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2009 climate change summit panel.

This Date in UCSF History: New Studies Stress the Seriousness of Climate Change

March 28, 2023
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[Originally reported in Synapse on March 20, 2009.] Two reports issued in February underlined the growing menace of climate change...
Science
Bush declares war on Iraq, March 19, 2003.

This Date in UCSF History: Students Act Against Impending War

March 21, 2023
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[Originally published on March 20, 2003.] In a political climate charged with the suddenly tangible threat of war with Iraq...
Social Justice
Graphic of pregnant office worker.

This Date in USCF History: Pregnancy Equity

March 13, 2023
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[Originally published in Synapse on March 11, 1987.] A recent Supreme Court decision upholding certain types of pregnancy leave and...
Social Justice
Illustration of hand holding pill.

This Date in UCSF History: Plan B vs. RU486

March 7, 2023
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[Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 2007.] As contraception and abortion remain hot topics in the news, there is...
Toan Truong

This Date in UCSF History: Vietnam’s Elusive Truth

February 27, 2023
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[Originally authored in February 25, 1988 by Toan Truong as a third-year medical student.] I grew up in Saigon in...
Social Justice
Composite of Martin Luther King jr., Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman and Barack Obama.

This Date in UCSF History: A Purpose Revisited

February 20, 2023
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[Originally published on February 20, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King...
Social Justice
Woman kissing cardboard cutout of a heart.

This Date in UCSF History: It’s V-Day, Not D-Day

February 14, 2023
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[Originally published in Synapse on February 14, 2011.] Ah, another Valentine’s Day... and I, for one, will be spending it...
Opinion
President George W. Bush

This Date in UCSF History: A Dark State of the Union

February 7, 2023
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[Originally published on February 6, 2003.] It was the most somber evening, against all the “show biz” traditions of the...
Alfred 'Skip' Robinson.

This Date in UCSF History: Fighting for Civil Rights

January 29, 2023
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[Originally published in Synapse on February 1, 1979.] President Carter in his State of the Union address Wednesday, called for...
Social Justice
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