Among INGOs”
04/28/15
Jana Grittersova, UCR
“Foreign Financiers and Sovereign Credit Ratings: Reputational Capital in Sovereign Debt Markets”
05/05/15
Daniel Benjamin, Cornell
“The Fourth Law of Behavior Genetics”
Fall Semester 2014
09/09/14
Jean Schroedel, CGU
“A Political Scientists Journey through Indian Country”
09/16/14
Tarek Azzam, CGU
“The Potential Use of Crowd-sourcing in Research Methodology”
09/23/14
Marina Agranov, California Technical Institute
“Equilibrium Tax Rates and Income Redistribution: a laboratory study”
10/02/14
Paul C. Godfrey, Brigham Young University
10/07/14
Hal Nelson, CGU
“Local Pain, Public Gain: A Methodological Omnivore’s Journey Through the Thicket of Locally Unwanted Infrastructure Projects”
10/14/14
Quinn Keefer, UC San Marcos
“Sunk Cost Fallacy & Performance Feedback”
10/21/14
Ravi Roy, CSU Northridge
“Neoliberalism: Dead or Alive?”
10/28/14
Heather Campbell, CGU
“Environmental Justice & A Journey to a New Paradigm”
11/04/14
Priya Ranjan, UC Irvine
“Globalization, Jobs, & Welfare: The Roles of Social Protection and Redistribution”
11/18/14
Jana Grittersova, UC Riverside
11/21/14
Jacek Kugler, CGU
“Rise or Fall of International War?”
12/02/14
Pierre Englebert, Pomona College
“Small Steps in Governance but Giant Leaps in Development?”
12/09/14
Robert Dekle, University of Southern California
“Japanese Monetary Policy and the Yen: Is there a Currency War?”
Spring Semester 2014
01/28/14
Axel Leijonhufvud, UCLA
“Central Banking, Instability, and the Distribution of Income”
02/11/14
Jessica Chen Weiss, Yale University
“Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations”
02/18/14
Josh Tasoff, CGU
“Fantasy and Dread: An Experimental Test of Attentional Anticipatory Utility”
02/25/14
Jacek Kugler, CGU
“Conditional Deterrence: How to Control Weapons of Mass Destruction”
03/04/14
Richard Sweeney, Georgetown
“Growth, Factor-Market Slack and Multiple Equilibria: Is the United States in a Low-Growth Trap?”
03/11/14
Bryan Feary, Los Alamos
“National Security Policy Issues & Prospects for a Tactical Nuclear Weapons Treaty — Obstacles and Opportunities”
03/25/14
Martin Johnson, UC Riverside
““Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice”
04/01/14
Jennifer Merolla, CGU
“Holding Out For A Hero: Evaluations of Political Leaders In Times of Threat”
04/08/14
Daniel Kovenock, Economic Science Institute, Chapman University
“All-Pay Auction with Complete Information and Identity-Dependent Externalities”
04/15/14
Amnon Rapaport, UC Riverside
“Choice of Routes Under Strategic Uncertainty”
04/22/14
Ryan Kendall, University of Southern California
“Decomposing Models of Bounded Rationality and Other-Regarding Preferences”
04/29/14
Yelena Tuzova, CGU
05/06/14
Mark Abdollahian, CGU
“Human Development Dynamics”
05/13/14
Etel Solingen, UC Irvine