Landmark California Supreme Court Decision on Same-Sex Marriage Elicits Strong UCSF Response
When the California Supreme Court overturned the state law banning same-sex marriage, the news spread quickly at UCSF.

University of California San Francisco
When the California Supreme Court overturned the state law banning same-sex marriage, the news spread quickly at UCSF.
UCSF internist and medical educator Molly Cooke has been named chair-elect of the American College of Physicians.
Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, MD, MBA, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will address the issue of childhood obesity on Wednesday, May 21, as featured speaker in the UCSF Chancellor's Health Policy Lecture Series.
UCSF Medical Center received the highest possible rating on a groundbreaking LGBT Healthcare Equality Index released yesterday.
UCSF Professor Todd Margolis is the new president of the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology.
The long-promised index to Science Café topics debuts.
To help UC cope with anticipated state budget cuts, the University is proposing to implement a new Staff and Academic Reduction in Time (START) Program.
UCSF Children's Hospital will host a Music Day to officially launch the hospital's music program through its Child Life Department.
The campus community is invited to hear Risa Lavizzo-Mourey, president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, talk about childhood obesity at UCSF on May 21.
The UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Cancer Research Alliance, an organization comprised of 12 of the nation's top cancer centers...
Nearly 300 members of the Mission Bay campus community enjoyed Cinco de Mayo festivities.
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UCSF’s Linda C. Giudice has been appointed to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Advisory Committee on Research on Women’s Health.
The Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF is celebrating 50 years of research and medical innovation today (May 7) in grand style: a science symposium and a groundbreaking ceremony for a new state-of-the art building dedicated to its work.
The UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine is hosting a free public lecture by integrative medicine pioneer Tieraona Low Dog, MD, on the role of complimentary and alternative therapies in adolescent and pediatric medicine.
The campus community is invited to do its part for a healthy environment by participating in Earth Fest activities and Bike to Work Day on May 15.
Signifying a milestone in the evolution of its pioneering stem cell program, the University of California, San Francisco today received a $34.9 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to help support the construction of a regenerative medicine building on its campus.
The UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute—known as CVRI—is leading the charge in understanding and preventing cardiovascular disease by breaking ground for a new state-of-the-art building on the UCSF Mission Bay campus.
A common weedkiller in the U.S., already suspected of causing sexual abnormalities in frogs and fish, has now been found to alter hormonal signaling in human cells, scientists from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) report.
UCSF dermatologists will offer free screenings from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 10 at the Castro-Mission Health Center in San Francisco.
The campus community is invited to celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at events scheduled for May 8 through May 21.
The public is invited to undergo free skin cancer screenings conducted by UCSF dermatologists in recognition of National Skin Cancer Awareness Month.
The campus community is invited to hear prize-winning author Anne Fadiman talk about how American health care providers can offer more sensitive and effective health care on May 7.
The campus community is invited to a 50th anniversary symposium on May 7 celebrating the past and charting the future in cardiovascular research.
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