UCSF Storytellers Take Top Honors

Creativity, curiosity and extraordinary storytelling are on full display in the winners of the eighth annual Synapse Storytelling Contest, with this year’s honorees transforming experiences in medicine, science, nature, identity and everyday life into memorable works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry...

August 25, 2026

Synapse

Campus

This Date in UCSF History: The Politics of History

September 23, 2025

Synapse

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984...

Arts & Culture

From Mistrust to Empowerment: How Historical Medical Racism Drove Black Women Toward Midwifery and Home Births

September 16, 2025

Amanda Lipford

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Non Fiction category.] America: a country that brags about its technology and...

Social Justice

Life Challenges, Struggles, and Wins

September 16, 2025

Prativa Koirala

You thought you’d never survive this. But, darling, a radiant sun awaits to see you rise. You felt as though...

Poetry

Celebrating Creativity: Synapse Announces Storytelling Contest Winners

August 25, 2025

Synapse

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

Aging and the Carbon Imaginary

May 27, 2025

Bri Matusovsky

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

Health