University of California San Francisco
<p><span>The UCSF Multicultural Resource Center has opened its doors to the campus community, to promote a culture of inclusion and offer a gathering place for discussions about diversity.</span></p>
<p><span>Kathy Dracup, dean emeritus of the UCSF School of Nursing, has been named to an Institute of Medicine (IOM) ad hoc committee to conduct an independent review of the graduate medical education system and make recommendations on how to better produce a medical workforce for the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</span></p>
UCSF researchers found that poor HIV-infected individuals living in San Francisco are significantly more likely to visit emergency rooms and to have hospital stays if they lack access to food of sufficient quality and quantity for a healthy life.
<p><span>Police are investigating a robbery of a UCSF employee near the Mission Bay campus this week.</span></p>
<p>A proposed new treatment to help HIV/AIDS patients suffering from Kaposi’s sarcoma, the most common form of cancer in people with HIV, is now one step closer to becoming a reality thanks to a program that supports promising early-stage research.</p>
Kaspar Mossman works as communications director at QB3, the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences headquarters at UCSF Mission Bay.
<p>UCSF's Resource Allocation Program (RAP), which incorporates a single online application for 30 different research grants, is now requesting applications for the Fall 2012 Cycle.</p>
<p><span>The UCSF Office of Research is launching a $2 million equipment award program for technology proposals that expand and improve access to core research facilities.</span></p>