This submission earned Nina Escueta the first place winner of the Storytelling Contest's creative writing category. Mangoes, ripe and green...

Originally reported in Synapse on September 29, 1988. UCSF will begin conducting heart transplants this fall, Dr. Haile Debas, chairman...

This story was originally published in Synapse on September 21, 2000. Dr. David Satcher, the sixteenth U.S. surgeon general and...

When you want to learn something new, the first order of business is practice. After putting in some effort, you...

Originally published in Synapse on September 14, 1995. On July 20 the UC Regents voted on a resolution to prohibit...

Originally published in Synapse on June 3, 2010. Top Hat, Junk Shot, Top Kill - the phrases seem like they...

Originally published in Synapse on May 25, 2006. Written by Biana Roykh. Spring means graduation here at UCSF, and all...

What are you doing during the COVID-19 isolation order? Our household is busy with homeschooling two school-aged children, along with...

What are you doing during the COVID-19 isolation order? COVID-19 outbreak has changed our lives rapidly and drastically, but it...

Originally published in Synapse on May 12, 1988. Dr. Isabel Estrada is a Guatemalan pediatrician who has lived in exile...

What are you doing during the COVID-19 isolation order? Catching up with old friends, playing Board Game Arena with classmates...

This submission by Lena Alazzeh entry won second prize in the 2019 Synapse Storytelling Contest photography category. They always tell...

What are you doing during the COVID isolation order? COVD seems to have hit everyone differently. During this isolation I've...

I took art lessons growing up, but didn't start loving it and creating meaningful pieces of my own until college...

Originally published in Synapse on April 17, 2003. An international team of investigators, including UCSF’s Joseph DeRisi and researchers at...