The UCLA Heat Lab, directed by ISG faculty Bharat Venkat, is featured in a story on NBC4 for their research on LA food trucks. https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/tracking-hot-temperatures-inside-food-trucks/3294210/ By Lolita Lopez • Published December 19, 2023 • Updated on December 20, 2023 Excerpt: Hot temperatures inside food trucks is the focus of a study recently released by the UCLA Heat Lab. Jason Sutedja is a…
![Bharat Venkat’s book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) co-awarded this year’s Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing](https://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2019/07/978-1-4780-1472-0_pr-600x533.jpg)
Congratulations to ISG Faculty, Bharat Venkat! His book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) was co-awarded the 2023 Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing.
![Terence Keel featured in Washington Post article: Study of Md. in-custody deaths finds many occur in first 10 days in jail](https://socgen.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2023/10/pexels-ron-lach-10473676-767x533.jpg)
By Ellie Silverman and Jasmine Hilton Excerpt: “…The study analyzed 180 in-custody deaths in 10 Maryland detention centers and found that about half of those people died within the first 10 days of incarceration. And for those whose deaths were deemed to be from natural causes, the report shows they died nearly three decades younger than the state life expectancy. The…