REMINDER/UCSF To Dedicate Mission Bay Campus at Festive Event October 28.News Editors/Calendar Editors REMINDER...for Tuesday (Oct. 28) --(BUSINESS WIRE) UCSF UCSF University of California at San Francisco 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 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. , announcement of the largest contribution from individual donors in UCSF history, a look at the future campus via a dramatic display of weather balloons weather balloon, balloon used in the measurement and evaluation of mostly upper atmospheric conditions (see atmosphere). Information may be gathered during the vertical ascent of the balloon through the atmosphere or during its motions once it has reached a marking all building locations, and presentations by scientists. Media are invited to 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 This is a list of arterial thoroughfares and significant commercial corridors in San Francisco. Arterial Thoroughfares 19th Avenue Arterial thoroughfare that bisects the western part of the city, extending from Interstate 280 to Golden Gate Park on the way to the 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 vice chancellor n. Abbr. VC 1. A deputy or an assistant chancellor in a university. 2. A deputy to or a substitute for a head of state or an official bearing the title chancellor. 3. 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 Pharmacogenetics Definition Pharmacogenetics is the study of how the actions of and reactions to drugs vary with the patient's genes. Description : 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 San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden Mayor Willie Brown The name Willie Brown may refer to:
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 Sala Burton (April 1, 1925 – February 1, 1987) was a United States Representative from California. She was born Sala Galante in Białystok, Poland. She attended public schools in San Francisco and San Francisco University. 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 Biomedical research (or experimental medicine), in general simply known as medical research, is the basic research or applied research conducted to aid the body of knowledge in the field of medicine. 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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