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San Quentin Prison.
This Date in UCSF History

This Date in UCSF History: Six Days in San Quentin

[Originally authored by medical student Eric Chow and published in Synapse on November 20, 1998.] After a five-minute walk, I finally reached San Quentin’s main entrance and was now set to enter the prison proper.
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Synapse: February 8, 1990

February 2, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
Today, those needing a bone-marrow transplant are likely to be able to find a reasonably well-matched, nonrelated donor. This is...
Nature
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Synapse: January 19, 1995

January 20, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
The ongoing Ebola crisis in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone has been by far the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history...
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Synapse: January 10, 1980

January 9, 2015
Taylor LaFlam
Concerns about the increasing frequency of C-sections is nothing new. Thirty-five years ago, Michael Bader reported on this trend in...
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Synapse: December 7, 1964

December 7, 2014
Taylor LaFlam
Today, a visitor to UC Berkeley can see a campus full of people recruiting, promoting, soliciting, tabling, proselytizing and otherwise...
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Synapse: November 16, 1989

November 19, 2014
Taylor LaFlam
To many students at UCSF today, Mount Zion is simply another campus, but until 25 years ago it was wholly...
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Synapse: November 8, 1984

November 5, 2014
Taylor LaFlam
Today, the most prominent divestment movement at UCSF is to withdraw from fossil-fuel companies. A generation ago, it was divestment...
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Synapse: October 17, 1974

October 21, 2014
Taylor LaFlam
"Technology and science, once worshipped as the gods of our secular society, have lately been found wanting. People are wondering...
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Synapse: September 17, 1964

September 25, 2014
Taylor LaFlam
The brief article “Medical Student Wives to Greet Newcomers” catches the eye for its reflection of a markedly changed student...
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