[Originally published in Synapse on Oct. 10, 2017.] 

New science education standards approved by the...

Is this the end?  

At home, the war awaits me 

[Second place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for non fiction.] S: Subjective. “June” is...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest for poetry.] Even now, the wake

I forget the...

Young girls are seeing more Barbie dolls on shelves with careers ranging from scientists, future...

[Originally published in Synapse on September 25, 1986.]

In a dramatic reversal of last year’s...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying...

On August 24, the Birdwatching Club (BWC) at UCSF embarked on its inaugural birding adventure at Las...

[Originally published on September 21, 1995.] Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A...

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