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Source: Wallace Ravven
415-476-2557
13 October 2003
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UCSF dedicates new UCSF Mission Bay campus on Oct. 28. Press preview tours Oct. 20-24.
UCSF will dedicate its new UCSF Mission Bay Campus, the largest academic biomedical research expansion in the country, at a festive celebration on October 28.
Media are invited to develop stories in advance and cover the event. Call the UCSF News Office at 415-476-2557 to arrange. Full details follow.
DATES: OCTOBER 22-24: Press preview tours of UCSF Mission Bay (arranged on an individual basis)
OCTOBER 28: Celebration and dedication event
LOCATION: UCSF Mission Bay is located just south of Pac Bell Park, (near 16th and 3rd Streets) in San Francisco
UCSF Mission Bay is the second major campus for UCSF, and it will double the University's research and teaching space in the life sciences.
The new campus also represents a milestone for San Francisco and the development of a new neighborhood. UCSF Mission Bay is the anchor of the entire Mission Bay Project, San Francisco's largest urban development since the building of Golden Gate Park and the last remaining open parcel of land in the city. The campus is 43 acres, and the city's Mission Bay development is 303 acres.
Science is already moving full speed ahead at UCSF Mission Bay. One building is completed and serves as home to 900 faculty and staff. Another building will be completed soon. Construction will continue over the next 15 years, and at full build-out UCSF Mission Bay will have 20 structures and an expected population of 9,100.
The dedication will be a festive and colorful event with blue and gold weather balloons marking the location of future buildings, salsa music, and the sights and tastes of a street fair.
MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES FOLLOW.
PRESS PREVIEW TOURS - WEEK OF OCTOBER 20-24
Individual preview tours for media will be arranged. Preview tours will provide in-depth access to scientists, laboratories, and campus leadership not available at the October 28 dedication event and extended time for overview photography and video.
Story or package elements available: ?Interviews with scientists about research projects at UCSF Mission Bay, such as zeroing in on the genes that control aging, colorful computer-aided techniques to identify precise sites of drug action, identifying the genes that literally bring the heart together. ?Interviews with UCSF Executive Vice Chancellor Reg Kelly, other campus leaders ?Photos and video of labs, building architecture, specially commissioned artworks, and the overall campus from strategic vantage points.
DEDICATION EVENT - OCTOBER 28 2:00 to 3:30 PM This festive event is for the UCSF community. More than 400 faculty, staff, and invited friends are expected to join the celebration. Festivities will kick-off with a salsa band and food vendors at Koret Quad, a 3.2-acre green at the center of the new UCSF Mission Bay Campus.
RESEARCH "SHOW AND TELL" BY SCIENTISTS: · Visits to labs and informal presentations by scientists about their research. ARCHITECTURAL VISION OF MISSION BAY: · A slide presentation by Steve Wiesenthal, UCSF campus architect.
4:00 to 5:00 PM DEDICATION CEREMONY: · Dedication ceremony led by UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop · Announcement of a major gift, the largest single gift from an individual in UCSF history. · S.F. Mayor Willie Brown will participate; other state and national elected officials expected to attend. · 14 blue and gold weather balloons will float skyward, moored on 40-foot tethers to mark the location of each UCSF Mission Bay campus building under development - providing a colorful and dramatic overview of how rapidly the campus is growing. · Koret Quad will be officially opened with the unveiling of a pyramid sculpture.
7:00-7:30 PM UCSF FOUNDATION ANNUAL MEETING AND DINNER: · Media are invited to shoot photos and video at this event, which will take place in a special tent set up at the UCSF Mission Bay site. The event acknowledges donors who have given collectively $230 million to date to make UCSF Mission Bay possible.
For more information and to arrange preview tours of UCSF Mission Bay call UCSF News Services at 415-476-2557.
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