ISG Faculty Hannah Landecker participated last Apr 4-5 in the Metabolic Futures workshop, at Stuttgart, Germany. Where she presented the Keynote Lecture Distilled, Emulsified, Suspended: On Viscosity and Time in the Metabolism of Mass Production.
ISG faculty Jessica Lynch research has been featured on a NewScientist article “Stone tools help monkeys thrive in hostile habitats“. Find the full article here!
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…
ISG Faculty, Nicholas Shapiro and Bharat Venkat, co-author an opinon piece for the LA Times: “California will finally have indoor heat standards for workplaces — with a cruel exception”. Excerpt: “A state board recently voted unanimously to create long-awaited indoor heat standards for California workers. After a final legal review, that will mean protections for millions of people with jobs…
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,…