Grad Students Run Away as Amazing Race Champs

There’s a group of UCSF students who now know exactly where fortune cookies are made in Chinatown and have met eight-foot-tall Laughing Sal at the Musee Mechanique.

Last Saturday, on a sunny breezy morning 70 students from the schools of Dentistry, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy and the Graduate Division competed in the First Annual UCSF Amazing Race. Planned as part of the Fall Passport to Success Program, and co-sponsored by Student Academic Affairs and Campus Life Services, the Race had teams of three or four students traveling by foot or on Muni throughout San Francisco finding answers to clues and performing physical and mental tasks.

A team of four Graduate Students, Arthur Millius, Sheel Dandekar, Tyler Faust and John Leonard, were the first place finishers. Students were excited to participate, meeting students from other programs and having the chance to get to know San Francisco better.
A complete list of runners and times will be posted on the Passport to Success site (http://passport.ucsf.edu) on Friday, October 9. Stay tuned: there is more amazement coming!

This article appeared in the October 8, 2009 issue of Synapse.