Call for Action: Community Relief Aid for Putumayo, Mocoa
From Kristina Lyons, SJRC Affiliate in Feminist Science Studies: The capital city of Putumayo, Mocoa, where I have been engaged in research and accompanying agro-life popular processes since 2004, suffered a devastating avalanche in the early morning hours after three rivers, the Mocoa, Mulato and Sancoyaco, flooded and overtook 17 neighborhoods. At least 236 people have been killed, more than 250 more… Continue Reading Call for Action: Community Relief Aid for Putumayo, Mocoa
Spring Course | UCSC FDM 225: Software Studies
UCSC Science & Justice affiliate Warren Sack, Professor of Film & Digital Media and Digital Arts & New Media, will offer FDM 225: Software Studies this coming spring term. Continue Reading Spring Course | UCSC FDM 225: Software Studies
Jenny Reardon receives Humboldt Foundation award
(Originally posted on Sociology@UCSC) Jenny Reardon, professor of sociology and director of the Science & Justice Research Center at UC Santa Cruz, is the winner of the 2017 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award. The award recognizes scholars who have earned lifetime achievements in research. In addition, award recipients are invited to spend a year collaborating with… Continue Reading Jenny Reardon receives Humboldt Foundation award
The Anthropology and Environment Society has awarded its Junior Scholar Prize to Kristina Lyons
Congratulations to Science & Justice Professor Kristina Lyons! Lyons, Assistant Professor of Feminist Science Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz was awarded the 2016 AES Junior Scholar award for the article “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils, Selva, and Small Farmers under the Gun of the U.S.- Colombia War on Drugs” is published in Cultural Anthropology (Volume 31, Number 1:… Continue Reading The Anthropology and Environment Society has awarded its Junior Scholar Prize to Kristina Lyons
Call for Action: UCSC community reaffirms commitment to shared #UCSCvalues
The UC Santa Cruz community is committed to social justice. It has rich ties among the arts, natural and social sciences, and humanities. Inquiries based on science-and-fact are supported in a robust natural world. This is our mission. Read and Sign: a message from the UCSC community reaffirming our shared values During a time when current… Continue Reading Call for Action: UCSC community reaffirms commitment to shared #UCSCvalues
In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election of Donald Trump: a Statement from the UCSC Science and Justice Research Center
Dear Science and Justice Friends, Colleagues, Allies and Communities, Like many of you, all of us at SJRC have been reflecting, re-grouping and gearing up for action in light of the November 2016 US presidential election. We are re-committing to our core values and standing in solidarity with all those threatened by state… Continue Reading In the wake of the 2016 Presidential Election of Donald Trump: a Statement from the UCSC Science and Justice Research Center
S&J professor Karen Barad receives multiple honors in Europe
Karen Barad received an honorary doctorate in the Arts at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden. Find out more about this story.
Kate Weatherford Darling, joins SJRC as Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs
Katherine (Kate) Weatherford Darling is a sociologist working across the boundaries of the sociology of health, illness and disability, and feminist science studies. Kate is currently a Doctoral Candidate at UC San Francisco. She first joined the Science and Justice Research Center as a Visiting Scholar and a Graduate Student Researcher in 2015 and worked with the SJRC team to plan the Just Data? conference held May 2016 at UCSC. Continue Reading Kate Weatherford Darling, joins SJRC as Assistant Director of Research and Academic Programs
SJTP fellow awarded AAUW fellowship
Congratulations to Science and Justice Training Program Fellow and past Graduate Student Researcher, Lizzy Hare (Anthropology), for being awarded a 2016-2017 fellowship from the American Association of University Women (AAUW). Read the full story here. More on Lizzy’s research can be found here.
How can health equity be ensured in the age of precision medicine?
Managing big biodata and health equity were some of the hot issues debated at Just Data? Justice, Knowledge and Care in an Age of Precision Medicine, a collaborative meeting to shape the science and justice agenda in the age precision medicine. Read the full story here.