This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Year of the Snake
[Originally published in on February 7, 2013.] Welcome to the Year of the Snake! Snake is the yin to last year’s Dragon yang. That said, Snake does not settle for mediocrity, either.
Chinese Poems
过香积寺 - 王维 不知香积寺， 数里入云峰。 古木无人径， 深山何处钟。 泉声咽危石， 日色冷青松。 薄暮空潭曲， 安禅制毒龙。 Going Right Past the Temple of Accumulated Fragrance Wang...
BANG!
I should have known from the way I saw him driving. No one drives like that. The black Benz was...
The PhD Movie Coming to a Theater Near You
PhD Comics, created in 1997 by Jorge Cham, catalogs the lives and times of graduate students and postdocs in an...
CAAMFEST: A Festival of Asian American Film, Music and Food
Each March since 1982, the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM) has put on a festival presenting stories illustrating the...
The UCSF Formal: Desserts, Dancing and Letting Loose
One week before the UCSF Formal, I began my mental and physical training for what I knew would be an...
Chinese Culture Show Celebrates Year of the Snake
As the moon wanes, the end of the Chinese lunar calendar approaches, and many groups at UCSF prepare to celebrate...
UCSF Geriatrics Professor Celebrates Her Literary Debut
After finishing a reading from her collection of short stories, an audience member asked author Louise Aronson what her dream...
A Night at the Symphony
The symphony evokes notions of magnificent concert halls and brilliant music. I had not attended a symphony in a few...
Spoken Word at UCSF: Reflecting on Our Humanity
When was the last time you listened to someone? The last time you asked a colleague “How’s it going?” and...