Constitution

Best of the Storytelling Contest

This Date in UCSF History: The Politics of History

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world could evolve.

September 23, 2025

Campus

Figure walking into darkness.

Darkness

December 5, 2023

Nick Fiorentino

Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving

Low angle image of people walking on glass floor.

Divisible cities

October 31, 2023

[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...

Food on altar.

This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Day of the Dead

October 31, 2023

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...

Zine vendors

UCSF Hosts First Ever 'Zine' Fair

October 17, 2023

If you’re one of those people who walks into an independent bookstore and goes straight to the “Zine” section, you...

Woman breathing in sunlight.

Words in the Wind

May 9, 2023

soft summer air skies tinted pastel orange the breeze tickles my face

Sunset over field

Heavens on Sunday March

April 4, 2023

White concrete poured poorly, The edges pink and undercooked.

Heart breaking illustration.

Summer & Winter

April 4, 2023

She was right. I don’t know what love is I’ve seen it, and received it, but never given it Or...

Woman floating in ocean.

Meander

January 23, 2023

Been drifting along A sea of green. Been free to be, to breathe, to dream

Hands slicing apricots.

apricots & shallots

December 3, 2022

I think often of the apricots & shallots that I diced in your kitchen last year with a knife you...