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…
ISG is proud to announce that one of our Human, Biology & Society major students, Alexa Golden(’13), has been awarded the Distinguished Senior Award by the UCLA Alumni Association. These awards recognize leadership, involvement and service to the UCLA community as well as academic excellence.
Through the hard work of UCLA Profs. Dan Blumstein (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) and Barbara Natterson-Horowitz (Cardiology), a growing Program in Evolutionary Medicine has been established. This exciting enterprise brings together faculty and students from across campus to collaborate and educate in the burgeoning field of evolutionary approaches to health and disease. Evolutionary medicine is an emerging field that combines…
Studies by the geneticist and social scientist James Fowler suggest that serotonin, the neurotransmitter connected to mood disorders and depression, is strongly implicated in voting behavior. Article covered in NYTimes Opinion by Victoria Bassetti.