Melanie Tervalon Daumont

Melanie Tervalon Daumont

This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: Fiery Med Grad Speech Highlights Failings

[Originally published on June 5, 1980.] Speaking before faculty, jubilant graduates and proud families, Melanie Daumont criticized medical education for perpetuating racism, sexism and classism and transforming socially conscious medical students into conservative, insensitive physicians.

May 30, 2023

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Health professionals in illustration.

This Date in UCSF History: Too Many Specialists, Too Little Diversity in Health Professions

May 23, 2023

[Originally published on May 22, 1997.] A report by UCSF researchers released last week says there are too many specialists...

Khmer rouge.

This Date in UCSF History: Beyond Vietnam

May 16, 2023

[Written by Dr. Toan Truong while interning in medicine at UCSF and published in Synapse on May 17, 1990.] The...

Lyme ticks.

This Date in UCSF History: May is Lyme Tick Disease Month

May 9, 2023

[Originally published on May 9, 2009.] Lyme tick disease is a cruel illness, brought on by the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi...

Sketch of May Day riots 1886.

This Date in UCSF History: Celebrate International Workers Day

May 2, 2023

[Originally published in Synapse on May 1, 1975.] A U.S.-made calendar will show that today is Loyalty Day, a time...

Crowd gathered at a 1990 Earth Day event.

This Date in UCSF History: The Decade of the Environment

April 25, 2023

[Originally published on April 22, 1990.] April 22, 1990 is Earth Day, an event promoting global ecological awareness. On that...

Crop spraying.

This Date in UCSF History: Poisoning the People

April 18, 2023

[Originally published in Synapse on April 13, 1978.] The U.S. Department of Agriculture admitted that, in conjunction with the Mexican...

Robert Kennedy and Richard Nixon

This Day in UCSF History: Nixon v. Kennedy

April 11, 2023

[Originally published in Synapse on April 13, 1968.] I supported Eugene McCarthy. I am now committed to Mr. Kennedy.

Stethoscope shaped like a pistol.

This Date in UCSF History: Memorial Campaign to End Gun Violence

April 4, 2023

On August 26, 1999 Robert Sadler, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, was shot and...

2009 climate change summit panel.

This Date in UCSF History: New Studies Stress the Seriousness of Climate Change

March 28, 2023

[Originally reported in Synapse on March 20, 2009.] Two reports issued in February underlined the growing menace of climate change...