Applications for a new round of the Environmental Scholars Program are open to all UCSF students who have at least...

Once the obligations of an international agreement are broken for the first time, it's easier to continue breaking the agreement...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] When I was sixteen, I was diagnosed with polycystic...

During their first week of medical school, incoming UCSF medical students participate in Differences Matter Orientation (DMO), a two-day immersive...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] Phoebe, panting hard, let the door slam behind her and...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 17, 1998.] Research leading to treatments of Alzheimer’s disease, stroke and HIV-associated dementia will...

Algorithms can forecast which patients are likely to return to the hospital. Whether anyone has the resources to intervene is...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 13, 1990.] After 10 years of planning and three years of construction, the new...

Creativity, curiosity and extraordinary storytelling are on full display in the winners of the eighth annual Synapse Storytelling Contest, with...

Health equity has become a key focus in healthcare and biomedical research. However, in clinical trials, equity is often only...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 1989.] The eyes of medical professionals and legislators throughout the nation will be...

I am a descendant of a survivor of the Armenian Genocide. I grew up surrounded by fragments of this history...

What does it mean to practice medicine in a time of political upheaval, environmental crisis, and deepening inequality? This unsettled...

“If you had but one lecture to give, what would you say?” Last month, Dr. Jennifer Cocohoba from the School...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 11, 1978.] Immortality, Mankind’s oldest dream, that of conquering death itself to secure a...