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<p>Three outstanding members of the UCSF community will receive 2012 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Awards for their exceptional leadership in advancing the goal of achieving greater ethnic and cultural diversity at UCSF.</p>
<p>Projects involving UCSF and community partners that encourage children to learn about medical careers, maintain proper dental hygiene and lose weight by learning to swim were recently celebrated for improving the health and well-being of San Franciscans.</p>
<p>The newest art installation at UCSF's Parnassus campus honors its longest-lived and most venerable inhabitants. </p>
<p>More than 21,000 people converged to AT&T Park for the first annual Bay Area Science Festival, a spectacularly successful community outreach event sponsored in part by UCSF.</p>
<p>UCSF is capturing the multicultural identity of members of the University community in a new photo project called “100% You.”</p>
<p>Former UCSF medical resident and stem cell researcher Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa, MD, will return to the University to speak about his time at UCSF on October 10 as part of the University's celebration of diversity.</p>
<p>The campus community is invited to UCSF's fifth annual Health Disparities Research Symposium on Friday, Oct. 7. </p>
<p>The UCSF community is invited to celebrate the many forms of diversity of people during a celebration that begins October 3 with the annual art show and ends on November 15 with a photo exhibition.</p>
<p>The UCSF community is invited to hear JudyAnn Bigby talk about "The Massachusetts Health Reform Experience" during the Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture on September 26.</p>
<p>Incoming medical school students don white coats in an annual ritual marking the start of their education at UCSF, inspiring their professors, others with their dedication, dreams and diverse backgrounds.</p>
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann named campus leader Renee Navarro, past director of academic diversity, as the University’s first vice chancellor of diversity and outreach.
Undergraduate students from as far away as Fresno came to UCSF recently for an inside look at one of the nation’s best graduate schools.
Thanks in part to the tremendous support from the campus community, UCSF's own Stuart Gaffney and his partner, John Lewis, will be the Community Grand Marshals in the 37th Annual San Francisco LGBT Pride Parade.
A UCSF study of the migration patterns of underrepresented minority Californians in medicine found that those who attend medical schools in the state are more likely to enter residency programs in California and remain in the state to practice.