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Source: Wallace Ravven
415-476-2557
27 October 2003
UCSF to dedicate Mission Bay campus at festive event October 28
UCSF will officially launch its new UCSF Mission Bay Campus with a festive celebration and dedication ceremony on Tuesday, October 28.
More than 400 faculty, staff, and invited friends are expected to join UCSF leadership at this special event.
Highlights include a dedication ceremony hosted by Chancellor J. Michael Bishop, announcement of the largest contribution from individual donors in UCSF history, a look at the future campus via a dramatic display of weather balloons marking all building locations, and presentations by scientists.
Media are invited cover. Interviews with campus leadership and scientists available.
DATE: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 LOCATION: UCSF Mission Bay is located just south of Pac Bell Park, near 16th and 3rd Streets in San Francisco TIME: 2:00 to 4:30 PM (Celebration and Dedication) 7:00 to 7:30 PM (Annual Meeting and Dinner)
HIGHLIGHTS AND PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES:
2:00 to 4:00 PM
* Sights and sounds of a street fair (salsa band and food carts) * "Evolution and Architectural Vision of UCSF Mission Bay," presented by Steve Wiesenthal, campus architect and associate vice chancellor for capital projects * "Building Community Partnerships That Work," presented by Lisa Gray, UCSF Community and Governmental Relations * Research "show and tell" by scientists: --"Studying Addiction in Fruit Flies," by Ulrike Heberlein, PhD, anatomy --"Identifying Causes and Discovering Treatments for Common Lung Diseases," by Dean Sheppard, MD, UCSF Lung Biology Center --"Genes, Behavior and the Sense of Smell," by Cori Bargmann, PhD, anatomy --"Pharmacogenetics: How Genes Affect the Way People Respond to Medicine," by Maya Leabman, PhD, post-doctoral fellow.
4:00 to 4:30 PM
* Dedication ceremony led by UCSF Chancellor J. Michael Bishop * Announcement of the largest contribution from individual donors in UCSF history. * San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown and other elected officials expected to participate. * Dramatic and colorful release of weather balloons: 14 blue and gold weather balloons will be moored on 40-foot tethers to mark the location of each campus building. * Unveiling of a pyramid sculpture to mark the official opening of Koret Quad, a 3.2-acre green at the center of the new UCSF Mission Bay. * Unveiling of a dedication paver with the date of the event. * Performance by Touch of Class Choir from San Francisco's Phillip and Sala Burton Academic High School
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.
PARKING: Reporters and photographers covering the event should check-in at the parking kiosk for directions to the media parking area. Parking lot entrance is on 16th Street, west of 3rd Street.
UCSF Mission Bay--a 43-acre health sciences campus that is changing San Francisco urban landscape and moving biomedical research in new directions--is the centerpiece of the city's 303-acre Mission Bay development project.
For more information call UCSF News Services at 415-476-2557
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