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HDFCCC Member Rena Pasick among the four recipients of this year's Chancellor Diversity Award, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award for Diversity UC San Francisco celebrates the diversity of its campus community during Diversity Month, with events held throughout the month of October. This year’s theme

At $60 million, the Discovery Fellows Program is already the largest endowed PhD education program in the history of the University of California system. The couple launched it last year with a $30 million gift, which was matched by UCSF and hundreds of individuals, most of whom gave to the

UCSF is poised at “a key inflection point” in its history and must be prepared to swing in new directions, Chancellor Sam Hawgood, MBBS, said in his inaugural State of the University speech. Hawgood addressed a packed auditorium in Cole Hall on Tuesday. The audience included nearly 80 past

Juliana Peña’s constant smile brightened the days of everyone she came across, even those who just caught a glance of her. At two-and-a-half years old, she passed away from neuroblastoma, a rare pediatric cancer. "As she was taking her last breaths, I promised Juliana that we would never stop

San Francisco’s Mission Bay district became a melting pot of celebrities, civic dignitaries, community members and assorted creatures of unknown species with dazzling outfits and daring dance moves, as the city marked the upcoming opening of the new UCSF Medical Center. Thousands joined in Saturday

Peter Walter, PhD, vividly remembers the atmosphere of "political insanity" that colored an otherwise happy youth in Cold War-era West Berlin, then a walled city that was itself encircled by the hostile territory of East Germany. "If you crossed that wall," he recalled, "you’d be shot at, and that

Peter Walter, PhD, professor of biochemistry and biophysics at UC San Francisco, has received the 2014 Lasker Basic Medical Research Award. Popularly known as the “American Nobels,” the Lasker Awards are among the most prestigious honors in science and medicine. More about Peter Walter Peter Walter