ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro has been selected as one of five faculty members to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars. This program, supported with the funding from the Chancellor’s Office, annually supports a cohort of UCLA faculty who will design a new course to integrate undergraduates into their community-engaged research projects.

Congratulations to ISG Professors Soraya de Chadarevian and Nicholas Shapiro for receiving the 2021 Life Sciences Excellence Award. The quality of nominations was outstanding this year which is a reflection of our commitment to world class research, educational innovation, and inclusive excellence in Life Sciences at UCLA. Excellence in Research Award for…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Congratulations to ISG Professor Terence Keel who has been selected as part of the 2020-21 class of Luskin Research Fellows. Known for its historical research and policy analysis, the Luskin Center for History and Policy awarded research team winners with funds to conduct research that will produce historical and policy analysis of issues of contemporary…

  ISG Professor Chris Kelty’s book The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories has been awarded an Association of University Presses Typographic Design Award: Please see the 2020 Scholarly Typographic Selections here.

Congratulations to ISG Professor Bharat Venkat who among 30 UCLA Faculty members was selected for a Career Development Award granted by the Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion (EDI). EDI annually solicits applications for the Faculty Career Development Award program (FCDA). Faculty Career Development Awards are given annually to regular rank Assistant…

ISG Professor Aaron Panofsky and former ISG postdoc Joan Donovan’s 2019 article, “Genetic Ancestry Testing Among White Nationalists” has just won the Star-Nelkin Prize for Best Article from the Science, Knowledge, and Technology section of the American Sociological Association. Abstract White nationalists have a genetic essentialist understanding of racial identity, so what…