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Students Confounded by Sudden Change in Healthcare Provider Service
Last February, UCSF students received emails about their health coverage that left them stunned, and raised more questions than answers.
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Better Late Than Never
Welcome to our fashionably late New Year’s resolution article. Because who needs January to start fresh?
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Craft Making Meets Science At Artisan Guild Market
What does craft making and science have in common? Quite a bit if made by members of the UCSF community.
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Hitchcock’s ‘Vertigo’: a Masterful, Timeless Thriller (set in San Francisco!)
Call me old-school, but I love going to the cinemas. From as young as I can remember, my mom would...
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UCSF Healthcare Workers Stage Walkout for Gaza
More than 400 UCSF-affiliated students, faculty, community members and healthcare workers — many wearing scrubs and white coats — held...
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UCSF Hosts First Ever 'Zine' Fair
If you’re one of those people who walks into an independent bookstore and goes straight to the “Zine” section, you...
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Wormnado Takes UCSF Postdoc Slam 2023 by Storm
A riveting story told with humor and heart about the social behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans — affectionately known as worms...
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Welcome Back!
Welcome back to Synapse’s 68th year of publication! In the past year, UCSF has slowly moved towards a new normal...
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How Real Is ‘The Last of Us’? UCSF Fungus Expert Weighs In
The blockbuster HBO show, The Last of Us, uses an intriguing premise to explain the world’s post-apocalyptic setting: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis...