The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides email accounts for all faculty. Social Ecology supports Microsoft's Office 365.
For specific infomation about getting started with email, visit:
https://www.oit.uci.edu/services/communication-collaboration/email/
You may access your email using the campus webmail system, located at:
https://outlook.com/uci.edu
OIT provides a number of mailing lists, the lists are available at:
http://www.oit.uci.edu/mailing-lists/mailman/