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ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro’s collaborative research cited in the 2020 Vice Presidential Debate
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…
ISG Professor Nicholas Shapiro inspires conversation of ‘Chemo-ethnography’ in his interview with “Chemistry World”
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…
ISG Professor Terence Keel named 2020-21 Luskin Research Fellow
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 receives an Association of University Presses Typographic Design Award for his book “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories”
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.
ISG Professor Bharat Venkat receives a Career Development Award 2020-2021 from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion
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 win the Star-Nelkin Prize from the American Sociological Association
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…
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…