This Date in UCSF History: Cuts and Fee Increase
[Originally published in Synapse on September 9, 2004.] The University of California sustained its fourth budget cut in a row when the state legislature adopted the 2004-05 budget last month.
This Date In UCSF History: Desperately Seeking Diversity
Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF Student Newspaper, Oct. 25, 1979 If the University of California does not greatly...
Sexual Harassment is Rife in Sciences
A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine has concluded that a “systemwide change to the...
Humans of UCSF: Project Partners
We’re both enrolled in a master’s program that is focused on translational medicine, which is the process of converting scientific...
Humans of UCSF: Imagining the Future
I have always been curious and interested about how new technologies can improve patient care. As a result, after receiving...
This Date in History: Affirmative action
[Originally Published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, March 9, 1978] UCSF is one of the largest employers in...
Modernizing Science Publishing
The way we communicate academic science today has remained largely unchanged from when the peer-reviewed publishing system was initially developed...
Med students charge exam policy 'punitive, unfair'
[Originally published in Synapse, Volume 27, Number 6, 14 October 1982] Medical students at UCSF who failed part I of...
From Bench to Bedside
What does it take to repair a broken heart? The Biomedical Sciences (BMS) graduate program at UCSF is instilling in...
Advocate Shares Her Story
In a “Faculty-Student Meet and Greet” event hosted by UCSF’s Women in Life Sciences group, I was inspired by Carol...