A Balikbayan Box for My Ballers
[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest nonfiction category.] In the summer of 2020, I participated in Celestial Journeys...
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This Date in UCSF History: Mystery Surrounds Radiation Exposure Readings
[Originally published on October 15, 1987.] Synapse has learned that sometime last July three UCSF radioactive waste disposal workers’ radiation...
Speaking in Tongues
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba, which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter; I...
The Ultimate Experiment
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
The Third Wheel
Grey skies, grey bay - it’s a new day It’s sirene: the wind has not been keen
This Date in UCSF History: Birth Control Aborted in United States
[ Originally published in Synapse on October 4, 1990.] Americans have fewer choices in practicing birth control than people in...
Once I Climbed a Hill
Once I climbed a hill And looked down with triumph at what I had done. I saw sands stretched long...
This Date In UCSF History: Necessary Dialogue
[ Originally published in Synapse on September 29, 1993.] A campus forum on “Interracial Racism,” held Sept. 21 in Toland...
Inside Voice
[Camille Moore’s story earned first prize winner in the storytelling contest fiction category.] It was all mixed up inside of...
This Date in UCSF History: Professors Stir Drug Debate
[Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 1990.] A high-level state advisory panel, including four UCSF faculty members, ignited the...
To Be Laid Out
Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...
This Date in UCSF History: A Visit to Ground Zero
Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 2001. [Editor’s Note: Joshua Gordon is an alumnus of UCSF, who received his...
This Date in UCSF History: Cuts and Fee Increase
[Originally published in Synapse on September 9, 2004.] The University of California sustained its fourth budget cut in a row...
This Date in UCSF History: The real Jane Roe
Originally published on May 31, 1990. A small woman wearing blue jeans and tennis shoes stood nervously before a crowd...
Looking for a Sign
“We took out a mass from your colon. We think it’s cancer. The good news is we think we got...