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The Game is On: Meet the UCSF Grad Slam Finalists!

March 12, 2025
Get ready for UCSF Grad Slam! The Graduate Division’s popular annual research communications contest returns on April 2 as part of UCSF’s celebration of National Graduate Student Appreciation Week.
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PhD Students Mark Milestone in Graduate Division’s Inaugural Candidacy Ceremony

By Erik Rotman on March 11, 2025
PhD candidates, faculty mentors, friends, family, and staff members gathered at UCSF Mission Bay campus on Feb. 25 to formally celebrate students who passed their qualifying exams in 2024 and have advanced to candidacy.

IMSD Receives NIH NIGMS T-32 Training Grant Supporting UCSF Graduate Programs

By Joey Greaber on March 11, 2025
A research training grant from the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) Initiative for Maximizing Student Development has been awarded to the UCSF Graduate Division in support of institutional efforts to build a highly qualified scientific workforce.
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Honoring Grad Student and Postdoc Mentors

By Erik Rotman on February 03, 2025
On January 30, the Graduate Division Dean’s Office celebrated National Mentoring Month by honoring recipients of the 2025 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Mentoring for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Scholars with a ceremony and reception in Genentech Hall at Mission Bay.
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Meet our newest Rosenberg-Hill Fellow, Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro

By Erik Rotman on January 21, 2025
Sociology PhD candidate Abou Ibrahim-Biangoro is the newest graduate student researcher to support the Graduate Division team as part of the Rosenberg-Hill Fellowship.
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Postdocs, PhD Alum Named HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellows

January 14, 2025
Two current UCSF postdocs and a PhD alum who are among this year's recipients of Hanna H. Gray Fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
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Discovery Fellows Symposium Celebrates Basic Science Research and Donor Support

November 12, 2024
Students, faculty members, alumni, donors, staff, family, and friends gathered at the UCSF Mission Bay campus on the evening of Oct. 30 for the 2024 Discovery Fellows’ Michael Page, PhD Research Symposium. This event is a favorite opportunity to celebrate basic science graduate education with short...
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Social Science Students Bolster Graduate Division Staff

November 01, 2024
Each year, the Graduate Division Dean's Office benefits from the hard work of graduate student researchers who support the Division's administrative operations as well as conduct studies that will benefit graduate students and postdocs at UCSF for years to come. Past fellows have worked on projects...
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Announcing Newest Curci Scholars and a New Phase of Curci Foundation Support

October 28, 2024
The Graduate Division is excited to announce its third cohort of UCSF Curci Scholars. As recipients of The Shurl and Kay Curci Foundation PhD Scholarship, these five first year students in the basic sciences will receive full financial support for the first two years of their PhD program.

Postdocs Ace the Slam!

September 24, 2024
Ten postdoc finalists brought their A-game to Postdoc Slam 2024 with impressive and engaging presentations aimed at sharing their research with a broad audience. Four walked away with big cash prizes.

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