ISG Professor Soraya de Chadarevian publishes her new book “Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome”
ISG Professor Soraya de Chadarevian has published a new book, Heredity Under the Microscope: Chromosomes and the Study of the Human Genome, now out from Chicago University Press. This impressive achievement offers a new history of postwar human genetics, and has been called “engaging” and “deft” by reviewers, praised for opening “fascinating new…
ISG Professor Rachel Lee has won a Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars for her project: Community-Engaged Approaches to Environmental Toxicants, Chronic Illness, and Gender.
Congratulations to ISG Professor Rachel Lee who has been selected as one of five faculty members who will receive the Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars. This program, supported with funding from the Chancellor’s Office, annually supports a cohort of UCLA faculty who will design a new course to integrate undergraduates into their…
ISG Professor Chris Kelty awarded a UCHRI’s 2020-21 Multicampus Faculty Working Group Grant
Congratulations to ISG Professor and Vice Chair of Undergraduate Education, Christopher Kelty, along with Michael Osman (UCLA Architecture) and Stephen Collier (UC Berkeley Environmental Design) who have been awarded a UCHRI’s 2020-21 Multicampus Faculty Working Group grant for the project: “Images of Resilience: GovTech, Data Buildings, and Artificial Biodiversity”. UCHRI is pleased…
ISG Assistant Professor, Shane Campbell-Staton, has won a Life Sciences Division Excellence in Research Award
Congratulations to ISG Assistant Professor Shane Campbell-Stanton who has won a Life Sciences Division Excellence in Research Award for his paper, “Winter storms drive rapid phenotypic, regulatory, and genomic shifts in the green anole lizard”, published in Science in 2017. The Center for Education Innovation & Learning in the Sciences (CEILS) congratulated…
UCLA responds with support for Black Lives Matter
8 Racial Justice Systems You Can Support Right Now – 6/10/2020 Credit to Wikipedia Images Following the recent murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, the Blacks Lives Matter movement has exploded in active work of anti-racism by sharing of knowledge and resources through various platforms…
Pandemic Participation: ISG Professor Christopher M. Kelty on Isolation and Participation in a Public Health Crisis
Drawing from ideas in his book, The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories, ISG Professor, Christopher M. Kelty, discusses in a blog post how participation changes during a pandemic and what it means for the future. “To treat participation as general—and democracy as a more specific apparatus to which it…
ISG Professor Soraya de Chadarevian writes “The Science and History on COVID-19”
ISG Professor Soroya de Chadarevian has partnered up with The Luskin Center for History and Policy and the UCLA Department of History in announcing “Then + Now: Short Takes by UCLA Historians in the Age of Corona”, a series of short and diverse reflections by historians on the current COVID-19 crisis. Professor…
ISG Professor Aaron Panofsky is named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow
Congratulations to Aaron Panofsky, vice chair of academic personnel and Associate Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology, at UCLA, who was named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow on May 22, 2020. The 2020 class of 27 Andrew Carnegie Fellows who were announced will receive $200,000 in…
ISG Professor Christopher Kelty publishes new book “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories”
We are pleased to announce the launch of ISG Professor Christopher Kelty’s new book, The Participant, which is a historical ethnography of the concept of participation and further discussion on how it has evolved. Since its release, The Participant has already gained plenty recognition from scholars near and far. Javier Lezaun, University…
Lifetime Achievement: ISG Founder Norton Wise awarded the History of Science Society’s 2019 Sarton Medal
Belated congratulations to Norton Wise, founding co-director of ISG and Distinguished Research Professor of History, Emeritus, at UCLA who was awarded the History of Science Society’s 2019 Sarton Medal for lifetime scholarly achievements on July 25, 2019. Wise’s outstanding work is centered on the history of physics in which he challenged many…
ISG Professor Terence Keel to give Goodspeed Lecture on “Christianity, Race, and Haunting of the Biomedical Sciences”
ISG Professor Terence Keel will present his lecture,”Chrisitianity, Race, and Haunting of the Biomedical Sciences,” in the distinguished Goodspeed Lecture series at the Denison University on October 22, 2019 between 7:00PM – 9:00PM. ISG proudly supports Professor Keel’s upcoming Lecture and encourages all who are able to attend and participate. “The idea…
ISG Professor Aaron Panofsky Discusses Genetic Ancestry Testing Among White Nationalists
In addressing the topic of white nationalism, sociologist and ISG Professor, Aaron Panofsky, examined and co-authored a research article on “Genetic ancestry testing among white nationalists: From identity repair to citizen science”, in which he utilized qualitative analysis of posts from an online forum dedicated to white nationalism called Stormfront. Panofsky shared…