ISG would like to congratulate and commend Nicolas Cevallo for sharing his experience of microaggression challenges with the UCLA community as a student of color. Cevallos’s perspective serves as a call for awareness, advocacy and acknowledgment of many students who share in similar challenges in academia.
For ISG Professor Shane Campbell-Staton, his tools are comic books. In his winter quarter course “Biology of Superheroes”, Campbell-Staton challenges his students to develop their perspective on evolutionary biology, as he explores comic book stories of superheroes.
The commercialization of open access research in the US has sparked discussion among Christopher Kelty and Alexandra Lippman. In their recent article “In a race for mentions, it’s open season on researchers,” Kelty and Lippman discuss the culture of metrics and rank for visibility and status found in notable online open access platforms.
UCLA ISG congratulates Dr. Wayne Grody for being awarded this year as a fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS).
On Wednesday, November 28, 2018, the Biotechnology and Society Freshman Cluster course hosted Dr. Josiah Zayner as part of its DIY Biology Lecture series (co-hosted by the Institute for Society and Genetics and the UCLA Cluster Program).
Their goal is to uncover more information about how these animals move, eat, and what their genomes look like. Long hopes to detail how elephants without the benefit of tusks as tools may alter their behavior to get access to nutrients.