The Ultimate Experiment
[Editor's note: This submission won second place in the Synapse storytelling contest fiction category.] Three brothers had been killed that...
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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...
This Date in UCSF History: Keep abortions safe and legal
[Originally published in Synapse on May 24, 1981.] Abortion is under attack, again, in what may prove to be the...
GAD
She went to the doctor today And we told her she was sick She didn’t need a visit to know...
Work-Life Balance
When I came across this coffee cup balanced perfectly and precariously on a hallway railing in Zuckerberg San Francisco General...