[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 30, 1986.] It may not be a presidential election year, but next Tuesday’s midterm...

In the latest report by EH&S, a surprising and worrying trend was detected.

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...

[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...

The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...

[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...

A sleuthing scientist tracking down culprits of dementia landed the top prize at the 5th annual UCSF Postdoc Slam 2022...

Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen

[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in...

In the summer of 2012, I was a healthy 16-year-old cloaked with naïve invincibility. So, when I was waking up...

Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...

The Phd program sucks the life out of me, It’s like jumping on a treadmill and not being able to...

[ Originally published in Synapse on September 29, 1993.] A campus forum on “Interracial Racism,” held Sept. 21 in Toland...