The Institute for Society and Genetics (ISG) is proud to announce that Professor Patrick Allard has been awarded the prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for his project, “Closing the Loopholes: Rethinking Pesticide Policy and Governance”.
ISG Faculty, Hannah Landecker, participated last Apr 4 – 5 2025, 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“.
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.
Terence Keel and Nicholas Shapiro earned UCLA’s 2024 Public Impact Research Awards for groundbreaking work on police custody deaths and environmental injustices in prisons.
California’s board approved indoor heat standards protecting millions of workers in hot workplaces, but excluded prisons and jails, leaving incarcerated people vulnerable as climate warms.