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Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 13:35

Throwback Thursday: Women Ahead of Their Time

By Nhat Bui

On this day 23 years ago, Synapse featured master’s and doctoral nursing students receiving prestigious research awards, scholarships and recognition for their studies and exemplar work in the field of nursing.

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Thursday, November 5, 2015 - 12:04

Throwback Thursday: The 'M' Word

By Nhat Bui

On this day in 1998, in the seemingly not-so-distant UC past, the Synapse front page read, “One Year After Merger, UCSF Stanford Faces Unexpected Problem”.

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Aerial view of UCSF parnassus campus in 1980.
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Thursday, October 22, 2015 - 18:10

Throwback Thursday: UC Tutition Troubles

By Nhat Bui
Today, we have grown accustomed to fees increasing on an annual basis, to perpetual meetings with UC officials, and to student groups protesting against the outrageous cost of public education, a commodity that was once free to all Californians.
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Thursday, October 8, 2015 - 09:46

Throwback Thursday: Revolutions Old and New

By Nhat Bui

Fifty years ago in 1965, a headline on the front page of Synapse read, “Revolution, Response: Viet Program Here.” On this day, the UC Medical Center (UCMC) presented an international symposium titled Revolution and Response in the Millberry Union

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Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 00:00

Throwback Thursday: Women across UCSF History

By Nhat Bui
On this day in 1987, Dr. Dorothy Ford Bainton became the UCSF School of Medicine's first woman chair of the Department of Pathology. She was the first woman to chair a department in the school since its founding as Toland Medical College in 1864.
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