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Contains the laboratory research notebooks and professional papers of Nobel Prize-winning scientist and UCSF professor and chancellor, Dr. J. Michael Bishop, dated 1960-2008. Material relates to microbiology and Bishop's work on cancer and genetics.

Abstract Claire Brindis is a Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy at UCSF, as well as the Director of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) at UCSF. The collection includes reports, proposals, correspondence, and newspaper and magazine clippings collected over the course of her nearly 40 year career. Materials cover such subjects as reproductive health services, adolescent pregnancy prevention, abortion, reproductive health and family planning, substance abuse prevention,...

Abstract The papers of noted medical professor and researcher Frederick L. Dunn document his career as a professor, medical doctor, and anthropologist, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1950-1980. Dunn is a scholar-practitioner who was instrumental in the development of the fields of international health and anthropology in public health, formerly known as "tropical medicine," and his work has left lasting impressions on how it is continued to be practiced. The majority of Dunn's...

Abstract The papers of noted medical professor and researcher Frederick L. Dunn document his career as a professor, medical doctor, and anthropologist, with the bulk of the collection dating from 1950-1980. Dunn is a scholar-practitioner who was instrumental in the development of the fields of international health and anthropology in public health, formerly known as "tropical medicine," and his work has left lasting impressions on how it is continued to be practiced. The majority of Dunn's...

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Correspondence, biographical information, administrative files, laboratory and research notebooks, papers, strains databases, photographs and slides, and audio-visual items documenting Ira Herskowitz career as a pioneering geneticist

Abstract The Office of Diversity and Outreach was established in 2009 after student activists sent out a critical call to action to UCSF leadership. It's work grew out of the work of pioneering grassroots organizations like the Black Caucus. The collection is comprised of administrative materials collected and used by the Office of Diversity and Outreach from 1997-2020. This includes mostly papers, including annual reports, campus-wide statistics and published papers on unconscious bias, sexism,...

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Contains the records of the Radiologic Imaging Laboratory (RIL) of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from its initial funding by Pfizer, Inc. through its operation as a unit of Diasonics, Inc. and Toshiba America MRI (TAMI). Material relates to the RIL's development and sale of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) technology, dated 1963-2010.

Content Description Robert B. Aird worked first as a neurosurgeon and then as a neurologist at the University of California at San Francisco. He was made the first chair when the Department of Neurology was created in 1949 and was professor and chair until his retirement in 1966. This collection includes papers, photographs, travel diaries, books, ephemera, and medical instruments including canvas surgical roll with instruments, stethoscope, haemacytometer, blood pressure apparatus, and Vappler Electric Co....

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The Committee on Arts and Lectures organized lectures and performances for the UCSF community from 1939-1972. Collection contains lecture transcripts, event programs, photographs and audiotapes. Includes materials contained in a scrapbook belonging to Salvatore Pablo Lucia, lecture transcripts of talks given by Barnaby Conrad, Alfred R. Sumner, and Chauncey D. Leake (to name a few), as well as photographs of various speakers such as photographer, Ansel Adams.