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UCSF Students Stage Die-In To Honor Dead Palestinian Healthcare Workers
On Oct. 8, dozens of UCSF students wearing scrubs, white coats, lab coats and stethoscopes, laid motionless across the forecourt...
This Date in UCSF History: What is ‘Occupy’ Achieving?
[Originally published in Synapse on November 3, 2011.] Two months ago, demonstrators began showing up at Wall Street to protest...
This Date in UCSF History: Q&A With Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic Pharmacist
[Originally published in Synapse on October 14, 1993.] Greg Hayner, PharmD (UCSF class of ‘77), has been working at the...
This Date in UCSF History: Latinos are Central to U.S. History
[Originally published in Synapse on October 9, 2008.] Members of the UCSF community gathered in an auditorium last week, chowed...
This Date in UCSF History: Vitamin C a Cure for Addiction?
[Originally published in Synapse on October 3, 1977.] For the past decade, vitamin C has been touted for the cure...
This Date in UCSF History: Student-Teachers Demand Full Employee Rights
[Originally published in Synapse on September 22, 1988.] Our colleges and universities have come under highly critical consideration of late...
This Date in UCSF History: Split from Weapons Lab
[Originally published in Synapse on September 24, 1987.] On Sept. 12, the University of California Student Association voted overwhelmingly to...
Lovely, Dark and Deep: Storytelling Contest Winners Offer Array of Talent
The 2024 Synapse Storytelling Contest submissions surpassed all expectations — from gorgeous landscape photography to heartrending personal essays, from campy...
This Date in UCSF History: A Night at the Opera
[Originally published in Synapse on Sept. 14, 1989.] Friday evening Sept. 8 was opening night at the San Francisco Opera...