During December and throughout 2011, members of the UCSF community can participate in events and activities that can improve their health and well being.

Leading UCSF faculty are featured in videos on the iBioSeminars website, which brings the world’s best biology in seminars to people around the world.

A team of UCSF researchers has engineered E. coli with the key molecular circuitry that will enable genetic engineers to program cells to communicate and perform computations.

David Vlahov, who has been named the new dean of the century-old UCSF School of Nursing, “brings an exciting combination of community-based research and intervention to UCSF.”

UCSF will host town hall meetings this month to discuss its new partnerships with Pfizer Inc. and is seeking proposals for funding for projects by February 2011.

Five dancers from the San Francisco Ballet volunteered to come to the children’s hospital on their day off, performing an abridged version of the “Nutcracker.”

David Vlahov, PhD, RN, a pioneer in urban health research, expert in global health epidemiology and highly prolific author, has been appointed the new dean of the UCSF School of Nursing, one of the nation’s preeminent graduate schools.