All faculty members are invited to participate in welcoming activities and learn more about the University this September.

Just a few weeks ago, they were finishing high school. Today, they're trying to reprogram the "molecular bar code" that distinguishes one part in a cell from another. Six pre-college students and one undergraduate are working with UCSF graduate student and postdoc mentors to fashion a new kind of organelle inside a living cell.

UCTV programming will air nightly from 8 p.m. until 11 p.m. on EATV2, the educational access channel recently launched by City College of San Francisco.

UCSF postdoctoral scholars Thomas M. Huckaba, PhD, and Melissa R. Junttila, PhD, have been named among 18 new Damon Runyan Fellows by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation at the Foundation's May 2007 Scientific Advisory Committee review. Recipients of the prestigious, three-year award are outstanding postdoctoral scientists conducting basic and translational cancer research in the laboratories of leading senior investigators across the country.

Suspect Robert Dentley was arrested during the commission of an auto burglary at the Millberry Union garage on July 24.

UCSF Children's Hospital will hold a special reunion picnic for children--from infants to teens--who are transplant patients.

Molly Cooke, MD, FACP, has been elected to a four-year term as a Member-at-Large of the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME).