Joey Wetmore interned with the UCLA Multiple Sclerosis Achievement Center (MSAC) as part of his Human Biology & Society (B.S.) major. He is also a Public Health minor and plans on graduating in June of 2013. Read more here INTERN INSIGHTS: JOEY WETMORE Center for Community Learning (CCL): How did you land your internship? JW: An internship or research position…
[Plenary Lecture given on *May 27, 2012* at the Canadian Society for the History of Medicine Annual Conference, University of Waterloo] Monica Green, an Arizona State University professor known as “the foremost authority on medicine in the Middle Ages,” examines how her field has changed in recent years. In 2001, two genetic breakthroughs were made – the entire genomes for both plague…
ISG Associate, Patrick Boudreault, is featured in a video promoting the UC Onward California campaign entitled “Language is in Our Minds“. Watch the video here Onward California aims to partner with California-friendly businesses in 2012, building a five-year, multimillion dollar commitment to support undergraduate education. With the help of community conscious partners, the California Dream is not only alive—it is…
ISG faculty, Hannah Landecker, discuses technology, gender, and epigenomics in her interview featured in the Center for the Study of Women’s monthly newsletter. Download and read the full newsletter here
ISG postdoctoral fellow, Jennifer Hahn-Holbrook is interviewed by the UCLA Newsroom about her recent research into postpartum depression. Excerpt: “Scientists recruited 210 pregnant women of different ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds, surveying them three times during pregnancy — at 19, 29 and 37 weeks — and then eight weeks after giving birth. The women were asked in interviews about how much…
Dr. Saguy, a sociologist at U.C.L.A., methodically teases out all the overtones of the loaded words we use to describe big bodies in her book, “What’s Wrong with Fat”. These bodies are, after all, neither good nor bad, just big. But “fat” often implies the coexistence of sloth, gluttony and self-indulgence. “Obesity” equals disease to medical professionals, while in the…