Recently in ISG

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.

In 2016, 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 the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative.

In his interview with Chemistry World, a publication of the Royal Society of Chemistry, Nicholas Shapiro discusses his research and analysis in an emerging subfield ‘Chemo-ethnography,’ which probes how chemistry impacts human culture.

Congratulations to ISG Professor Terence Keel who has been selected as part of the 2020-21 class of Luskin Research Fellows.

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.

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).

Aaron Panofsky and 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.

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.

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.