[Originally published on September 5, 2002.] Welcome First Year (insert school here) Students! In the next week to months you...

Imagine this: It’s your first semester of college — just one month in — and you suddenly can’t reach your...

From magical realism to urgent calls for justice, from fog-draped skylines to lyrical meditations on the self — this year’s...

Is it easier to find your date on Tinder or is it easier to find the next molecular target for...

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to...

When the waiting caught on fire the world rages Agitation No amount is the right amount

Imagine you or a loved one missing school every month simply because they didn't have access to menstrual hygiene products...

During my years as a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), I never stopped to think about...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998.] Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia...

April 18-20, 2025, Big Sur San Simeon backpacking. I brought Jack Kerouac’s Big Sur with me to the trip, but...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 7, 1981.] In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race...

Synapse — UCSF Student Voices, UCSF’s 70-year-old student news outlet, is seeking an editor-in-chief or two co-editors-in-chief who would share...