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Mexican Immigrant Works to Dress People On Special Occasions
BY JENNIFER MENDOZA Gloria Martinez, a woman with short, curly hair, busily fills tuxedo rental forms, piling one on top of the other, in a store filled with gowns, purpose and possibilities....
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SF State Protest at City Hall
An army of students, faculty and staff — possibly wearing red and black as a traditional symbol of protest in Mexico — will take over the steps at city hall on Thursday. Their demand will be that...
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SF General Breaks Ground on New Hospital
Construction teams break ground today on the San Francisco General Hospital rebuild project, an $887 million initiative to build a hospital that will meet state seismic safety standards. The new...
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Creating a College Culture at John O’Connell
The palm tree-lined atrium of John O’Connell High was buzzing with nervous energy as students gathered to see and hear what their peers pitched about college. “They have a great sports program. They’re...
View ArticleCollege Cutbacks to Hurt Transfer Students
Transfer admissions deadlines are fast approaching and City College of San Francisco students applying to California’s public universities next fall could be facing an uphill battle. Not only are...
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Women Seek Stability in SROs
It’s the first of the month, and Tree is sailing around in silk slips and high heels. She’s new to the 248-room Mission Hotel, the city’s biggest single room occupancy (SRO) hotel. It’s government...
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Mission Bay Roundup: Hospital on 16th Street
En Español The University of California, San Francisco is on schedule for constructing its children’s, women’s, and cancer hospital in Mission Bay, though offices for medical school faculty still need...
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Art, Science Mixer At Mission Bay
As researchers trickled out of UC San Francisco’s Genentech Hall on a warm, windless evening this week, assorted visitors with stylish glasses and prettier footwear made their way against the flow and...
View ArticleThe King of Hazardous Waste
En Español In 1997, a UCSF scientist named Stanley Prusiner received the Nobel Prize in Physiology for discovering prions, the proteins responsible for mad cow and new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob...
View ArticleUCSF Plans for Empty Mission Bay Land
En Español In just a few years, the Mission Bay campus of the University of California, San Francisco, has solidified into a destination, with foot traffic, a farmers market, housing and a plaza with a...
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