This Date in UCSF History: Memorial Campaign to End Gun Violence April 4, 2023SynapseOn August 26, 1999 Robert Sadler, a UCSF postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, was shot and... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: New Studies Stress the Seriousness of Climate Change March 28, 2023Synapse[Originally reported in Synapse on March 20, 2009.] Two reports issued in February underlined the growing menace of climate change... Science
This Date in UCSF History: Students Act Against Impending War March 21, 2023Synapse[Originally published on March 20, 2003.] In a political climate charged with the suddenly tangible threat of war with Iraq... Social Justice
This Date in USCF History: Pregnancy Equity March 13, 2023Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on March 11, 1987.] A recent Supreme Court decision upholding certain types of pregnancy leave and... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: Plan B vs. RU486 March 7, 2023Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on March 8, 2007.] As contraception and abortion remain hot topics in the news, there is...
This Date in UCSF History: Vietnam’s Elusive Truth February 27, 2023Synapse[ Originally authored in February 25, 1988 by Toan Truong as a third-year medical student.] I grew up in Saigon... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: A Purpose Revisited February 20, 2023Synapse[Originally published on February 20, 2009.] Last month we honored the birth of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King... Social Justice
This Date in UCSF History: It’s V-Day, Not D-Day February 14, 2023Synapse[Originally published in Synapse on February 14, 2011.] Ah, another Valentine’s Day... and I, for one, will be spending it... Opinion
This Date in UCSF History: A Dark State of the Union February 7, 2023Synapse[Originally published on February 6, 2003.] It was the most somber evening, against all the “show biz” traditions of the...