Only two-and-a-half years ago I was a third-year medical student completing my first clinical rotation when the news hit about...

Being a first-year graduate student can be hard. Like, really hard. As a first year, you may feel like a...

Third place winner in the Storytelling Contest fiction category. My breath was shaky. My hands were still trembling as my...

Originally published on November 13, 1997. Last week the United States Supreme Court ruled that it would not hear a...

This week, 48,000 academic workers across the University of California system are holding a vote to authorize a strike over...

Since the start of the novel COVID-19 coronavirus, billions of lives globally have been irreversibly changed. Public health safety measures...

[Originally published on November 7, 1985.] Local family planning agencies and prochoice groups are concerned about a move by congressional...

the sky smokes a cigarette, exhales an enormous ring into our museum.

When Biomedical Sciences PhD student Yash Abeykoon, a Sri Lankan citizen, traveled back to her home country in June, she...

There’s a new COVID booster shot out there. I sat down with Dr. Joshua Adler, Executive Vice President for Physician...

[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...