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- Bharat Venkat co-Authors New Publication on Climate Injustice in California Prisons
Congratulations to Bharat Venkat, who co-authored the new article, The Real Cost of Cooling: The Purchasing Power of California’s Incarcerated Workers as a Limit to Climate Adaptation, published in the Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law. - Jonah Walters in the Conversation, “Pennsylvania Coroners Refuse to Release Autopsy Reports – and that Hinders Research on Deaths in Custody”
Check the latest article by Jonah Walters, Chancellor’s Postdoctoral fellow, in the Conversation! - Danielle Carr, Recipient of the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award
Congratulations to Danielle for the 2026 – 2027 UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award! This fellowship will support the completion of her upcoming book “The Brains of the Living: The Rise, Fall, and Second Coming of Neural Engineering”.
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Derek W. Ren (HBS Class of ’24)
We would like to share our latest highlight from one of our alumni Derek W. Ren (HBS ’24) for receiving a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

