The sickly sweet aroma of the elderly wafts upwards as I walk through the hallways. She sits on her bed...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 22, 2007.] Recent data suggests that latent infection with Toxoplasma gondii, commonly thought to...

In the war-torn town of Gaza, Palestine, where the echoes of desperate pleas for a ceasefire reverberate through the rubble-filled...

I have never taken a class about the polycrisis, and in fact only recently learned what it is. The polycrisis...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 20, 1974.] Wilma Scott Heide, the first nurse to be elected national president of...

Synapse: UCSF Student Voices is proud to present the sixth annual science speaker series with Lesley McClurg, KQED health correspondent...

A place where individuals can inject drugs with either in-person or virtual supervision may sound like a dystopian reality, but...

a public chortle, woven and gleeful

[Originally published on March 9, 2000.] As many people in the community had anticipated, Proposition 22, which limited the definition...

What better time and opportunity than Black History Month to honor one of our own, a leader in student success...

On Feb. 16 of this year, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that the “Wrongful Death of a Minor Act applies...

[Originally published in Synapse on March 5, 1990.] We live in an exciting time. Throughout the world, walls we once...

The next attack on abortion rights in the United States threatens far-reaching and drastic consequences on the state of reproductive...

One day there’ll be a reactor meltdown. The seas will swelter in a vicious response

[Originally published on February 22, 1996.] Chinese New Year is a misnomer. The arrival of the same new year is...