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.

Margaret Rubino, a patient care coordinator in the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, often feels stressed and emotionally drained after dealing with cancer patients day in and day out.

Grady Curry was arrested recently by the UCSF Police Department. Curry was apprehended while inside the bicycle cage of the Millberry Union Garage.

A UCSF scientist whose studies with worms suggest human life span may be extended will discuss her research on June 26 at the Mission Bay Branch Library.

UCSF welcomed 21 interns to the Department of Pediatrics High School Summer Internship Program in Biomedical and Health Sciences on Monday.

Researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center have identified the mechanism by which minocycline, a medication currently being studied for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease, protects brain and nerve cells from damage.

More than 40 Bay Area AIDS service organizations are beneficiaries of the 20th Annual AIDS Walk San Francisco on July 16.

Oncology-hematology fellow Jennifer Lauchle, MD, is being recognized for her research into treatment for acute myeloid leukemia.