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This Date in UCSF History: Refugees Counsel Compatriots

[Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988.] Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to speak about her experiences in El Salvador. She has been in San Francisco for three years and is currently eligible for temporary residency under amnesty laws.

May 27, 2025

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This Date in UCSF History: Artist Asks, Who Are You?

January 18, 2021

Originally published on January 19, 2012. This year’s keynote speaker for Martin Luther King Week at UCSF was Kip Fulbeck...

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This Date in UCSF History: Finally... A New President

January 11, 2021

Originally published in Synapse on January 11, 2001. “Tonight, for the sake of our unity as a people and the...

This Year in UCSF History: Peering Into the Future

December 11, 2020

Originally published in Synapse on December 11, 2009. Everybody wants to know the future and the UC Regents and UCOP...

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This Date in UCSF History: Election Offers Mixed Bag of Results

November 25, 2020

Originally published in Synapse on Nov. 30, 2006. Tobacco tax propositions in California, Missouri and South Dakota failed in the...

This Date in UCSF History: On Intersectionality

October 25, 2020

Originally published on October 25, 2012. On my Saturday afternoon walk across San Francisco, I ran into Abel, a young...

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This Date in UCSF History: Drug Peddling On Campus

October 18, 2020

Space in Moffitt Hospital’s cafeterias is now being rented to drug companies for display and advertisement of their products. On...

This Date in UCSF History: UCSF to begin heart transplants

September 28, 2020

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

This Date in UCSF History: Social Disparities are Hazardous to Health

September 21, 2020

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

This Date in UCSF History: Regents End Affirmative Action, Resistance Planned

September 8, 2020

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