Synapse: December 7, 1964
Today, a visitor to UC Berkeley can see a campus full of people recruiting, promoting, soliciting, tabling, proselytizing and otherwise...
Synapse: November 16, 1989
To many students at UCSF today, Mount Zion is simply another campus, but until 25 years ago it was wholly...
Synapse: November 8, 1984
Today, the most prominent divestment movement at UCSF is to withdraw from fossil-fuel companies. A generation ago, it was divestment...
Synapse: October 17, 1974
"Technology and science, once worshipped as the gods of our secular society, have lately been found wanting. People are wondering...
Synapse: September 17, 1964
The brief article “Medical Student Wives to Greet Newcomers” catches the eye for its reflection of a markedly changed student...
Evolution/Population Genetics
Presentation: “The Population Bomb: Explosive population growth and the excess of rare, deleterious variation within the human genome” Presenter: Raul...
BODYJAM™ at Parnassus: Bust A Move!
“What do you do inBODYJAM™?” My usual response is, “Imagine you were Beyonce’s back-up dancer. That’s what you do in...
Running the Nike Women's Marathon
The crowds of people, the challenges that lie ahead, the possibility that anything can happen may overwhelm an amateur runner...
MLB Playoff Preview: A New Wild Card Race
Let me begin with a quick break down of the organizational structure of the baseball playoffs. Major League Baseball consists...