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Students Presented with Outstanding Leadership, Foster Youth Awards During January Regents Meeting

By Joey Greaber on January 29, 2025
UCSF students and alumni, along with a registered campus organization, were presented with awards during the Jan. 23 Regents Meeting, recognizing their leadership, self-determination, and courage.

UCSF Registrar keeps time, integrity in side job

September 30, 2024
Timing and accuracy are everything for Doug Carlson. Carlson has been with the University for two decades and part of the University of California system since September 1994. Before that, he graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in economics in 1990 and the UC Berkeley School of Law in 1994. ...

UCSF recognized for excellence in student voter registration and turnout during the 2022 midterm elections 

September 30, 2024
ALL IN Awards Day honored UCSF for excellence in nonpartisan student voter engagement and campus turnout in the 2022 Midterm Elections

UCSF’s Summer Research Training Program

September 06, 2024
83% of Students go into Science, Thanks to This Diversity Initiative

OCPD mentioned in Inside Higher Ed for career development

July 24, 2024
OCPD’s Naledi Saul was featured in Inside Higher Ed for her work on developing a strategic approach to work and leadership roles by leveraging the six P’s.      
Chequeta Allen

Wellbeing grant enables postdoc financial literacy series

July 24, 2024
Assistant Dean for Postdoctoral Scholars Dr. Chequeta Allen secured a Wellbeing Grant to develop a financial literacy program for postdoctoral scholars. Read more about it from Financial & Administrative Services.

Program Creates Memories for First-Gen Grads and Gives Commencement Regalia a Second Life

June 12, 2024
Commencement is a thrilling moment for UCSF graduates as they celebrate the completion of an arduous academic journey with grandeur and pageantry. The initial chord of “Pomp and Circumstance” announces the procession of graduates – adorned head to toe in traditional graduation garments – signaling...

Student Mental Health and Wellbeing launches to serve UCSF learners

June 03, 2024
Today we launch Student Mental Health and Wellbeing (SMHW), a unit of Student Academic Affairs that is committed to high quality, culturally responsive, holistic mental health care and wellbeing services to assist learners in achieving academic and professional success as well as lifelong health. 

First Generation to College Support Services names 2023 scholarship recipients

February 14, 2024
Twenty students in programs across UCSF’s professional schools and the Graduate Division were awarded the UCSF First Generation to College Scholarship for 2023. The recipients were honored at a lunch.