[Originally published on October 25, 2007.] Midway through my first year preceptorship, a particularly difficult patient interview taught me the...

Mirror Need I scream even with this coat, you refuse to see me. my sweet alto

[Originally published in Synapse on October 19, 2006.] What does the term “race” mean? Is it a social construct or...

[This submission earned Woodger Faugas first place in the Storytelling Contest personal essay category.] Imagine finding yourself: the center of...

[Originally published in Synapse on October 10, 1991.] UC Berkeley Professor Neil Gilbert’s article, “The Phantom Epidemic of Sexual Assault,”...

[First place for the Storytelling Contest photography category.] This picture was taken a few months before the 2020 US presidential...

The culmination of weeks of political farce comes on October 7, when California voters will vote on whether to recall...

[Victoria Turner’s submission won first place in the Storytelling Contest’s science writing category.] As the pressures and restrictions of 2020...

Originally published on September 27, 1973. In February, within weeks of the announcement of severe federal cutbacks in grant monies...

Ninad Bhat’s “Batteries” is the winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Creative Writing category. The poem introduces an everyday, offhand...

Originally published on September 22, 1994. This author, a graduate student who works for the Department of Otolaryngology in the...

The results are in! Our judges have awarded the 12 best submissions to the Synapse Storytelling Contest by talented UCSF...

Originally published on September 14, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled...

[Originally published on May 27, 1966.] The Committee for Independent Political Action, a recognized on-campus political organization, has announced plans...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 2006.] A young woman meaning to visit a Planned Parenthood clinic unwittingly entered...