COVID-19: Open Letters
The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, developing news items, and calls for action, and organizing and participating in online events. Help Spread the Word of These Open Letters Achieving A Fair and Effective… Continue Reading COVID-19: Open Letters
COVID-19: Calls-For-Action
The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, developing news items, and calls for action, and organizing and participating in online events. Help Spread the Word of These Calls for Action In a New… Continue Reading COVID-19: Calls-For-Action
COVID-19: Resources for Teaching
The SJRC has a robust network of local and international public health experts, scholars, and practitioners leading the way with collecting resources for teaching about COVID-19, writing open response letters, developing news items, and calls for action and organizing and participating in online events. Looking to teach about Covid-19 (coronavirus)? Follow the conversation on Twitter via #teachthevirus, #CoronaVirusSyllabus, and #CoronaSyllabus Open… Continue Reading COVID-19: Resources for Teaching
[postponed] Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 [postponed due to COVID-19] All-Day Join the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz on Wednesday April 22nd, for Giving Day, a 24-hour online fundraising drive! Help us celebrate the 10 year anniversary of our Science & Justice Training Program (SJTP) by supporting our graduate student researchers through the Science… Continue Reading [postponed] Giving Day fundraiser for Science & Justice Training Program
Spring 2020 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity
The Science & Justice Research Center (SJRC) will employ a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) with a 50% appointment for the Spring 2020 term; (22 hrs/week) appointment at Step 7. This appointment is funded by a grant through CITRIS and the Banatao Institute. General Scope In consultation with the Center Manager, and Director(s), the GSR will… Continue Reading Spring 2020 Graduate Student Researcher Opportunity
The Hastings Center announces Jenny Reardon as a new fellow
Jenny Reardon, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Science & Justice Research Center, was elected for informing scholarship and public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, science, and technology. More information can be found in this campus news article: https://news.ucsc.edu/2020/01/reardon-hastings.html More on the fellows can be found at: https://www.thehastingscenter.org/news/new-hastings-center-fellows-elected-3/
Public conversation about race and racial reconciliation on Jan. 22
The public is invited to hear Alondra Nelson (President, Social Sciences Research Council) and Herman Gray (Emeritus Professor of Sociology, UC Santa Cruz) at Kuumbwa Jazz Center in a conversation on racial reconciliation and the future of race in America as moderated by Science & Justice Founding Director Jenny Reardon. The evening is being co-presented by… Continue Reading Public conversation about race and racial reconciliation on Jan. 22
Developing Story: Forensic Genomics, Surveillance, and Ethics
In Late October 2019, Detective Michael Fields of the Orlando, Florida Police Department obtained the apparently first-ever warrant to be able to search a commercial database containing sequenced DNA and genealogical genetic ancestry information in an effort to track and identify a serial rapist who assaulted a number of women decades ago. After Judge Patricia… Continue Reading Developing Story: Forensic Genomics, Surveillance, and Ethics
Julie Guthman’s Wilted named a best book of 2019
U.S. Right to Know, a nonprofit investigative research group focused on the food industry has named Wilted: Pathogens, Chemicals, and the Fragile Future of the Strawberry Industry (UC Press, 2019), written by Science & Justice Affiliate, UC Santa Cruz Professor of Social Sciences Julie Guthman as one of the best books of 2019 about the U.S. food system.… Continue Reading Julie Guthman’s Wilted named a best book of 2019
Call for Undergraduate Individual Study
The SJRC hosts Individual Study students to collaborate on current research projects to help inform collaborative research projects, developing blogs, opinion pieces, papers and proposals as well as Center events and programming. Students can also work on senior thesis projects related to Center Themes (ie: forensic genomics, queer ecology, CRISPR, data and privacy, health care… Continue Reading Call for Undergraduate Individual Study