ADVISORY/Michael J. Fox Helps UCSF Thank Supporters At Wednesday Event; Andrew Grove to Serve as National Chair of Fundraising Effort.News Editors/Assignment Writers ADVISORY...for Wednesday (Oct. 24) --(BUSINESS WIRE) Michael J. Fox, actor and advocate for medical research, will join a group of the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , San Francisco's biggest supporters for a special event Wednesday evening to thank donors. UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco Chancellor J. Michael Bishop John Michael Bishop (born February 22, 1936) is an American immunologist and microbiologist who won the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He currently serves as an active faculty member and chancellor at the University of California, San Francisco. , MD, will announce a $1.4 billion, multi-year fundraising
Dr. Andrew Stephen Grove (born 1936-09-02) is a Hungarian-American businessman. He participated in the founding of Intel and was key to the company's success. , chairman of Intel Corp., serves as national chair of the effort being called "The Campaign for UCSF." Reporters and photographers are invited to cover the event:
TIME: 6 pm (tours of laboratories)
8:15 pm (comments by J. Michael Bishop, Andrew Grove,
Michael J. Fox)
DATE: Wednesday, October 24
PLACE: Saunders Court, 513 Parnassus Ave.
The event includes tours of laboratories led by post-graduate researchers and faculty members, dinner under a large tent raised in the courtyard For alternative meanings of the word "court", see: Court (disambiguation). A court or courtyard is an enclosed area, often a space enclosed by a building that is open to the sky. at the center of the Parnassus Avenue campus, and a special ceremony in which donors and other campus supporters receive a white physician's coat. Each year, incoming medical students receive their first white coats in a ceremony filled with tradition and inspiration, and the white coat ceremony for those attending the kickoff event recognizes them as partners in UCSF's health science mission. New and existing programs targeted to benefit from the new resources can be found at virtually every campus site, in every school and in a wide range of programs, including programs planned for UCSF Mission Bay, Parnasuss Heights and Mount Zion Mount Zion celestial city. [Br. Lit.: Pilgrim’s Progress] See : Heaven . Members of the news media interested in covering the event should call UCSF News Services at 415/476-2557 to make arrangements. |
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