
Speaking in Tongues
The first word I ever spoke was Farsi: Baba , which means father. It makes for an interesting conversation starter...
[Camille Moore’s story earned first prize winner in the storytelling contest fiction category.] It was all mixed up inside of...
[Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 1990.] A high-level state advisory panel, including four UCSF faculty members, ignited the...
Nina Djukic’s story won first prize in the Synapse storytelling contest nonfiction category. There are things we cannot know until...
Originally published in Synapse on September 20, 2001. [Editor’s Note: Joshua Gordon is an alumnus of UCSF, who received his...
[Originally published in Synapse on September 9, 2004.] The University of California sustained its fourth budget cut in a row...