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Assistant Dean D'Anne Duncan to Deliver 2022 Last Lecture

March 11, 2022
We are excited to announce that D'Anne Duncan, PhD, assistant dean for diversity and learner success in the Graduate Division and adjunct assistant professor in Social and Behavioral Sciences, has been selected by UCSF students to deliver the 2022 Last Lecture. 

2022 Grad Slam Finalists Announced

By Jeannine Cuevas on March 04, 2022
Grad Slam, the Graduate Division's annual research communications contest, is returning this year after a two-year pandemic-induced hiatus. 
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Task Force Calls for Concrete Actions to Dismantle Systemic Racism

By Jeannine Cuevas on February 04, 2022
In September 2021, the Graduate Division published Steps Towards Dismantling Systemic Racism and Anti-Blackness in UCSF Basic Science Grad

DNP Student Has a Passion for Learning and a Calling to Serve

January 18, 2022
Jennifer Leone, a student in the Doctor of Nursing Practice program at UCSF, is also a certified family nurse practitioner and a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve. She is currently on active duty as Deputy Chief Nurse attached to a unit at McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, a joint military base...

Student Veterans Share Their Perspectives

November 11, 2021
This Veterans Day, several UCSF student veterans have offered their point of view on life the military and at UCSF. We encourage you to learn about the valuable experiences that veterans and military affiliated students bring to the UCSF community.
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­­Summer Research Training Program Continues in Spite of Pandemic

October 27, 2021
­Thanks to the nimble leadership of Assistant Dean for Diversity and Learner Success D'Anne Duncan, together with the formidable energy and dedication of Zachary Smith, diversity and outreach program manager – and owing to the contributions of a village of faculty, postdocs, staff, and UCSF...
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Social Science Students Key Part of Graduate Division Team

September 13, 2021
Each year, the Graduate Division Dean's Office benefits from the hard work of three Rosenberg-Hill fellows, 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...
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Non-Traditional Commencement Ceremony Marks Unusual School Year

By Jeannine Cuevas on June 09, 2021
On May 27, the Graduate Division celebrated this year's resilient graduates in its first-ever completely-online commencement ceremony.
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Four UCSF Learners Selected as Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Fellows

April 13, 2021
We are pleased to announce that two UCSF postdoctoral scholars and two PhD students were recently named UC President's Lindau Nobel Meeting Fellows for 2021.
Antoine Johnson

Student's Research on AIDS in the Black Community Resonates in COVID Pandemic

By Jeannine Cuevas on February 22, 2021
PhD candidate Antoine Johnson's research on the AIDS epidemic in the Bay Area in the 1980s and 90s is extremely relevant today, writes Pendarvis Harshaw, who interviewed Johnson for the Rightnowish podcast produced by KQED, San Francisco's local NPR station.

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