What do you say to the fatherless ones on Fathers Day? Do you look them in their long-lost eyes and...

[Originally authored by Dr. Amy Levine — Director of UCSF’s Center for Gender Equity — and published in Synapse on...

Padma Thapa, a 65-year-old woman living in Nepal, was given a second chance at life in 2018 after receiving surgery...

I’m albino. My eyes are … different. In many ways, the world is not built for me. Every time I...

This is not tax advice. I am by no means a tax guru. Please don’t misconstrue this as helpful.

[Originally authored by Dr. Philip R. Lee — a UCSF professor of social medicine and director of the Institute for...

Elections for the Graduate & Professional Student Association (GPSA) happen from April 15-29. However, at the start of writing this...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 15, 2010.] April 15 is Tax Day. For most UCSF students, this has less...

[Originally published in Synapse on April 5, 2012.] Over 200 students and community members flocked to a two-day UCSF LGBTQI...

This is a sick note. A sick note for a nation that is perpetually tired. Tired because we have been...

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...