Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award to Professor Patrick Allard
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”.
Hannah Landecker in the Metabolic Futures Workshop as Keynote Speaker
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.
Jessica Lynch Featured on NewScientist Article: Stone Tools Help Monkeys Thrive in Hostile Habitats
ISG faculty, Jessica Lynch, research has been featured on a NewScientist article “Stone tools help monkeys thrive in hostile habitats”.
ISG Faculty Danielle Carr Interviewed on The Dig podcast
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.
ISG Faculty Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel Awarded UCLA’s 2024 Public Impact Research Awards
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.
Nicholas Shapiro & Bharat Venkat, Featured in the LA Times: California Will Finally Have Indoor Heat Standards for Workplaces — with a Cruel Exception
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.
Derek W. Ren
Derek W. Ren, Human Biology and Society B.S., class of 2024 has received a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award for the 2024-2025 academic year from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.
Bharat Venkat’s Research Featured in NBC4 Story: “Study Tracks Hot Temperatures Inside LA Food Trucks”
The UCLA Heat Lab, directed by ISG faculty Bharat Venkat, is featured in a story on NBC4 for their research on LA food trucks.
Bharat Venkat’s Book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) co-Awarded this Year’s Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing
Congratulations to ISG Faculty, Bharat Venkat! His book, At the Limits of Cure (2021) was co-awarded the 2023 Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing.
Terence Keel Featured in Washington Post Article: Study of Md. in-Custody Deaths Finds Many Occur in First 10 Days in Jail
The study analyzed 180 in-custody deaths in 10 Maryland detention centers and found that about half of those people died within the first 10 days of incarceration.
Bharat Venkat’s Heat Lab Featured in LA Times Op-ed: “L.A. loves food trucks. With more heat waves, they can be dangerous for people working in them”
July delivered an irrefutable argument about the extent of climate change: A recent analysis suggests that 81% of the Earth’s population lives in places that experienced extreme heat attributable to global warming sometime during the month. Extreme heat is not just uncomfortable; it can be debilitating, and even deadly.
Bharat Venkat Interviewed on KCRW, “Climate change means hotter summers. Here’s how to prepare”
The National Weather Service has issued an excessive heat warning for many parts of the U.S. this week. Parts of LA, like the San Fernando Valley, are headed for triple-digit temperatures this weekend. Heat negatively affects some people more than others — UCLA Heat Lab Director Bharat Venkat looks at it as thermal inequality.