This Date in UCSF History: Back From Iraq
Originally published in Synapse on 14 April 14, 2005. Dr. Robert Dean served for 12 months as an Army surgeon in Iraq.
This Date in UCSF History: Memorial Campaign to End Gun Violence
On August 26, 1999 Robert Sadler, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, was shot and...
This Date in UCSF History: New Studies Stress the Seriousness of Climate Change
[Originally reported in Synapse on March 20, 2009.] Two reports issued in February underlined the growing menace of climate change...
This Date in UCSF History: Students Act Against Impending War
[Originally published on March 20, 2003.] In a political climate charged with the suddenly tangible threat of war with Iraq...
This Date in USCF History: Pregnancy Equity
[Originally published in Synapse on March 11, 1987.] A recent Supreme Court decision upholding certain types of pregnancy leave and...
This Date in UCSF History: Vietnam’s Elusive Truth
[ Originally authored in February 25, 1988 by Toan Truong as a third-year medical student.] I grew up in Saigon...
This Date in UCSF History: A Purpose Revisited
[Originally published on February 20, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King...
This Date in UCSF History: It’s V-Day, Not D-Day
[Originally published in Synapse on February 14, 2011.] Ah, another Valentine’s Day... and I, for one, will be spending it...
This Date in UCSF History: Fighting for Civil Rights
[Originally published in Synapse on February 1, 1979.] President Carter in his State of the Union address Wednesday, called for...
This Date in UCSF History: How Do You Celebrate Lunar New Year?
(Originally published on January 31, 1989.) ThuyMinhDo, Third-year pharmacy student: If I was home, the house would be festive, with...