The Coroner’s Silence Finalist for the PROSE Award for Legal Studies and Criminology
The Coroner’s Silence, latest book by Terence Keel ISG Faculty, has been named a finalist for the PROSE Award for Legal Studies and Criminology.
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Building Capacity for Robust Pesticide Regulation: Part I – Cumulative Impacts, A Patrick Allard Report
This new report calls for urgent reforms to California’s pesticide regulatory system, including stronger oversight of chemical mixtures and new legislative action to address cumulative health and environmental risks.
UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab Featured in the Daily Bruin
Quincy Peters’ family friend was shot and killed by police in 2008. Fifteen years later, she began working at the UCLA BioCritical Studies Lab – where researchers analyze the autopsies of people who have died in jails or during encounters with law enforcement officers – with the hopes of making legislative change to the policing system.
Jonah Walters, ISG Post-Doc Talk on Pepper Spray and Policing in the Age of Aerosol Weapons, March 5th 2026
Join us next March 5th for Jonah Walters’ talk on the history and impact of pepper spray and aerosol policing. This event explores how these weapons shape protest, public safety, and state power.
Valerie Tornini, ISG Faculty, Awarded the AY2025-2026 Faculty Writing Retreat Grant
The UCLA Center for the Study of Women|Barbra Streisand Center announced the AY25–26 Faculty Writing Retreat Grant awardees to support self-organized writing retreats designed to foster sustained research, collaboration, and intellectual community among UCLA faculty.
Upcoming Joint Symposium Between ISG and France’s National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Next March 17-18 we will be hosting the symposium between ISG and the CNRS “Rethinking Boundaries to Confront 21st-Century Challenges: Interdisciplinarity and Collaborations in the Anthropocene” in Royce Hall 314.