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...

As we wrap up the 65th year of Synapse’s publication, I’m reminded that in 2019, we were preoccupied with fake...

Academia isn’t the only answer to a career path after PhD, though it may be the most typical one that...

[Originally published on May 27, 1966.] The Committee for Independent Political Action, a recognized on-campus political organization, has announced plans...

While 2021 may seem in some ways like a slow-motion repeat of 2020, nature and the outdoors may help anchor...

[This is the final part of a three-part series on the California Rescue Dog Association.] A dog is only half...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 2006.] A young woman meaning to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic unwittingly entered...