Encounterings
Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths, any word becomes an hour, and every hour spent coaxing: lost, incongruous, evolving meanings into being.
Tax Reforms Hits Grads
Getting through graduate school is challenging, but the process may get even harder if the tax plans being debated by...
Selling Out Medicare's Soul
[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, Volume 40, Number 8, 26 October 1995] On Oct. 18 the...
Call Out Racism
Over a month ago I rode a few hours north to the quiet seclusion of Mendocino County to attend XRYSALIS...
Why Scientists Should Care About The Repeal of DACA
The headlines this summer have been marred by one disturbing theme: an attack on diversity in the United States. With...
Welcome Back From the Synapse's Editor in Chief
After a week of vacation I returned to my lab and an inbox crowded with emails. As I read through...
UCSF Cares
After reading Aaron Mattingly’s recently published Synapse article “Leadership or Lip Service?” about his disappointment in Executive Vice Chancellor and...
Leadership or Lip Service?
On Thursday April 27 UCSF held the 10th Annual Chancellor’s Leadership Forum on Diversity and Inclusion, but I was not...
The Class Worrier
Professor Robert Reich believes that the greatest current threat to our democracy is not our president, not congressmen, and not...
Is the March for Science political?
“Is the March for Science political?” my friend asked me a week before the march. “Why are you doing it?”...