Every time you step into a political argument, you’re not simply debating another person – there is a battle happening...

I served as editor-in-chief of Synapse in 2002–2003. Before that, I was the food editor, which conveniently meant Synapse reimbursed...

[Originally published in Synapse on January 29, 2009.] President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting...

Pops of pickleballs meeting paddles spill through the glass doors to the Millbury basketball court. It’s Saturday, Oct. 25, my...

[In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper.] I was a member of the the Synapse...

My first introduction to the field was triaging the hundreds of patients who faced burn wounds more traumatic than any...

[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 16, 1997.] I suppose I should begin with a qualifying statement. I am not...

[Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental...

1956-57 Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism.

[This piece launches a new series in which former Synapse editors-in-chief look back on experiences, priorities and decisions that shaped...

Forty-three days. The longest government shutdown in United States history. From Oct. 1 through Nov. 12, uncertainty rippled across the...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first...

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 12, 1993.] To decorate a Christmas tree Is very hard, you know.

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is...