Recently in ISG

Congratulations to ISG Faculty member Jessica Lynch for her collaboration on a research study about sexual selection in tiny Brazilian squirrel monkeys. Lynch worked with lead research team at the California Lutheran University.

ISG Faculty member Chris Kelty’s new UCLA podcast, “The Labyrinth Project,” captures the complexity of the urban ecosystem. The podcast is inspired by the Labyrinth Project research initiative and funded by the UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge.

During a time of campus closure and remote learning, UCLA Library reimagined its services critical for students to carry out their research and academic coursework. Two students of “Red Hot LA” class, Alexandra Nechaev (’21) and Alice Lu (’21),  shared their reflections on the invaluable support that UCLA librarians exhibited.

Terence Keel shares his interest and extensive research on how Christian precepts have shaped racial and scientific attitude into the 21st century, which includes his most recent investigation into how doctors classify deaths of Black and brown people while in police custody.

Congratulations to ISG Faculty member Terence Keel, whose book “Divine Variations: How Christian Thought Became Racial Science” won the 2021 Iris Book Award.

Congratulations to Prof. Wayne Grody who is the recipient of the 2021 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award. 

Congratulations to Prof. Nicholas Shapiro who has been selected as one of five faculty members to receive the Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars.

Congratulations to Prof. Soraya de Chadarevian and Dr. Nicholas Shapiro for receiving the 2021 Life Sciences Excellence Award.

Congratulations to Dr. Michelle Rensel for winning the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty given by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching.

Recording of the Structural Racism in Biomedical Research Webinar presented by Dr. Garrison and Dr. Keel and co-sponsored by the Research Theme in Health Equity & Translational Social Science (HETSS) and the Rangell Social Medicine Grand Rounds Series.

Congratulations to ISG Associate Professor Terence Keel for being inducted as a Fellow into the International Society for Science and Religion.

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.