Watkins to Assume Leadership Role at UC Riverside
At the university, Watkins will oversee seven different schools and colleges and be responsible for shaping and implementing the University’s vision for the future.
University of California San Francisco
Give to UCSFAt the university, Watkins will oversee seven different schools and colleges and be responsible for shaping and implementing the University’s vision for the future.
Cardiologist Nisha Parikh, MD, MPH, discusses what we know so far about COVID-19’s impact on the body’s cardiovascular system, from affecting the heart’s rhythm to impairing its ability to pump blood throughout the body.
California’s Black and Hispanic communities may be falling further behind whites in the quality of care they receive for heart attacks, despite recent medical efforts aimed at improving the standards of care for these populations, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco.
The UCSF Safety Task Force has made nine recommendations on how UCSF can improve upon its policies and practices.
President Michael V. Drake has announced a new presidential policy to ensure that all individuals are identified by their accurate gender identity and lived or preferred name on university-issued documents and in UC’s information systems.
UCSF scientists have developed a single clinical laboratory test capable of zeroing in on the microbial miscreant afflicting a patient in as little as six hours.
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris have announced the establishment of a coronavirus advisory board, a panel of public health and scientific experts that will include three UCSF faculty members.
UC San Francisco is notifying individuals about a cybersecurity incident that may have impacted their personal information.
In his seventh annual State of the University address, Chancellor Sam Hawgood highlighted the extraordinary response of UCSF’s frontline care workers, researchers, educators, learners, and staff to the COVID-19 pandemic and the University’s renewed commitment to combatting systemic racism.
UCSF: The Campaign garnered nearly $525 million in donations to support professional students at UCSF, as well as those pursuing careers in biomedical research through the University’s doctoral programs.
Former UCSF Chancellor and Professor Emeritus of Social Medicine Philip Randolph Lee, MD, a visionary leader in health policy research and advocate for social justice, has died at 96.
The multi-year fundraising initiative publicly launched in October 2017.
The COVID-19 crisis inside jails and prisons has laid bare the public health emergency created by mass incarceration in this country. UCSF experts say the health care system has an important role to play in helping to attenuate these harms.
Now in their seventh year, the Best Global Universities rankings focus on schools’ academic research and reputation overall instead of specific undergraduate and graduate programs. These global rankings help the increasing number of students exploring international higher education options to more accurately compare institutions around the world.
The 10th annual Bay Area Science Festival, Northern California’s largest free educational event, is going virtual in 2020 with more than 125 all-ages experiences you can access from your home.
UCSF has selected a historic preservation firm for the delicate task of relocating a series of 10 New Deal-era murals from a seismically vulnerable building on the University’s Parnassus Heights campus.
A free testing campaign at the Fruitvale BART station found an overall PCR-positivity rate — indicating active infection — of 3.5 percent, but the infection rate was considerably higher in Latinx (5.2 percent) and Maya individuals (8 percent).
Although Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders comprise more than 6% of the U.S. population, they are among the least represented groups in health sciences research.
The number of primary Spanish-speaking Latinx families in the San Francisco Bay Area who cannot afford to eat balanced meals and go to bed hungry has more than doubled since the pandemic, according to a new study by UCSF.
UC San Francisco’s Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI), Fortanix, Intel, and Microsoft Azure have formed a collaboration to establish a confidential computing platform with privacy-preserving
UCSF schools have created new courses and expanded existing curriculum that address issues of structural racism in science and health care. They take an explicitly anti-racist approach, which advocates for interventions against racism instead of merely being not racist.
As the thousands of students head back to UCSF this fall, educators across campus have had to balance innovative distance learning opportunities with safely bringing learners back together for experiences that must take place in simulation labs, clinical settings, research labs, and more.
Students, faculty and staff at UCSF will be invited to activate COVID Notify on their smartphones.
UCSF talked with Cheryl and Robynn Cox, who are sixth-generation descendants of Biddy Mason, about the legacy of their great-great-great-great grandmother.