[Part 5 of a photo series on life after 2020.] Leaving the country for the first time after 2020, it’s...

This means war, blues versus red.No guns, less germs,But plenty of steel. There will be blood, I fear.Drip, drip, drip,Sweat...

[Originally published on March 6, 2008.] Today’s UCSF community is more diverse than ever before with many ethnicities and minority...

[Part 4 of a photo series on life after 2020.] When I stepped onto a boat for the first time...

Listen to our latest podcast episode: Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s Chair of the Department of Medicine, gained a vast twitter...

His irritation hums as I push back the curtain in the emergency roomthe air electric and tense.He clutches a juicebox(grape...

The founders of a biotech firm that launched at a UCSF start-up incubator in 2012 with promises of a groundbreaking...

[Part 3 of a photo series on life after 2020.] There was one week in 2021 when even San Francisco...

[Originally published March 3, 1988.] For the past six years the Women’s Medical Student Association, WMSA, with the help of...

Before twenty five I haveSeen towers fall and dictators riseAs if history is a lever that seeksequilibrium. I trust that...

Down, down I follow the sounds Of waves and winds murmuring Against the rocks

My apartment fire escape overlooks a corner portion of the UCSF Parnassus campus.The cluster of hospital buildings stands at a...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 28, 1985.] The UCSF Black Caucus began a month to the day after the...

[Part 2 of a photo series on life after 2020.] Right before the pandemic began, a Ferris wheel was built...

[Originally published in Synapse on February 24, 1983.] Come with me on a brief journey into the not too distant...