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Common Bronzeback

Common Bronzeback. 

Photo by Gnaneswar Ch

All It Takes is a Walk with Kali: Irular Sunrise Snake Walk Experience

On the day of the snake walk, I was up before the sun preparing myself and a bag full of essentials for the excursion: Sunscreen, closed-toed shoes, my camera, and snacks.
September 19, 2023
Lily Ortiz
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Hands holding sign reading on strike.

This Date in UCSF History: UC Grad Students Strike

December 11, 2022
Synapse
[Originally published on December 3, 1998.] Students at the eight other University of California campuses went on strike Tuesday, Dec...
Student Life
Electron microscopy images of bacteriophage docking on and injecting genetic material into a bacterial host.

The Infinitely Big in the Infinitely Small

December 3, 2022
Julianne Riggs
[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] The typical existential thoughts of a graduate student drifted through...
Student Life
View from a back seat.

Behind Their Wheels

November 14, 2022
Michelle Bui
Fall 2021 “How do you know that a man loves you?” *** Emmanuel had a firm build and rigid posture...
Student Life
Graphic depicting questions and answers.

Hey, First Years, What Do You Want To Know?

November 8, 2022
Julianne Riggs
Being a first-year graduate student can be hard. Like, really hard. As a first year, you may feel like a...
Student Life
Sri Lankan food aid gathering.

Sri Lankan Student Helps Home Country in Crisis

October 24, 2022
Kevin Long
When Biomedical Sciences PhD student Yash Abeykoon, a Sri Lankan citizen, traveled back to her home country in June, she...
Student Life
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This Date in UCSF History: Don’t Forget to Vote

October 24, 2022
Synapse
[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...
Student Life
The Philippines' bronze medal winning team at the 1954 World Championships.

A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers

October 16, 2022
Gabby Rabadam
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
Student Life
Medical students on rounds

From Patient to Student at UCSF

September 26, 2022
Sonam Kumari
In the summer of 2012, I was a healthy 16-year-old cloaked with naïve invincibility. So, when I was waking up...
Student Life
Frustrated woman

Phd F****ery

September 26, 2022
Giselle Pérez-Aguilar
The Phd program sucks the life out of me, It’s like jumping on a treadmill and not being able to...
Student Life
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