Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Rensel for winning the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty given by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching. This is an enormously competitive University-wide award, and reflects both the extraordinary caliber of Dr. Rensel’s teaching as well as the respect and gratitude her students have for her.
Thank you to those who were able to attend the Structural Racism in Biomedical Research Webinar co-sponsored by the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS) and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series on Friday, May 7th at 12:30pm. For those of you who were unable to attend, here is the link to recording.
Congratulations to ISG Associate Professor Terence Keel for being inducted as a Fellow into the International Society for Science and Religion. Keel is the first African American to be inducted into this global society. Invitations are the result of a careful selection process after nomination by existing Fellows. As an Academy, the Society has the role of fostering the highest standard of research…
Congratulations to ISG Assistant Professor Bharat Venkat for being one of six recipients to receive the University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020–21, a prestigious award which has supported the work of junior and senior UC faculty for over 30 years. Spanning in scale from the oceanic to the microbial, the nuclear, and the transnational, the work of…
Image Credit: Patrick Semansky/AP In November of 2016 ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro emailed a dozen colleagues initiating a collective conversation on how they might be able to leverage their research skills in anticipation of the new administration’s likely dismantlement of federal environmental and climate protections. This email led to the creation of the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative (EDGI), which…
In his interview with Chemistry World, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry, ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro discusses his research and analysis in an emerging subfield ‘Chemo-ethnography,’ which probes how chemistry impacts human culture. Additionally, Shapiro utilizes his research to support that an issue involves examining both the chemical and cultural context. ‘Chemo-ethnography is simply anthropology recognising that…