UCSF Celebrates Diversity Month 2015
UCSF celebrates the diversity of its campus community during Diversity Month, with events held throughout the month of October.
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Give to UCSFUCSF celebrates the diversity of its campus community during Diversity Month, with events held throughout the month of October.
A newly established neuroscience research institute based at UCSF will focus on gaining a deeper understanding of plasticity, the brain’s remarkable capacity to modify its own structure and function.
This fall, UCSF welcomes nearly 1,000 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
The UCSF School of Medicine welcomed 153 new students to the class of 2019 with a very different kind of orientation, focused on communication and racial bias.
The UCSF Clinical Research Center at Parnassus opened its doors on Aug. 10, providing investigators with 2,500 square feet of new adult outpatient clinical research space.
A new UCSF study reveals that question format may determine how well personal identity corresponds with genetics.
UCSF's Resource Allocation Program (RAP), which offers a single online application process for a wide variety of intramural grant offerings, is now inviting applications for the Fall 2015 cycle.
A systemwide task force of UC faculty, staff and administrators will develop a new set of retirement benefits options for UC employees hired on or after July 1, 2016 to comply with a new budget agreement.
UCSF medical students were recognized this week with a “Hero Award" from the San Francisco Human Rights Commission for their efforts to advance civil rights by launching the national White Coats for Black Lives movement.
The Perry Initiative, a nonprofit founded in 2009 by Lisa Lattanza and Jenni Buckley, aims to tackle gender imbalance in engineering and orthopaedics by providing bioengineering workshops for high school students.
Two demonstration projects that aim to yield quick results for patients have been selected by the new California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine, a public-private effort launched by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.
Judith Hellman has won the 2015 Frontiers in Anesthesia Research Award to explore novel ways of understanding and combating sepsis.
UCSF Chancellor Sam Hawgood last week presented a plan to a UC Regents committee to invest in four projects that are critical to achieving the University’s overall capital strategy.
UCSF has one of the nation's longest-running programs to encourage master’s level public health minority students to continue on to doctoral degrees and cancer disparities research careers.
Researchers Gail Martin and Allan Balmain are UCSF's newest members of the Royal Society.
Faculty members Eliseo Pérez-Stable and Zena Werb were honored with the Lifetime Achievement in Mentoring Award.
Women who use feminine care products called douches may increase their exposure to harmful chemicals called phthalates.
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco have been named one of HealthCare’s Most Wired™ for 2015, in recognition of the focus on security and patient engagement through information technology.
Edward F. Chang, a UCSF physician-scientist whose seminal research has provided deep insights into how speech and language are processed in the human brain, has been named the 2015 Blavatnik Laureate in the Life Sciences.
Marcel Alavi and his fellow memoirs of the UCSF Pride Committee worked together with the UCSF LGBT Resource Center to create a visible presence for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, & transgender (LGBT) campus and medical center community by marching in the 2015 SF Pride Celebration.
UC enacts measures to ensure campus environments are inclusive for LGBT students, faculty and staff.
Annual awards recognize the many accomplishments of individuals and teams at UCSF around sustainability.
UCSF researchers have launched the first longitudinal cohort study to better understand the health of LGBTQ adults in the United States.
Matthew R. Cooperberg, MD, MPH, is the 2015 recipient of the American Urological Association (AUA) “Gold Cystoscope” award
Tejal A. Desai, PhD, professor and chair of the Department of Bioengineering & Therapeutic Sciences, was awarded the 2015 Brown Engineering Alumni Medal (BEAM) from Brown University’s School of Engineering.
UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals have been awarded an environmental achievement award from Practice Greenhealth, a leading health care nonprofit organization focused on positive environmental stewardship.
A new agreement between UC President Janet Napolitano and Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown provides UC with the promise of fiscal security over the next four years.
UCSF won two international awards from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), including a “Grand Gold,” the organization’s highest honor.
UCSF's Alan Ashworth, PhD, has received an award from a cancer nonprofit organization for his “significant contributions to research, advocacy, clinical care, education, awareness, or support of hereditary cancer.”
The Alumni Association of UCSF has appointed Harvey A. Brody, DDS '63, to serve as alumni regent-designate to the UC Board of Regents, effective July 1.