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Cardiac Camp

Sparking Hearts and Minds

April 15, 2025
Nirosh E. Mataraarachchi

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay...

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Ku Klux Klan rally in Washington DC.

This Date in UCSF History: Fighting the Klan

April 15, 2025
Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981.] Last Saturday, International Committee Against...

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Food Insecurity: Gnawing at Your Mind

April 8, 2025
Sydney Howell

What comes to mind when thinking about the word ‘hunger’? Maybe you pictured an empty fridge, a...

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Wedding Vows

April 8, 2025
Francesco Dalla Ricca

This poem is an adaptation of my wedding vows

As the time together has grown
And it became clear that...

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This Date in UCSF History: Science or Control?

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Synapse

[Originally published in Synapse on April 12, 1974.] in Dr. Louis Jolyon West, Director of the...

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$10 per Dozen Eggs? Those are Rookie Numbers

April 1, 2025
Drew Despereaux

I was at the grocery store to get cake ingredients, and I saw that the egg aisle was near...

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This Date in UCSF History: When Sweets Turn Sour

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[Originally published in Synapse on April 1, 1993.]

An April Fool’s tale. For countless years now...

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It’s an Extraordinary Afternoon

April 1, 2025
Ziqian Feng

It’s an extraordinary afternoon

And I made my sleepy tea at 4

 

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Forced Displacement of Gaza Strip Residents During the Gaza-Israel War 23-25.

Talking About Palestine is an Exercise in Public Health

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For the past 17 months, we have witnessed in real-time how a genocide unfolds and what the essential...

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