ISG faculty Danielle Carr discusses “the history and present state of American unwellness and how that’s been shaped by psychiatry, prescription drugs, neuroscience, popular culture, smartphones and social media. We trace the rise of psychiatry as a Gilded Age human science, the disastrous contradictions of asylum deinstitutionalization, the invention of neuroscience and deep brain stimulation, Elon Musk’s Neuralink fraudulence, how…
ISG Faculty Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel are two of only six recipients of UCLA’s 2024 Public Impact Research Awards. The annual awards, given by the UCLA Office of Research and Creative Activities, provide a platform to celebrate the efforts of faculty translating research into positive public action that benefits local, national and global communities. An awards ceremony will be…
Statement of the UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics Faculty in response to the attacks on the encampment and ensuing police violence, April 30 to May 2 2024. We, the members of the Institute for Society and Genetics, which includes both faculty members and students who were physically and violently attacked on the nights of 30 April to 1 May,…
Derek W. Ren, Human Biology and Society B.S., class of 2024 has received 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. Each year, recent graduates, graduate students, and more than 800 faculty and professionals, are selected for the Fulbright Program. These finalists engage in graduate…
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…
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.