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Give to UCSFClothing, small electronics and gift cards are sought by December 18 for a holiday gift drive to benefit at-risk and HIV-positive youth.
UCSF granted honorary degrees to 67 former students – three of whom happily accepted their diplomas in person on Friday – after their studies ended abruptly when they were sent to Japanese internment camps during World War II.
Molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn joined Nobel laureates in Stockholm to discuss their discoveries and what their ongoing research tells us about health, cancer and aging.
When UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD, was named one of three recipients of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine on Oct. 5, the seemingly endless stream of well-wishers included not only friends, relatives and colleagues, but also several prominent political figures.
UC restored some justice on Friday when former students of Japanese ancestry received honorary degrees after being forced to leave college to enter internment camps during World War II.
The UCSF community will have several opportunities to share in the excitement of the Nobel Prize festivities, which begin on Monday with a lecture by UCSF’s newest Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn. Read more on the <a href="http://www.ucsf.edu/nobel/2009/blackburn/ucsf-to-follow-blackburn-during-nobel-week-2009/">UCSF Nobel website</a>.
UCSF and UC Berkeley are mulling the idea of offering a first-of-its-kind joint degree program in translational medicine — an idea proposed by former Intel CEO Andy Grove.
Leaders from both inside and outside the University discussed strategies for weathering the budget crisis and preserving academic and research excellence recently.
A new set of recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says cervical cancer screening can start later and occur less frequently for most women.
UCSF Chancellor Sue Desmond-Hellmann shared some lessons learned over her lifetime during a recent meeting with senior women leaders.
UCSF Chancellor Susan Desmond-Hellmann, MD, MPH, will award honorary degrees to 68 former students who were interned in the United States during World War II due to their Japanese heritage. UCSF is the first public university in California to provide such degrees to former students, many of whom will be honored posthumously. Three other UC ceremonies will follow during annual commencement ceremonies on the Davis, Berkeley, and Los Angeles campuses.
Scientist pinpoints chimpanzee origin of HIV during Merle Sande Memorial Lecture.
The campus community is invited on December 1 to attend a symposium and screening of a short film documenting San Francisco’s leading role in responding to the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
The November 30, 2009 Merle Sande Memorial Lecture: “The Prehistory of HIV-1: Understanding the Primate Roots of Human AIDS" and the December 1, 2009 “Minority Stress Theory, Findings and Implications for HIV/AIDS Prevention with Racial/Ethnic Minority Gay and Bisexual Men” lecture.
The 20th annual Macy’s Tree Lighting Ceremony, benefiting UCSF Children’s Hospital. Macy’s partners with UCSF each year to raise funds for the UCSF Children’s Hospital palliative care program – Compass Care – which provides essential medical care and emotional support for families whose children have life-threatening illnesses. Over the last six years, more than $800,000 has been raised through sponsoring lights that adorn Macy’s gift to the city, an 85-foot-tall Shasta Fir tree.
UCSF studies of frontotemporal dementia may shed light on Thanksgiving and year-round overeating.
A series of three short films depicts how UCSF is advancing health in India by addressing three of its major health concerns: HIV/AIDS, tobacco use and eye diseases.
The 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to UCSF’s Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD – along with Carol Greider, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Jack Szostak, PhD, of Massachusetts General Hospital – recognizes the importance of the most fundamental kind of basic biological science.
Activists, scientists and administrators convene to discuss research on the role of environmental chemicals in breast cancer.
The UCSF community is invited to attend a town hall meeting on December 4 to hear an update on the UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay project.
UCSF scientists have shown for the first time that the rigidity of a tissue can induce cancer. The research team identified an enzyme that is crucial for regulating tissue stiffness and demonstrated that the enzyme can turn abnormal but non-malignant breast tissue into tumors, according to a study published in “Cell” online.