For ISG Professor Shane Campbell-Staton, his tools are comic books. In his winter quarter course “Biology of Superheroes”, Campbell-Staton challenges his students to develop their perspective on evolutionary biology, as he explores comic book stories of superheroes.
The commercialization of open access research in the US has sparked discussion among Christopher Kelty and Alexandra Lippman. In their recent article “In a race for mentions, it’s open season on researchers,” Kelty and Lippman discuss the culture of metrics and rank for visibility and status found in notable online open access platforms.
UCLA ISG congratulates Dr. Wayne Grody for being awarded this year as a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, the Biotechnology and Society Freshman Cluster course hosted Dr. Josiah Zayner as part of its DIY Biology Lecture series (co-hosted by the Institute for Society and Genetics and the UCLA Cluster Program).
Their goal is to uncover more information about how these animals move, eat, and what their genomes look like. Long hopes to detail how elephants without the benefit of tusks as tools may alter their behavior to get access to nutrients.
In plain English, the federal government is proposing reclassifying transgender people’s legal sex back to the sex assigned at birth. And if that sex at birth was listed wrong or left unclear, the government wants to put people through genetic testing to ensure a sort of “gender purity,” as it were.