My first introduction to the field was triaging the hundreds of patients who faced burn wounds more traumatic than any...

[Originally published in Synapse on Jan. 16, 1997.] I suppose I should begin with a qualifying statement. I am not...

[Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental...

1956-57 Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism.

[This piece launches a new series in which former Synapse editors-in-chief look back on experiences, priorities and decisions that shaped...

Forty-three days. The longest government shutdown in United States history. From Oct. 1 through Nov. 12, uncertainty rippled across the...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first...

[Originally published in Synapse on Dec. 12, 1993.] To decorate a Christmas tree Is very hard, you know.

The immune system faces a paradox: it must recognize dangerous invaders while carefully sparing the body it protects. This is...

Yes you! Right on your face I say it aloud I am not ashamed

[Originally published in Synapse on December 2001.] It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car...

On a foggy Friday morning, a cluster of UCSF students in scrubs and backpacks huddle over poster boards a few...

[Originally published in Synapse on December 4, 1996.] I remember the morning after Proposition 187 passed. Schools and health care...

Editor’s Note: Students of UCSF highlights the diverse experiences and personal journeys that shape the UCSF community. Share your own...