The apparent suicide of UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Denice Denton, PhD, last Saturday has stunned top University of California leaders, who have termed her passing a personal and professional loss.

More than 100 people, including bone marrow transplant recipients and their families, gathered recently to celebrate life at the first major reunion in more than 20 years.

The American Medical Association (AMA) Foundation recently named second-year UCSF medical student Sergio Hernandez a minority scholar.

Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center are beginning a study to evaluate effectiveness of a medication that could make treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) quicker and longer-lasting and leave patients less suject to relapse.

UCSF is exhibiting works by American artist Robert Arneson and nine of his former students at the Kalmanovitz Library through December 16.

Majid Seraj, a 1996 UCSF School of Pharmacy graduate born in Afghanistan, carried the UCSF name into this school room for fifth-grade girls on Afghanistan's Bagram Air Base, where he was teaching English as a volunteer.

A recent study gives credence to the idea that the sanitized Western world may be suffering from high rates of asthma, eczema and allergy because human immune systems need to be challenged by disease and dirt.

Smokers will have only two designated areas for smoking — one on Parnassus and the other at Mount Zion — when UCSF strengthens its no-smoking policy effective July 1.

The campus community is invited to the ceremony honoring this year's recipients of the Chancellor's Award for GLBT Leadership on Monday.

From Uganda to Costa Rica and from Thailand to Tanzania, UCSF students, teachers and scientists are involved in hundreds of outreach projects related to the understanding and prevention of disease and to advancing health worldwide.