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Dr. David Smith
Synapse 70th Anniversary

Reflecting On The Launch Of The Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic

As a medical student, faculty frequently remind me that I am in a unique position. Medical students are unhindered by the restraints associated with paid institutional roles but empowered by our growing body of clinical knowledge and structural failures making our voices apt for advocacy.
March 3, 2026
Mallory Shingle
Mallory Shingle
School of Medicine
Medicine
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Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924.

The Operating Room as a Time Machine

February 24, 2026
Saffanat Sumra
For more than a century, the operating room has quietly recorded not only what surgical culture values, but also how...
Medicine
Jenny Qi

Saving Synapse

February 17, 2026
Jenny Qi
I first got involved with Synapse in 2012 and served as EIC 2014-15. Synapse meant a lot to me in...
Communication
70th anniversary edition front page

When Student Voices Refuse to Go Quiet

January 13, 2026
Mallory Shingle
[Note: This article appears in Synapse’s 70th anniversary print edition, produced to mark seven decades of student journalism at UCSF...
Communication
Picture of Synapse staff circa 1950s.

Back When It All Began: A Conversation with the Founder of ‘Synapse’

January 13, 2026
Synapse
In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental...
Communication
women reading Synapse

Seventy Years of Synapse: Learning to Question and Bearing Witness

January 13, 2026
Synapse
1956-57 Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism.
Communication

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