Recently in ISG

Bharat Venkat, was featured in a Los Angeles Times article highlighting Los Angeles County’s new heat illness dashboard.

Congratulations to Valerie for the Research Award of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement, innovation, and leadership across our community.

Danielle’s Carr research has been featured in the “Big Tech Wants Direct Access to Our Brains” article in the NYT.

Congratulations to Danielle Carr for the Educational Innovation recognition of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards, recognizing outstanding achievement, innovation, and leadership across our community.

Congratulations to Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Bharat Venkat and Valerie Tornini who have been awarded the Faculty Mentor Award for exceptional dedication to mentoring undergraduate researchers.

Megan McEvoy’s participated in the UCLA State of the Campus 2026, where she emphasized collaboration, shared governance, and faculty engagement in shaping UCLA’s future. Megan reflected on collective resilience, ongoing challenges, and the importance of community, academic values, and inclusive dialogue in advancing the university’s mission.

WLNS interview with Prof. Terence Keel examined Isaiah Kirby’s shooting, questioning police decision‑making and the delayed use of less‑lethal force. He emphasized systemic issues in how such deaths are assessed, urging greater accountability, transparency, and scrutiny of official narratives surrounding police violence.

Deeply probing conversation with UCLA professor Terrence Keel, a leading scholar examining the intersection of race, science and public institutions. The discussion centers on his new book, The Coroner’s Silence, which investigates how death investigations—particularly in cases involving police custody—can obscure rather than illuminate the truth.

Terence Keel participated in the “Uncounted: Virginia” launch through a moderated discussion of his book The Coroner’s Silence, highlighting systemic flaws in death reporting. He emphasized how inconsistencies in coroners’ records obscure deaths in custody, raising broader concerns about transparency, accountability, and the accurate documentation of police-related fatalities.

Pork isn’t just eaten – fats, bones and other leftovers are turned into detergents and finishes for our homes. Behind the smooth, shiny surfaces lie the entrails of an extractivist industry with serious effects on animals people and the environment.

A talk and discussion by UCLA professors Nicholas Shapiro and Valerie Tornini.

The Valerie Tornini Lab received Scialog Collaborative Innovation Awards for interdisciplinary projects examining stress, neurodevelopment, and environmental change, integrating neurobiology, genetics, and social context to understand responses across changing ecosystems.