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This Date in UCSF History: Lunar New Year Facts and Lore
[Originally published on February 22, 1996.] Chinese New Year is a misnomer. The arrival of the same new year is...
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Candle Man
His opulent flame burns with an optimistic flow, spurs pirouetting memories in a room that’s dim;
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the mermaiden
my roses are yellow, as yellow as the hair of the mermaiden,
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Craft Making Meets Science At Artisan Guild Market
What does craft making and science have in common? Quite a bit if made by members of the UCSF community.
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Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: a Masterful, Timeless Thriller (set in San Francisco!)
Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...
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Darkness
Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving
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Divisible cities
[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...
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This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Day of the Dead
[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...
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UCSF Hosts First Ever 'Zine' Fair
If you’re one of those people who walks into an independent bookstore and goes straight to the “Zine” section, you...