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Archive: inSites: What's on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007
Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF - from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Café conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide™, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here's a handy index of the content we brought you in November on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.
Feature Stories - The Big Picture on the UCSF.edu Homepage
A Bug in Our Blood: A Conversation with UCSF Health Economist Leslie Wilson
Every two seconds, someone in America needs a blood transfusion. School of Pharmacy health economist Leslie Wilson knows what it costs to keep our blood supply safe...
From High School to International Triumph
After a summer at UCSF working on their own genetic engineering project, six students just out of high school and one undergraduate have just taken one of the top honors in an international competition among universities as familiar as Caltech and distant as Peking University...
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Name Becomes Official
During a special ceremony on November 19, UCSF's cancer center was renamed the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, in tribute to the family's commitment to improving lives around the world and their trust in UCSF's ability to rapidly translate cancer discoveries into compassionate care...
Speaker Pelosi Meets with UCSF Researchers at the SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed a crowd of researchers, reporters, staff and veterans at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) on Nov. 12 in observation of Veterans Day...
Family Trees: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist Esteban Burchard
Knowing who you really are is more than a psychological imperative. Just as our genes influence our overall health, our particular ethnicity can make us more or less susceptible to different diseases and to the drugs designed to treat them. Just ask Esteban Burchard, MD who studies asthma risk in Latinos...
UCSF Faculty Coach Vietnamese Medical Education Leaders to Reform Curriculum Using Evidence-Based Medicine, Problem-Based Learning
In 2003, UCSF's Bixby Center formed an ongoing partnership with Vietnamese medical schools to promote medical education reform. Recently, a group of Vietnamese doctors, professors and medical school administrators met with UCSF faculty to learn how evidence-based medicine and problem-based learning methods used in the US might be applied to Vietnamese medical education...
News Center - News and Research for the Global UCSF Community
- • UCSF
honors William J. Rutter via symposium on medicine and high tech
- • UCSF
professor receives top award in nurse leadership in aging
- • UCSF
symposium on medicine and high tech to honor William J. Rutter
- • UCSF
renames Cancer Center as tribute to Bay Area philanthropist Helen Diller
- • Yamanaka
Reports Additional Success in Reprogramming Human Adult Cells into Embryonic-like
Stem Cells
- • UCSF's
Kenyon One of Ten Honored with 2008 AARP The Magazine Inspire Award
- • Cigarettes
Add to Alcohol Damage in Brains of HIV-Infected People
- • Steven
Beckwith Named UC VP for Research
UC Newsroom - • Shinya
Yamanaka Reprograms Human Adult Cells into Embryonic-like Stem Cells
- • Latinos,
Blacks Might Survive Longer with Alzheimer's, Study Suggests
- • UCSF
Hosts Exhibit on Historic Tobacco Advertising
- • Nicotine
addiction slashed in test of new cigarette smoking strategy
- • Cellular
response to stress signals predicts future tumor formation in women diagnosed
with common type of pre-breast cancer
- • UCSF
Addresses Concerns Following Sexual Assault on Mission Bay Campus
- • New
HIV vaccine target could solve mutation problem
- • Brains
of term infants with heart disease resemble those of preemies
- • Studies
Show Importance of Language Services on Reducing Disparities, Increasing Quality
of Patient Care
- • New
HIV vaccine target could solve mutation problem
- • New
standards address social services for patients living with cancer
- • Health
care trio forges partnership to improve breast cancer care in Marin
- • Patients
Prefer Simplified Advance Directive over Standard Form
- • UCSF's OLLI Courses Focus on Stress and Nutrition
- • UCSF Medical
Center to Offer Free Screening for Hepatitis B
- • NIH
doubles support for vital HIV/AIDS research center
- • UCSF
Student Wins Competition for Invention of Instrument that Measures Pain Levels
- • UCSF
Exhibits X-Ray Project Depicting Human Toll of Terrorism
- • Staff
Advisors to Regents to Talk About their Role
- • Registration
Begins for Emergency Response Training at UCSF
- • Supervisor
Maxwell Tours Children's Hospital, Reviews Plans for New Medical Center
at Mission Bay
- • Renowned
Environmental Health Expert to Speak About Secret War on Cancer
- • UCSF
to Honor Rutter with Symposium on November 29
- • UCSF
Cancer Center Gets New Name Today
- • UCSF
Names Callaham as Chair of New Department of Emergency Medicine
- • UCSF
Kicks Off Medical Humanities Series Focusing on Medicine, Music and Creativity
- • Campus
Vending Machines Offer a Smarter Way to Snack
- • UCSF
to Host Inaugural Faculty Development Lecture on Leadership
- • Speaker
Pelosi Meets with UCSF Researchers at the SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center
- • Kerner
Receives France's Légion d'Honneur from President Nicolas
Sarkozy
- • People
Intimately Affected by Iraq War to Share Stories on Thursday
- • UCSF
Leaders to Give Progress Report on Nov. 20 on Nurturing Diversity
- • UCSF
Addresses Concerns Following Sexual Assault on Mission Bay Campus
- • UCSF
to Provide Support During National Survivors of Suicide Day
- • NIH
Awards UCSF Grant for Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility
Research
- • UC
Provost Hume Urges Students to Excel Through Research and Service
- • Mayor
Delivers Upbeat State of San Francisco Address
- • UCSF
Launches Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
- • UCSF's
OLLI Courses Focus on Stress and Nutrition
- • Police Report Sexual Assault at Mission Bay Housing
- • UCSF
Welcomes Director of Reproductive Health and the Environment
- • UCSF
Pursues Stronger Partnership with San Francisco Unified School District
- • Nov 30, A Bug in Our Blood: A Conversation with UCSF Health Economist Leslie Wilson ( Read it | Hear it )
- • Nov 16, Health in the Time of Poison: A Conversation with Reproductive Health Expert Tracey Woodruff, PhD ( Read it | Hear it )
- • Nov 9, Family Trees: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist Esteban Burchard ( Read it | Hear it )
- • Nov 2, Ideas Make Good Presents ( Read it | Hear it )
- • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast in iTunes
- • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast and feed in your preferred newsreader
- • Meet
New UCSF Faculty
- • I
Was a Neuroscience Guinea Pig: How Scientists Scrambled My Brain
WIRED
- • The
Many Faces of Trauma Care
(UCSF School of Medicine) - • What's
on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007
- Pioneer
in Asian American Mental Health Visits UCSF During Diversity Celebration
- Health
Care Disparities Research Showcased During UCSF Annual Diversity Celebration
- UCSF
Science Café 54: A Conversation with Leslie Wilson
- UCSF
Science Café 53: A Conversation with Tracey Woodruff, PhD
- UCSF
Science Café 52: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist Esteban Burchard