Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...

Not the darkness that stars bathe in Not the brain illness that requires saving

Pipetting takes approximately 1027.66 hours/year-person (unpublished) in an average biology lab, and a way to automate that process would save...

I became a runner during my clinical rotations of medical school. When my days overflowed with meaning. So much to...

[Originally authored by medical student Eric Chow and published in Synapse on November 20, 1998.] After a five-minute walk, I...

More than 400 UCSF-affiliated students, faculty, community members and healthcare workers — many wearing scrubs and white coats — held...

The boy smiles upwards at his father, cherub cheeks and a childish grin. The man lifts the child onto his...

[Originally authored by medical student Ashkay Govinder and published on Nov. 15, 2012.] I love cooking a traditional Thanksgiving meal...

[Third place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Photography category.] In this captured moment, behold a miniature range of sand...

A question meant only as a greeting. A chance at connection diminished to a mere formality. In what public health...

momma made the best baked fish in the world. dad fed us stories.

[ Second place winner in the fiction category.] There is a city to the west built upon a peninsula of...

Lately — and maybe always — I am bewitched by translation and etymology. Both imperfect, curious, spiraling. In their mouths...

[Originally written by medical student Amy Ewing and published in Synapse on Nov. 6, 1997.] Last year I arranged to...

[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...