Meet new Science & Justice affiliate, Tamara Pico!
Welcome our new Science & Justice affiliate, Tamara Pico! Dr. Pico is a postdoctoral scholar and incoming Assistant Professor of Earth & Planetary Sciences. Continue Reading Meet new Science & Justice affiliate, Tamara Pico!
Alondra Nelson named as Deputy Director for Science and Society at OSTP
Science & Justice sends our congratulations to longtime friend and collaborator Alondra Nelson, who has been appointed by the Biden/Harris administration to the position of Deputy Director for Science and Society in the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). Continue Reading Alondra Nelson named as Deputy Director for Science and Society at OSTP
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SJTP Fellow Dorothy R. Santos named YBCA 100 Honoree of 2020
SJTP fellow Dorothy R. Santos named an honoree by San Francisco’s Yerba Buena Center for the Arts! Continue Reading SJTP Fellow Dorothy R. Santos named YBCA 100 Honoree of 2020
The Pandemicene Podcast Season 2 launches January 27!
The SJRC Pandemicene Project to reworld towards justice Season 2 of the podcast series begins airing January 27th! Episode #10 of the series will feature a roundtable discussion with the Pandemicene Team graduate and undergraduate students who crafted and produced 9 podcast episodes, 9 blogs, and a zine for Season 1. Podcast episodes air Wednesday… Continue Reading The Pandemicene Podcast Season 2 launches January 27!
The Pandemicene Project launches website for student podcasts and blogs
How do we create knowledge that orients us towards justice at this critical historical juncture, in the middle of a viral pandemic, and a pandemic of social inequality and racial discrimination that has sparked global unrest? The SJRC Pandemicene Project to Re-world Towards Justice has launched a new website to host student podcasts and blogs! The… Continue Reading The Pandemicene Project launches website for student podcasts and blogs
Re-worlding Towards Justice: Undergraduate students join SJRC researchers
In Winter quarter, undergraduate student interns, representing 14 majors and minors, will join current SJRC researchers for Season 2 of The Pandemicene Project and collaborative research. Continue Reading Re-worlding Towards Justice: Undergraduate students join SJRC researchers
Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Interim SJRC Director (fall 2020) James Doucet-Battle’s new book challenges assumptions about race within diabetes research and delves into the issue through the lens of African American experience. Learn more in this campus news article, “Uncovering the social factors lurking within diabetes risk.”
UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers
The interactive web project by Film & Digital Media Professor Sharon Daniel creates cumulative public record and evolving history of the pandemic’s impact on those incarcerated. Exposed is the latest in a series of new media documentary projects created by Daniel that reveal social and economic injustice across public institutions, including the criminal justice system, the prison industrial complex,… Continue Reading UCSC arts professor documents spread of COVID-19 inside prisons, jails, and detention centers