Those interested in serving on a committee to organize UCSF’s participation in the AIDS Walk are encouraged to contact the Public Affairs department.

A fund has been established to benefit the widow and children of Luis “Al” Solari, who was killed in a road-rage incident in early April.

UCSF Medical Center is offering free screening for oral, head and neck cancer tomorrow at Mount Zion.

When the eye tracks a bird's flight across the sky, the visual experience is normally smooth, without interruption. But underlying this behavior is a complex coordination of neurons that has remained mysterious to scientists.

UCSF marked a milestone this week with the 500th procedure in its Thoracic Transplant Program, which specializes in transplantation of the heart and lung.

The campus community is invited to a daylong symposium on May 16 honoring Carroll Estes, a highly acclaimed scholar in the field of aging.

Chancellor Mike Bishop has appointed a committee to look at UCSF’s effect on the environment and coordinate earth-friendly actions across campus.

Sorry to tease you with that headline. We all know that no such animal as a presidential science adviser exists in the US, a sad fact that David Baltimore and Ahmed Zewail mentioned prominently in their April 17, 2008, Wall Street Journal editorial, “We Need a Science White House.”

A computer-based interactive risk assessment and risk reduction counseling program using a video doctor sharply reduces sexual and drug risk behaviors by HIV-positive patients, according to UCSF researchers who developed and tested the intervention.