Wednesday, December 5, 2007

inSites: What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007

Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF - from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Café conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide™, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here’s a handy index of the content we brought you in November on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.

Feature Stories - The Big Picture on the UCSF.edu Homepage

       

A Bug in Our Blood: A Conversation with UCSF Health Economist Leslie Wilson 
Every two seconds, someone in America needs a blood transfusion. School of Pharmacy health economist Leslie Wilson knows what it costs to keep our blood supply safe…

       

From High School to International Triumph 
After a summer at UCSF working on their own genetic engineering project, six students just out of high school and one undergraduate have just taken one of the top honors in an international competition among universities as familiar as Caltech and distant as Peking University…

       

UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center Name Becomes Official  
During a special ceremony on November 19, UCSF’s cancer center was renamed the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, in tribute to the family’s commitment to improving lives around the world and their trust in UCSF’s ability to rapidly translate cancer discoveries into compassionate care…

       

Speaker Pelosi Meets with UCSF Researchers at the SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center  
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi addressed a crowd of researchers, reporters, staff and veterans at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC) on Nov. 12 in observation of Veterans Day…

       

Family Trees: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist Esteban Burchard 
Knowing who you really are is more than a psychological imperative. Just as our genes influence our overall health, our particular ethnicity can make us more or less susceptible to different diseases and to the drugs designed to treat them. Just ask Esteban Burchard, MD who studies asthma risk in Latinos…

       

UCSF Faculty Coach Vietnamese Medical Education Leaders to Reform Curriculum Using Evidence-Based Medicine, Problem-Based Learning 
In 2003, UCSF’s Bixby Center formed an ongoing partnership with Vietnamese medical schools to promote medical education reform. Recently, a group of Vietnamese doctors, professors and medical school administrators met with UCSF faculty to learn how evidence-based medicine and problem-based learning methods used in the US might be applied to Vietnamese medical education…

News Center - News and Research for the Global UCSF Community

 
• • UCSF   honors William J. Rutter via symposium on medicine and high tech
  
  
 
• • UCSF   professor receives top award in nurse leadership in aging
  
  
 
• • UCSF   symposium on medicine and high tech to honor William J. Rutter
  
  
 
• • UCSF   renames Cancer Center as tribute to Bay Area philanthropist Helen Diller
  
  
 
• • Yamanaka   Reports Additional Success in Reprogramming Human Adult Cells into Embryonic-like   Stem Cells
  
  
 
• • UCSF’s   Kenyon One of Ten Honored with 2008 AARP The Magazine Inspire Award
  
  
 
• • Cigarettes   Add to Alcohol Damage in Brains of HIV-Infected People
  
  
 
• • Steven   Beckwith Named UC VP for Research
    UC Newsroom
  
  
 
• • Shinya   Yamanaka Reprograms Human Adult Cells into Embryonic-like Stem Cells
  
   
 
• • Latinos,   Blacks Might Survive Longer with Alzheimer’s, Study Suggests
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Hosts Exhibit on Historic Tobacco Advertising
  
  
 
• • Nicotine   addiction slashed in test of new cigarette smoking strategy
  
  
 
• • Cellular   response to stress signals predicts future tumor formation in women diagnosed   with common type of pre-breast cancer
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Addresses Concerns Following Sexual Assault on Mission Bay Campus
  
  
 
• • New   HIV vaccine target could solve mutation problem
  
  
 
• • Brains   of term infants with heart disease resemble those of preemies
  
  
 
• • Studies   Show Importance of Language Services on Reducing Disparities, Increasing Quality   of Patient Care
  
  
 
• • New   HIV vaccine target could solve mutation problem
  
  
 
• • New   standards address social services for patients living with cancer
  
  
 
• • Health   care trio forges partnership to improve breast cancer care in Marin
  
  
 
• • Patients   Prefer Simplified Advance Directive over Standard Form
  
  
 
• • UCSF’s OLLI Courses Focus on Stress and Nutrition
  
  
 
• • UCSF Medical   Center to Offer Free Screening for Hepatitis B
  
  
 
• • NIH   doubles support for vital HIV/AIDS research center
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Student Wins Competition for Invention of Instrument that Measures Pain Levels
  
  

UCSF Today - Campus News and Events

 
• • UCSF   Exhibits X-Ray Project Depicting Human Toll of Terrorism
  
  
 
• • Staff   Advisors to Regents to Talk About their Role
  
  
 
• • Registration   Begins for Emergency Response Training at UCSF
  
  
 
• • Supervisor   Maxwell Tours Children’s Hospital, Reviews Plans for New Medical Center   at Mission Bay
  
  
 
• • Renowned   Environmental Health Expert to Speak About Secret War on Cancer
  
  
 
• • UCSF   to Honor Rutter with Symposium on November 29
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Cancer Center Gets New Name Today
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Names Callaham as Chair of New Department of Emergency Medicine
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Kicks Off Medical Humanities Series Focusing on Medicine, Music and Creativity
  
  
 
• • Campus   Vending Machines Offer a Smarter Way to Snack
  
  
 
• • UCSF   to Host Inaugural Faculty Development Lecture on Leadership
  
  
 
• • Speaker   Pelosi Meets with UCSF Researchers at the SF Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  
  
 
• • Kerner   Receives France’s Légion d’Honneur from President Nicolas   Sarkozy
  
  
 
• • People   Intimately Affected by Iraq War to Share Stories on Thursday
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Leaders to Give Progress Report on Nov. 20 on Nurturing Diversity
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Addresses Concerns Following Sexual Assault on Mission Bay Campus
  
  
 
• • UCSF   to Provide Support During National Survivors of Suicide Day
  
  
 
• • NIH   Awards UCSF Grant for Cooperative Centers Program in Reproduction and Infertility   Research
  
  
 
• • UC   Provost Hume Urges Students to Excel Through Research and Service
  
  
 
• • Mayor   Delivers Upbeat State of San Francisco Address
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Launches Resource Allocation Program (RAP)
  
  
 
• • UCSF’s   OLLI Courses Focus on Stress and Nutrition
  
  
• • Police Report Sexual Assault at Mission Bay Housing
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Welcomes Director of Reproductive Health and the Environment
  
  
 
• • UCSF   Pursues Stronger Partnership with San Francisco Unified School District
  
  

Science Café - Weekly Conversations About the Culture, Conduct
  and Community of Science

• • Nov 30, A Bug in Our Blood: A Conversation with   UCSF Health Economist Leslie Wilson ( Read   it | Hear   it )
• • Nov 16, Health in the Time of Poison: A Conversation   with Reproductive Health Expert Tracey Woodruff, PhD ( Read   it | Hear   it )
• • Nov 9, Family Trees: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist   Esteban Burchard ( Read   it | Hear   it )
• • Nov 2, Ideas Make Good Presents ( Read   it | Hear   it )
• • Subscribe   to the Science Café podcast in iTunes
 
• • Subscribe   to the Science Café podcast and feed in your preferred newsreader

UCSF People / UCSF Blogs - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students in Their
  Own Words

• • Meet   New UCSF Faculty
  
  
• • I   Was a Neuroscience Guinea Pig: How Scientists Scrambled My Brain
    WIRED

inSites - Highlighting Stories from UCSF and Other UCSF Websites

 
• • The   Many Faces of Trauma Care
    (UCSF School of Medicine)
 
• • What’s   on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for November 2007
  
  

Spotlight / Multimedia - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students “on
  the Air”

 
• Pioneer   in Asian American Mental Health Visits UCSF During Diversity Celebration
  
  
 
• Health   Care Disparities Research Showcased During UCSF Annual Diversity Celebration
  
  
 
• UCSF   Science Café 54: A Conversation with Leslie Wilson
  
  
 
• UCSF   Science Café 53: A Conversation with Tracey Woodruff, PhD
  
  
 
• UCSF   Science Café 52: A Conversation with Physician-Scientist Esteban Burchard
  
  

FYI… UCSF in the News - Daily summary of news stories that highlight
  UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University

                                               

• November     27	• November     26	• November     20	• November     16
• November     15	• November     14	• November     13	• November     12
• November     8	• November     7	• November     6	• November     6
• November     5	• November     2	• November     1

 

 

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