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UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann will introduce a four-year, $100 million education fundraising initiative during a commencement address on April 24. This campuswide goal includes $80 million in new scholarships and fellowships, and $20 million in support of curriculum innovation, interprofessional education, and teaching facilities.
<p>In an event that celebrated the energy, creativity and innovation of the Bay Area, UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann and three other Bay Area leaders were honored on April 18, each receiving the Commonwealth Club of California’s 2012 Distinguished Citizen Award.</p>
<p>Keeping her eyes on the strawberry fields of central California, the bustling diesel truck routes in Oakland, and the stubborn toxic soils of the former Naval ship yards at San Francisco’s Bayview-Hunter’s Point, UCSF Associate Professor Gina Solomon, MD, MPH will soon have a new vantage point — the state capitol.</p>
<p>For the first time, UCSF is hosting a campuswide alumni reunion this weekend that will unite all four professional schools (dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy) and the Graduate Division.</p>
In honor of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month, the UCSF Department of Dermatology is offering free skin cancer screenings. The event is co-sponsored by Assemblyman Tom Ammiano, and San Francisco Supervisor Christina Olague.
<p>The UCSF Police Department would like to inform members of the UCSF community that April 21 through April 29, 2012, has been designated as World Laboratory Animal Liberation Week. </p>
Scientists at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes announced a research breakthrough in mice that one day may help doctors restore hearts damaged by heart attacks — by converting scar-forming cardiac cells into beating heart muscle.
<p>The UC Global Health Institute has received one of five, $4 million grants from the Fogarty International Center to support 50 to 60 new fellows in global health research over the next five years, starting September 2012.</p>
<p>The longstanding mystery of how selective hearing works — how people can tune in to a single speaker while tuning out their crowded, noisy environs — is solved this week in the journal <em>Nature</em> by two scientists from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).</p>