UCSF is the lead partner in the inaugural Bay Area Science Festival that will bring together an unprecedented brain trust of the region’s scientific and educational partners to produce what is expected to be one of the largest science-based events ever held in the United States.

UCSF’s Senior Vice Chancellor of Finance and Administration John Plotts issued a budget update today in an email to the campus community.

Kevin Mack, an associate professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, was killed today in a UCSF shuttle bus collision with a semi-trailer in San Francisco’s Hayes Valley.

A novel virus that spread through a California monkey colony in late 2009 also infected a human researcher and a family member, UCSF researchers have found, the first known example of an adenovirus “jumping” from one species to another and remaining contagious after the jump.