First Appeared Tuesday, 06 May '08

inSites: What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for April 2008

Each weekday Public Affairs publishes online the news from and about UCSF — from the latest research in basic and clinical science to weekly Science Café conversations and podcasts, from stories that embody the UCSF tagline, advancing health worldwide™, to daily campus news and calendar events. Here's a handy index of the content we brought you in April on the UCSF.edu website, in case you missed something the first time around.

Feature Stories - The Big Picture on the UCSF.edu Homepage

Lights, Camera, Enzymes!: A Conversation with Chemist and Protein Expert Brian Shoichet
Just when you thought that genes were still the headliners, pharmaceutical chemist Brian Shoichet has turned the spotlight on enzymes. Why should we care? It's spelled d-r-u-g-s...

Safeway Foundation Gives $2 Million to UCSF for Breast Cancer Support
The philanthropic arm of Safeway Inc. has given the UCSF Carol Franc Buck Breast Care Center $2 million. Funds will fuel research and the creation of new educational and decisionmaking tools for patients, as well as a unique, national clinical trials website...

Barking up the Right Tree: A Conversation About Panic Attacks, Genetics and Freud with Psychiatrist Steven Hamilton
Psychiatrist and geneticist Steven Hamilton, MD, PHD, seeks the genetic causes for human psychiatric disorders. Jittery dogs have helped him sniff out some clues...

UCSF Hosts Forum to Further Triangular Partnership in Global Health
Can a new triangular relationship between academia, industry and foundations bring life-saving medicine to people in the developing world who need it the most? Prominent leaders from each area think it's the best way...

'Good' Cholesterol, Heart Attack Risk and Prevention
A good diet and exercise can help ward off cardiovascular disease. When lifestyle change fails, drugs may help. But statins are not the only promising option...

New York Times Features UCSF Memory Clinic Research
UCSF neurologists William Seeley, MD, and Bruce Miller, MD, reported a fascinating link between the minds of Anne Adams, a Canadian scientist turned artist, and music composer Maurice Ravel, famous for his composition "Bolero," as reported on Tuesday in The New York Times' Science Times...

News Center - News and Research for the Global UCSF Community

• • Science Symposium Highlights Excitement of Cardiovascular Research
  
  
• • Being Overweight or Obese Linked to Faster Brain Aging, Study Suggests
  
  
• • UCSF Opens Photo Exhibit "Honor your mother: Save a Mother's Life"
  
  
• • Study Breaks Ground in Revealing how Neurons Generate Movement
  
  
• • HIV Might Hitch a Ride Into the Brain on Immune Cells, Researchers Find
  
  
• • UCSF Marks a Milestone with 500th Transplant in Heart and Lung Program
  
  
• • Likely Reason Shown for Link Between HIV Drugs and Heart Attacks
  
  
• • UCSF Hosts Science Night at Rosa Parks School on April 24
  
  
• • Video Doc Helps HIV-positive Patients Reduce Risky Behaviors
  
  
• • Surprise: Rise in ER Admissions Caused by the Affluent, Not Uninsured
  
  
• • UCSF to Award its Highest Honor to Four Civic and Scientific Leaders
  
  
• • Public Hearing on Draft EIR for UCSF Mission Bay Med Center
  
  
• • UCSF Among Top Universities in NIH Funding
  
  
• • UCSF Health Workforce Center Pinpoints Shortage of Minority Doctors
  
  
• • UCSF Hosts Oral Cancer Prevention Awareness Event on April 17
  
  
• • Latest Research & Developments in Cancer Highlighted at Major Meeting
  
  
• • UCSF-SFGH Physician to Lead California Diabetes Program
  
  
• • UCSF Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing and Medicine Rank High in New Survey
  
  

UCSF Today - Campus News and Events

• • Four Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences
  
  
• • Sweetow Wins Distinguished Achievement Award in Audiology
  
  
• • Nurse Who Carried Olympic Torch Reflects on Experience
  
  
• • UCSF to Participate in San Francisco AIDS Walk
  
  
• • New Film Profiles UCSF HIV/AIDS Leaders
  
  
• • UCSF to Offer Free Screening for Oral, Head and Neck Cancer on April 25
  
  
• • Benefit Fund Established for Guzman-Solari Family
  
  
• • School of Nursing’s Estes to Be Honored at Symposium
  
  
• • UCSF Forms Chancellor’s Advisory Committee on Sustainability
  
  
• • State Senator Yee to Talk About Health Care Reform at UCSF Today
  
  
• • Stem Cell Research Pioneer to Deliver Faculty Research Lecture
  
  
• • Animal Researcher Protection Legislation Moves Forward
  
  
• • Focus on Your Future at Finance Day
  
  
• • UCSF Prepares for the Worst in Aftermath of VA Tech Tragedy
  
  
• • UCSF to Share Strategic Plan Progress at Upcoming Town Hall Meetings
  
  
• • UCSF to Host Public Hearing on the Draft EIR for Mission Bay Medical Center
  
  
• • Comedian Alec Mapa to Perform Live at UCSF
  
  
• • Division of Neonatology hosts Kickoff and Symposium on Advances in Care
  
  
• • Academic Senate to Honor Two for Distinction in Teaching
  
  
• • Visiting Professor to Talk About Spirituality and End-of-Life Care
  
  
• • UCSF Revamps Ergonomics Program to Better Serve Faculty, Staff
  
  
• • Clements Receives International Pollin Prize for Lifesaving Discovery
  
  
• • UCSF Shares Results of Helicopter Noise Analysis with Community
  
  
• • Four Leaders to Receive UCSF Medal on April 23
  
  
• • Professor to Provide Tips on Home Earthquake Preparedness
  
  
• • UCSF School of Pharmacy Unveils Its Strategic Course
  
  
• • UCSF Police Department to Undergo Accreditation Review
  
  
• • LGBT Elders Pose Major Challenge for Geriatrics and Senior Services

Science Café - Weekly Conversations About the Culture, Conduct and Community of Science

• • April 25, Lights, Camera, Enzymes!: A Conversation with Chemist and Protein Expert Brian Shoichet (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • April 18, Barking up the Right Tree: A Conversation About Panic Attacks, Genetics and Freud with Psychiatrist Steven Hamilton (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • April 11, Tennis Courts and Godzilla: A Conversation with Lung Biologist Thiennu Vu (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • April 4, An Infectious Personality: A Conversation with Virologist Don Ganem, Part 2 of 2 (Read it | Hear it)
  
  
• • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast in iTunes
  
  
• • Subscribe to the Science Café podcast and feed in your preferred newsreader

UCSF People / UCSF Blogs - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students in Their Own Words

• Meet New UCSF Faculty

Science Café Blog:

• • April 29, Where Are the Transcripts?
  
  
• • April 22, A Presidential Science Adviser?
  
  
• • April 15, Library Duo Bucks Database Censors; Parkinson's and Pesticides; Science Debate 2008; and Tejal Desai to Speak on Nanomedicine
  
  
• • April 9, UCSF Science Café "Cooks" in San Diego

inSites – Highlighting Stories from UCSF and Other UCSF Websites

• What’s on the Web? UCSF.edu Index for March 2008

Spotlight / Multimedia - UCSF Faculty, Staff and Students "on the Air"

UCSF Science Café 71: A Conversation with Chemist and Protein Expert Brian Shoichet

UCSF Science Café 70: A Conversation with Psychiatrist Steven Hamilton

UCSF Science Café 69: A Conversation with Lung Biologist Thiennu Vu

UCSF Science Café 68: A Conversation with Don Ganem, Part 2 of 2

FYI... UCSF in the News - Daily summary of news stories that highlight UCSF, its affiliated programs, and issues that affect the University

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• April 24	• April 23	• April 22	• April 21
• April 18	• April 17	• April 16	• April 15
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