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New Center Focuses on Women's Health and Empowerment on Global Scale
UCSF’s Phil Darney is co-leading a new Center of Expertise on Women’s Health and Empowerment that will tackle global health issues such as violence against women and reproductive health and rights.
Master's Student Chosen for Prestigious Policy Fellowship
UCSF School of Nursing master’s student Alfredo Mireles was selected for a prestigious, 11-month fellowship with the California state government.
Memories may be formed throughout the day, not just while sleeping
Scientists have long thought that processes occurring during sleep were responsible for cementing the salient experiences of the day into long-term memories. Now, however, a study of scampering rats suggests that the mechanisms at work during sleep are also active while the animals are awake -- and that they encode events more accurately.
The Pritzker Center at UCSF Launched
UCSF has announced that a $25 million donation, one of the largest ever given to an American university for child and adolescent mental health services, will jump-start the creation of a comprehensive program dedicated to improving the emotional well-being of Bay Area youths, regardless of socioeconomic status.
Sleep in early life may play crucial role in brain development
University of California, San Francisco researchers are reporting direct evidence that sleep in early life may play a crucial role in brain development.
UCSF’s Stanley Prusiner Named to Receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, 55, today was named to receive the 1997 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering and characterizing an entirely new class of proteins, called prions, which cause several rare and fatal neurodegenerative diseases.