Congratulations to ISG Professor Wayne Grody for being selected as one of the recipients of the 2021 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award. Dr. Grody has been awarded with $1250 and will be acknowledged in the Hippocratic Oath Ceremony’s oath program.
ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro selected to receive Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars
ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro has been selected as one of five faculty members to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars. This program, supported with the funding from the Chancellor’s Office, annually supports a cohort of UCLA faculty who will design a new course to integrate undergraduates into their community-engaged research projects. Shapiro has been granted $10,000 in research funds.…
Congratulations to ISG Professors Soraya de Chadarevian and Nicholas Shapiro for receiving the 2021 Life Sciences Excellence Award. The quality of nominations was outstanding this year which is a reflection of our commitment to world class research, educational innovation, and inclusive excellence in Life Sciences at UCLA. Excellence in Research Award for a Tenured Professor ISG Professor Soraya de Chadarevian…
Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Rensel for winning the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty given by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. This is an enormously competitive University-wide award, and reflects both the extraordinary caliber of Dr. Rensel’s teaching as well as the respect and gratitude her students have for her.
Thank you to those who were able to attend the Structural Racism in Biomedical Research Webinar co-sponsored by the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS) and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series on Friday, May 7th at 12:30pm. For those of you who were unable to attend, here is the link to recording.
Congratulations to ISG Associate Professor Terence Keel for being inducted as a Fellow into the International Society for Science and Religion. Keel is the first African American to be inducted into this global society. Invitations are the result of a careful selection process after nomination by existing Fellows. As an Academy, the Society has the role of fostering the highest standard of research…