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One year after UCSF students launched a national movement to highlight highlight racial disparities in education, health care and civic justice, they gathered again to meet a new challenge for the movement: turn words into actions.
This fall, UCSF welcomes nearly 1,000 new students. Check out an infographic highlighting some fun facts about this new crop of future clinicians and researchers.
The UCSF School of Medicine welcomed 153 new students to the class of 2019 with a very different kind of orientation, focused on communication and racial bias.
The Perry Initiative, a nonprofit founded in 2009 by Lisa Lattanza and Jenni Buckley, aims to tackle gender imbalance in engineering and orthopaedics by providing bioengineering workshops for high school students.
UCSF has one of the nation's longest-running programs to encourage master’s level public health minority students to continue on to doctoral degrees and cancer disparities research careers.
UCSF leadership released a statement in response to recent events in Ferguson and New York City, which have brought national attention to long-felt issues surrounding systemic inequalities that disproportionally impact underrepresented minorities, particularly black men.
What if the Supreme Court had ruled this past week that states have the constitutional right to require that their public universities consider only SAT scores when making admissions decisions?
UCSF is welcoming more than 800 new students this fall in its schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing and pharmacy, as well as its Graduate Division. Here are some interesting facts about this diverse incoming class.
UCSF is requesting nominations for the Chancellor Diversity Awards highlighting the contributions individuals make in the advancement of disability service, diversity, GLBT leadership and women.
The Last Lecture belongs to a venerable academic tradition designed to answer a single question: “If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?”
By providing scientifically based curriculum at after-school programs, UCSF helps kids learn how to manage their anger while excelling on the field and in the classroom.
<p>Providing a collaborative and inviting environment for international scholars has been a priority for UCSF, which in 2010 had more international students and postdocs than any other U.S. health sciences university with a total of 1,267.</p>
<p>Exemplary community collaborations that promote health equity in San Francisco took center stage at the Fourth Annual Partnerships Celebration sponsored by UCSF’s <a href="http://partnerships.ucsf.edu/">University Community Partnerships</a> (UCP).</p>
<p>To increase awareness about the "coming out" process, members of UCSF’s LGBTQ community created an “It Gets Better” video to commemorate National Coming Out Day on October 11.</p>
<p>A UCSF support program for first-generation college students launched in 2008 with a small, monthly discussion group and has evolved into the newly formed First Generation College Student Initiative, which will expand services and resources to this "invisible community."</p>
<p>A good job in health care was the key to a better life for Shameka Jones, but the path to getting one hasn’t been easy.</p>
<p>More than 21,000 people converged to AT&T Park for the first annual Bay Area Science Festival, a spectacularly successful community outreach event sponsored in part by UCSF.</p>
Undergraduate students from as far away as Fresno came to UCSF recently for an inside look at one of the nation’s best graduate schools.