The Institute’s Impact

Awards & Recognitions

2025 – 2026

● Danielle Carr, Recipient of the UCLA Society of Hellman Fellows Award

● Hyojung Kim, Manroop Kaur Turna and Elise Whitlinger Recipients of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity: Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Awards

● Vincent Duc Cao, Shreya Kalyanaraman, Saanvi Rai and Alexandra Maria Tabacu Recipients of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research: Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Engineering Awards

● Valerie Tornini, Research Award Recipient of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards

● Danielle Carr, Educational Innovation Recipient of the 2026 Life Sciences Excellence Awards

● Faculty Mentor Award Winners; Nanibaa’ A. Garrison, Bharat Venkat and Valerie Tornini

● Tornini Lab, Awarded Two Grants of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems

● Valerie Tornini, Awarded the AY2025-2026 Faculty Writing Retreat Grant

● Soraya de Chadarevian, Awarded the 2025 Blaise Pascal Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities

2024 – 2025

● Michelle Rensel, Awarded the Tier 3 Catalyst Grant by the UCLA Teaching & Learning Center

● Anne Gabrielle Go, Awarded the 2025 Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Research and Creativity

● Jessica W. Lynch, Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar

● Patrick Allard, Awarded Fulbright U.S. Scholar

● Nicholas Shapiro and Terence Keel, Awarded UCLA’s 2024 Public Impact Research Awards

2023 – 2024

● Bharat Venkat’s Book, “At the Limits of Cure,” Co-Awarded this Year’s Edie Turner Book Prize in Ethnographic Writing

2021 – 2022

● Nick Shapiro, Receives the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s “Data, Justice, and Society” Grant

2020 – 2021

● Wayne Grody, Recipient of the 2021 David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA Serge & Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award

● Nicholas Shapiro, Selected to Receive Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars

● Soraya de Chadarevian and Nicholas Shapiro, Recipients of the 2021 Life Sciences Excellence Award

● Michelle Rensel, Wins the Distinguished Teaching Award for Non-Senate Faculty given by the Academic Senate Committee on Teaching

● Terence Keel, Inducted as a Fellow into the International Society for Science and Religion.

● Bharat Venkat, Receives University of California President’s Faculty Research Fellowship for 2020–21

● Terence Keel, Named 2020-21 Luskin Research Fellow

● Chris Kelty, Receives an Association of University Presses Typographic Design Award for his book “The Participant: A Century of Participation in Four Stories”

● Bharat Venkat, Receives a Career Development Award 2020-2021 from the Office of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

● Aaron Panofsky and former ISG Postdoc Joan Donovan, Win the Star-Nelkin Prize from the American Sociological Association

● Rachel Lee, Won a Chancellor’s Award for Community-Engaged Scholars for her project: Community-Engaged Approaches to Environmental Toxicants, Chronic Illness, and Gender.

● Chris Kelty, Awarded a UCHRI’s 2020-21 Multicampus Faculty Working Group Grant

2019 – 2020

● Shane Campbell-Staton, Won a Life Sciences Division Excellence in Research Award

● Aaron Panofsky, Named a 2020 Andrew Carnegie Fellow

● Lifetime Achievement: ISG Founder Norton Wise awarded the History of Science Society’s 2019 Sarton Medal

2018 – 2019

● Wayne Grody, Awarded as 2018 Fellow of the American Association for Advancement of Science

2017 – 2018

● Patrick Allard, Hannah Landecker, & Amander Clark, Awarded a John Templeton Foundation Grant

2016 – 2017

● Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Tony Friscia, Jamie Lloyd-Smith, Chris Kelty, and Katherine Prager, Awarded a UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge Grant of $225,000

2015 – 2016

● Michael Alfaro, Awarded the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Award

● Lauren Phinney, Awarded the jane b semel HCI Appreciation and Recognition Award

● Jessica Lynch Alfaro and Michael Alfaro, Awarded a Grant Through São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP)

● Soraya de Chadarevian, Awarded NSF grant for “Heredity under the Microscope: A History of Human Chromosomes.”

● Patrick Allard, Receives 2015 Innovation in Regulatory Science Award

Statistics & Milestones

2021 – 2022

● 74% of the students that applied to our Class of 2022 HBS major were admitted

● In total, ISG faculty are collaborating with 23 different academic institutions nationally and 12 internationally

2020 – 2021

● The HBS major is the 8th most popular major in a poll recently taken of incoming UCLA students for the 2020-2021 academic year

2019 – 2020

● In 2019, ISG faculty gave 15 talks in 9 countries, across 4 continents