[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...

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...