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.

UCSF will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Millberry Union, the center of campus life at the flagship Parnassus campus, with festivities which begin today.

Fred Cohen, Allison Doupe, Stephen G. Lisberger and Louis J. Ptáček have been elected to the new class of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Kenneth (Ken) Dill, Phd, a national leader in research to clarify and predict the physical properties of proteins and other biological molecules, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the Academy announced Tuesday.

Robert W. Sweetow, director of audiology at UCSF since 1991, recently received the 2008 Distinguished Achievement Award from the American Academy of Audiology.

We’ve been running our Science Café reader survey for a while now and the responses, although still fewer than 50, are revealing. Biggest complaint: Where are the transcripts?