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  • Tornini Lab Awarded Two Grants of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems
    The Valerie Tornini Lab received Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards for interdisciplinary projects examining stress, neurodevelopment, and environmental change, integrating neurobiology, genetics, and social context to understand responses across changing ecosystems.
  • The Coroner’s Silence: An Evening with Terence Keel
    Lecture on Dr. Keel’s latest book, examining how race shapes forensic science and the investigation of death in the United States. The talk will explore the historical and contemporary implications of medical and legal systems that determine cause of death, raising critical questions about inequality, institutional accountability, and the production of scientific knowledge.
  • Megan McEvoy highlights rising stress behind UCLA’s competitive enrollment system
    Megan McEvoy quoted at the Daily bruin in “Competitive enrollment, waitlists cause stress for students, faculty alike” where she describes how competitive enrollment waitlists create ongoing stress, uncertainty, and emotional strain, affecting students’ academic planning while also increasing pressure on faculty.
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Featured Projects

Students in the Human Biology and Society major at UCLA complete an original research project at the intersection of biology and society in just 10 weeks. Students in Winter and Spring 2020 completed this project remotely during the COVID19 pandemic, and finished them during some of the largest protests against police violence in US history. To view their projects, click here.

Press: https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/2021/10/15/turner-and-colleagues-receive-grant-to-pinpoint-sources-of-heat-injustice/

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Spotlight

Avantika Aggarwal, Hanna Boughanem & Saanvi Rai (HBS, ’25)

This Fall’s 108 Capstone projects have showcased remarkable creativity, collaboration, and impact. We are proud to spotlight Avantika Aggarwal, Hanna Boughanem and Saanvi Rai for their stand out project In the Grey Zone: Doctoring Post-Dobbs.

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