It took a global pandemic for me to realize that a bucket-list trip could be just a drive away. I...

The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...

[Victoria Turner’s submission won first place in the Storytelling Contest’s science writing category.] As the pressures and restrictions of 2020...

Crises bring out the best and the worst in people. The COVID-19 pandemic is no different. Through this trying time...

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...

Are you looking for ways to advocate and be more involved in reproductive justice, especially following the horrendous​ Texas abortion...

Ninad Bhat’s “Batteries” is the winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Creative Writing category. The poem introduces an everyday, offhand...

Having detailed, in Part One, major events that led to Haiti’s founding, this section, or Part Two, traces how Haiti...

Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...

Welcome to the start of a new academic year and Synapse’s 66th year of publication. As 2021 has transported us...

The results are in! Our judges have awarded the 12 best submissions to the Synapse Storytelling Contest by talented UCSF...

Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...

These events helped create a frame of reference from which Haiti’s ongoing political crisis, as signaled by late President Jovenel...

During the wee hours of June 7, 2021, Haiti’s 58th president, Jovenel Moïse, a 53-year-old father of three, two sons...

Under the weight of one man 9 minutes and 29 seconds An atrocity that many of us claimed to not...