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Music and Medicine: Michael Weiner, a professor of Radiology in the School of Medicine, plays the piano with his jazz quartet at Pier 23 Café in San Francisco on Feb. 25. Weiner, who has played the piano since he was 3 years old, is a pioneering brain imaging researcher whose NIH-funded research is working to move dementia screening online. Read more about his research » See this and more Seen Around Campus photos on Facebook »

UCSF in the News

Dollars On The Margins The New York Times | Research shows that higher wages bring much-needed relief to poor workers, improving their physical and mental health. “When the minimum wage goes up, I see it,” said Margot Kushel, MD . “We will spend an incredible amount on a new heart drug. But if we increased wages by $1, we’d save more lives.” Google Translate Can Help Doctors Bridge the Language Gap with Patients – But It’s Not Flawless Gizmodo | A new study found that medical instructions translated with Google Translate were 92 percent accurate in Spanish and 81 percent accurate in Chinese. “Google Translate is more accurate than a lot of clinicians believe, and I think it’s definitely more useful than not providing anything at all,” said lead author Elaine Khoong, MD, MS.

Announcements

International Women’s Day at UCSF : Join UCSF for its first multi-campus celebration of International Women’s Day on Friday, March 8. There will be multiple events at campus and UCSF Health locations. Learn more about the events » UCSF’s 2018 Sustainability Report: From tackling  energy use in labs  to integrating climate change and environmental health into the School of Medicine’s  curriculum , UCSF continued to be a leader in health and sustainability last year. See the full report » Prestigious Award for Graduate Students: Two UCSF graduate students, Adair Borges and Yiming Chen, were named as recipients of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s 2019 Harold M. Weintraub Graduate Student Award. Learn more about their research »

Events

Addressing Bullying and Abusive Conduct in the Workplace March 7 | Laurel Heights International Women's Day Celebration March 8 | Various Campuses Advancing Research with Community Engagement March 8 | Mission Bay Deep Learning in Biomedicine Symposium March 11 | Mission Bay

NIH Diversity Supplements for Health-Related Research March 12 | Mission Bay Launch of POP-UP: HIV and Homeless Program at Ward 86 March 13 | ZSFGH Cinema Screening: Searching for Sugar Man March 14 | Parnassus Celebrate Pi Day at the Library with Lunch March 14 | Parnassus

Celebrating Women's History Month at UCSF

When Lucy Field Wanzer said she wanted to study medicine, an instructor told her that a woman had no business doing so, and if she did, ought to get her ovaries removed. Her reply: “Then men students ought to have their testicles removed.” Wanzer went on to become the first woman to graduate from UCSF in 1876. See more on Facebook

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