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Dreaming of Home

Editor’s Note: Students of UCSF highlights the diverse experiences and personal journeys that shape the UCSF community. Share your own story or nominate a colleague by emailing us at synapse@ucsf.edu .

November 18, 2025

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On The Air

December 18, 2018

“Last year, I was doing this exercise where I would leave lab and then I would put a little tick...

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UCSF Health Professional Students Model An Anti-Racist Curriculum

December 10, 2018

UC San Francisco health professional students and White Coats for Black Lives (WC4BL) joined trainees, faculty, administrators, staff, and community...

Daughterhood

November 16, 2018

Something I always admired about my dad is his ability to talk at length on any subject. Even as I...

Join an RCO

November 13, 2018

UCSF Graduate Students are superheroes. They conceive of, develop, and perform ground-breaking science. But that alone is not enough. They...

This Date in UCSF History: New Students Talk Politics

September 24, 2018

Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF Student Newspaper on Sept. 28, 1978 After listening to their professors and administrators...

This Date in UCF History: A TV Mystery

May 21, 2018

[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper on May 19, 1983] Those strolling through the UCSF lobbies can’t...

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Humans of UCSF: Bridging the Gap

May 21, 2018

Born and raised in a physician's family, I picked up an early love for medicine and went on to pursue...

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The Mosaic

April 27, 2018

Shakkaura Kemet

The Mosaic is a piece of writing I did to process the death of our classmate, Colin Alexander, earlier this...

This Date in UCSF History: Campaign for Affordability

February 23, 2018

[Originally published in Synapse - The UCSF student newspaper, Feb. 28, 2008] The storm of the state’s budget crisis is...