UCSF's LGBTQ Community Assures Teens That 'It Gets Better'
<p>To increase awareness about the "coming out" process, members of UCSF’s LGBTQ community created an “It Gets Better” video to commemorate National Coming Out Day on October 11.</p>
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Top Students Tell Why They Chose UCSF
<p>Top students from UCSF's four professional schools and the Graduate Division tell why they chose to study at UCSF, one of the nation's premier health sciences universities, in a new video captured during new student orientation day.</p>
Implementation Science Links Research With Real-World Practice to Improve Health
<p>Why do medical research findings often fail to reach the people who could benefit from them most? This and other questions are the focus of Implementation Science, a field of study that addresses the wide-ranging challenges of translating research knowledge into real-life practice.</p>
Thousands Enroll in UCSF Online Health Courses
<p>In what is being called a grand experiment in higher education, UCSF and other top universities are offering free, online classes through the website Coursera. More than 38,000 people have enrolled in UCSF’s three classes since the University announced them on July 19.</p>
White Coat Ceremony Marks Start of Medical School at UCSF
<p>The UCSF School of Medicine’s entering class, which represents 16 countries of birth, ranging from Australia to Zimbabwe, participated in the traditional White Coat Ceremony before family, friends and fellow classmates on Sept. 7.</p>
New Anatomy Learning Center Prepares Next Generation of Clinicians
<p>The days of carrying hefty, 1,500-page <em>Gray’s Anatomy </em>textbooks may be long gone, but not much more has changed over the decades in how medical students learn anatomy <span>—</span> until now.</p>
First-Generation College Students Find Support at UCSF
<p>A UCSF support program for first-generation college students launched in 2008 with a small, monthly discussion group and has evolved into the newly formed First Generation College Student Initiative, which will expand services and resources to this "invisible community."</p>
Interns Learn to EXCEL in Health Care Jobs
<p>A good job in health care was the key to a better life for Shameka Jones, but the path to getting one hasn’t been easy.</p>
Diversity of Global Health Graduating Class Reflects Program's Broad Reach
<p>The newest graduates of UCSF’s Global Health Sciences masters program are idealistic but well aware that they don’t live in an ideal world. They’re not going to let that stop them.</p>
A Molecule Central to Diabetes Is Uncovered
At its most fundamental level, diabetes is a disease characterized by stress — microscopic stress that causes inflammation and the loss of insulin production in the pancreas, and system-wide stress due to the loss of that blood-sugar-regulating hormone.
Young Women Unleash Their Potential
The annual summit brings together more than 250 young women from 20 schools for a day to discuss issues most important to them. Topics ranged from building self esteem, avoiding teen pregnancy, and preparing for college life.
Grants Fund Teen Wellness Programs
The UCSF National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health supports student-designed health and wellness programs across San Francisco, including a mentor group and yoga classes at George Washington High School.
AIDS 2012 Declaration Draws Support to End Global AIDS Epidemic
<p>Nearly 4,000 people around the world have shown their support for ending the global AIDS epidemic by signing an online declaration during the XIX International AIDS Conference.</p>
Warner Greene Authors HIV/AIDS Medicine Textbook for Developing World
Warner C. Greene, MD, a professor of medicine, microbiology and immunology at UCSFwho directs virology and immunology research at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes, has joined with other global AIDS experts to release a locally affordable version of the world’s leading AIDS medical textbook.