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Thursday, May 29, 2014
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UC President Calls on Community to Honor Memory of UCSB Victims
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Ishi: The Great Anthropological Treasure UCSF “resident” was the last of the Yahi tribe By Yi Lu Editor
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n 1999, the UCSF Synapse published a short article about the continued efforts to repatriate the remains of Ishi, who spent the last years of his life on the Parnassus campus before dying in 1916. Fifteen years later, in time for UCSF’s sesquicentennial, we offer a long-overdue conclusion to Ishi’s story.
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resident Janet Napolitano sent a message on Tuesday to the University of California community expressing her shock over the “horrific rampage near UC Santa Barbara this past Friday night that took the lives of six of our students and injured nine other students.” She asked the community to send thoughts and prayers to the victims of this tragedy, their families and the entire Santa Barbara community. “This is a time for mourning and grieving, and for consoling and supporting each other. It will take time for our UCSB colleagues to recover and heal from this,” she said. To begin that healing, UCSB canceled classes on Tuesday, May 27, and declared the day one of mourning and reflection. A memorial service organized jointly by students, staff and faculty was held on campus. Napolitano also ordered flags at all University of California facilities to be lowered to half-staff through Sunday, June 1, to honor
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Interpreter Sam Batwi, UC Berkeley anthropologist Alfred Kroeber and Ishi. Courtesy of Archives and Special Collections, Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco.
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One hundred years ago, before UCSF became a global brand in the health sciences, Parnassus Avenue was home to the Affiliated Colleges of the University of California. Riding a streetcar toward the ocean, one would first pass the College of Dentistry and Pharmacy, then the Romanesque stone façade of the College of Medicine and finally, most curiously, the University Museum of Anthropology. In 1914, this anthropology museum, originally intended for the Hastings College of the Law, housed artifacts from the Phoebe Hearst Collection—Greek coins, Egyptian mummies and the like. Among these curios, bought or plundered from cultures long since extinct, lived an assistant janitor known as Ishi, a man whom the San Francisco Examiner called “the greatest anthropological treasure…ever captured.” I The story of Ishi and his tribe stretches back centuries before his time at the Affiliated Colleges, a long thread in the history of indig-
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Social Media Says Congrats to the 2014 #UCSFGradDiv Graduates Staff Report
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A social media wall has been set up congratulating the UCSF Graduate Division Class of 2014.
ongratulations to the #UCSFGradDiv Class of 2014! You are some of the best innovative minds in #SF & I wish you great success!” tweeted San Francisco Major Ed Lee on Friday, May 23, as the last of this year’s graduates from the Graduate Division walked off the stage. Every tweet and photo containing the #UCSFGradDiv hashtag was projected onto a white wall within minutes. It was an opportunity for graduating students to thank their mentors and supporters and for families and friends and even the mayor to congratulate the graduates, with a modern twist. In keeping with the spirit of gratitude that permeated the day, students could tweet their own thank yous to Dr. Susan Kools, recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award. The award was presented by the Graduate Students’ Association (GSA) and the Graduate Division Alumni Association (GDAA), represented by Jenny Qi, GSA Public Affairs Officer, and Dr. Adam Mendelsohn, PhD, GDAA President. Audience members immediately Instagrammed the human brain Dr. Allan Basbaum pulled out of a Styrofoam box at the end of his address to the degree candidates. The human brain, he said, is an organ of remarkable plasticity, and we must pursue a lifelong habit of learning. The social media wall is still on virtual display at http://www.tintup.com/ucsfgrad, thanks to Graduate Division Communications Director Jeannine Cuevas.