Funding from the Amgen Foundation will enable undergraduates to gain critical hands-on experience with UCSF faculty members to help advance the next generation of scientists.

A UCSF employee since 1986, Victoria Kleemann directs Volunteer Services for UCSF Medical Center and UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital.

Dan Henroid directs Nutrition and Food Services at UCSF Medical Center, which provides more than 3 million meals annually.

Sarah Paris is the director of communications for the UCSF School of Medicine, the largest school at the University.

Susan Hyde, an award-winning professor and scientist with the UCSF School of Dentistry, promotes practices that preserve oral health and quality of life for both patients and practitioners.

Following recent media reports about a letter by 36 University of California executives regarding pension benefits, UC Board of Regents Chairman Russell Gould and University President Mark Yudof issued a statement on January 4. The statement is posted on the UC website.

Parkinson’s disease researcher Robert Nussbaum, a human geneticist and neuroscientist at UCSF, has been named to receive the prestigious Klaus Joachim Zülch Neuroscience Prize for 2011.

The campus community is invited to view 30 photographs on display on January 6 at the Faculty Alumni House and vote on the top three.