[Originally published in Synapse on January 10, 2008.] For many people, ringing in the New Year is synonymous with setting...

The University of California has averted a graduate student researcher strike by formally recognizing the entirety of the Student Researchers...

It is morning; it is spring. And in the dew, the mountains woo. Distantly heard, the roosters crow; and past...

A UCSF School of Nursing administrator will stand trial in February for allegedly diverting $1.5 million in tuition payments into...

There are moments where you will find No past Or present Or future. Only eternity; An instant that stretches on...

[Third place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category.] One afternoon, while I was taking a walk in the...

In our latest podcast episode, pre-med student and Synapse contributor Sarah Siddiqui talks to the co-presidents of the UCSF chapter...

I am keeping a prisoner; This breath I took two weeks ago; I refuse to let it leave; It paces...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2, 1993.] David E. Smith, MD, founder and director of the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinics...

In our latest podcast, we chat with UCSF alumna Jenny Qi, PhD, ’17, about how she went from publishing cartoons...

[Originally published in Synapse on November 21, 1996.] Before 1973, the year Roe vs. Wade guaranteed women the right to...

There are days in August when you can hear the grass reaching for the sun. Long days where the air...

[Tied for third place in the Synapse Storytelling Contest creative writing category.] June 20, 2020 Just breath deeply - I...

Originally published on November 15, 1990. Several prominent physicians who have devoted much of their working lives in recent years...

Asiri is one of the widows who attended our first meeting. In Dholuo, Asiri’s native language, the term widow is...