UCSF Celebrates Diversity Month with Variety of Events
The UCSF community is invited to celebrate diversity in its many forms with special events, including the 22nd Annual Faculty and Staff Art Show, which runs through October 7.

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Give to UCSFThe UCSF community is invited to celebrate diversity in its many forms with special events, including the 22nd Annual Faculty and Staff Art Show, which runs through October 7.
Katherine Flores, a family physician and director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, has been appointed a member of the new National Health Care Workforce Commission.
A diet supplemented with powdered dried plum restored bone lost by mice during the course of normal aging, in a study led by Bernard P. Halloran, PhD, at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The University of California, San Francisco, has named John D. B. Featherstone, PhD, as dean of the UCSF School of Dentistry. The appointment was approved last week by the UC Board of Regents and is retroactive to Sept. 1, 2008.
UCSF health policy expert Janet Coffman addresses some of the reasons why California is ahead of other states and the benefits of being first in health care reform.
Synuclein is a protein that can cause Parkinson’s disease, although it is not clear how. UCSF researcher Robert Edwards, MD, now has discovered that synuclein can affect signal transmission between nerve cells long before disease symptoms arise.
New UCSF Faculty, October 2010
The Chancellor’s Council on Faculty Life is again sponsoring the UCSF Faculty Leadership Collaborative, a leadership development program that offers faculty members an opportunity to network with colleagues across the University.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on September 30 announced 52 highly competitive awards for high-risk, high-payoff research for young biomedical scientists, and UCSF tops California institutions with four recipients.
UCSF will provide free flu shots to all employees, students and volunteers with UCSF identification at drop-in clinics from Monday, Oct. 4 to Monday, Nov. 1, 2010.
Sally Rankin, who completed her PhD in nursing in 1988 and joined the faculty, has been named interim dean of the UCSF School of Nursing.
Award-winning scientist David Julius picked up the prestigious Shaw Prize in Hong Kong, where he presented a lecture titled “From Peppers to Peppermints: Natural Products as Probes of the Pain Pathway.”
A particularly aggressive childhood cancer can be fought successfully with far less chemotherapy than previously believed, avoiding harmful side effects caused by cancer drugs.
UCSF employees who missed the live webcast of the town hall meeting to discuss the future of UC benefits, can now view the video online.
UCSF research-doctorate programs have ranked among the nation’s best in a survey released today by the National Research Council (NRC).
Surgical patients with known heart disease risks who are given beta blockers around the time of surgery have a significantly reduced risk of post-operative death compared with patients not given beta blockers, according to a study by researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
The UCSF School of Medicine is ranked No. 1 for the percentage of Hispanic graduate students attending the top-ranked medical school, according to <cite>Hispanic Business</cite> magazine.
The UCSF Diabetes Center symposium marks its 10th anniversary.
Researchers at UCSF have been awarded a grant from the National Institutes of Health to develop a rapid, pan-viral microarray diagnostic for detecting viruses of extreme outbreak and pandemic potential.
Renown Institute for Cancer in Reno and the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, the two leading cancer programs in their regions, have joined forces to enhance patient care and improve access to top level medical experts.
Basic physical limitations following breast cancer treatment can have far-reaching consequences that substantially affect how long a patient lives.
The U.S. Department of Justice declined to consent to the University of California’s motion to intervene in Sherley v. Sebelius, the case regarding federal funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research, on which UC had made a motion to the U.S. Federal Court of Appeals on Sept. 20.