The Bay Area Science Festival capped its third annual run with Discovery Day at AT&T Park, where families navigated virtual reality, met robots and built Lego microscopes.

President Barack Obama is looking for a few promising young leaders to serve in The White House Fellowship program for leadership and public service.

When it comes to genes, a UCSF scientist wants to turn conventional wisdom about human and bacterial evolution on its head.

UCSF has been awarded one of three Cooperative Agreements from the U.S. Bureau of the Health Professions to establish the UCSF Health Workforce Research Center.

David Baltimore, PhD, will present the 2013 Gladstone Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The lecture, titled, “The Role of MicroRNAs in Immune Functions,” will begin at 4 p.m. in Gladstone’s Robert Mahley Auditorium.

Dean Schillinger, MD, a professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, has been awarded the 2013 Everett M. Rogers Public Health Communication Award by the American Public Health Association.

Individuals, teams and entire departments saw UCSF2025 as a chance to make their voices heard and secure a role in shaping the UCSF vision. It also managed to tap into some good ol’ competitive spirit.

For two days in September, UCSF faculty, staff, students and others opined around the clock in an online game designed to answer this question: “What if you could map the future of UCSF in just 36 hours?”

The United States faces a severe shortage of primary health care providers. In a series of papers published in Health Affairs, UCSF researchers advocated a number of potential solutions to the problem.

UC San Francisco today is launching Inside UCSF, a web portal designed specifically to inform, inspire and engage the internal community.