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San Quentin Prison.

This Date in UCSF History: Six Days in San Quentin

November 28, 2023
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[Originally authored by medical student Eric Chow and published in Synapse on November 20, 1998.] After a five-minute walk, I...
Student Life
A crowd gathered with banners proclaiming support for the Palestinian people.

UCSF Healthcare Workers Stage Walkout for Gaza

November 14, 2023
Synapse
More than 400 UCSF-affiliated students, faculty, community members and healthcare workers — many wearing scrubs and white coats — held...
News
Friends sitting around a Thanksgiving spread.

This Date in UCSF History: November Traditions

November 14, 2023
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[Originally authored by medical student Ashkay Govinder and published on Nov. 15, 2012.] I love cooking a traditional Thanksgiving meal...
Student Life
Map of Mexico

This Date in UCSF History: Practicing Medicine Under Hardship

October 31, 2023
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[Originally written by medical student Amy Ewing and published in Synapse on Nov. 6, 1997.] Last year I arranged to...
Student Life
Food on altar.

This Date in UCSF History: Celebrating the Day of the Dead

October 31, 2023
Synapse
[Originally authored by pharmacy student Oliver Übeda and published in Synapse on November 1, 2012.] The ritual of Día de...
Arts & Culture
Two Chinese dissident students circa 1989.

This Date in UCSF History: Students Granted Political Asylum

October 24, 2023
Synapse
[First published in synapse on October 22, 1989] Two Chinese dissident students, Hoy Yu Vi, 27, and Luo Jian Guang...
Social Justice
J. Michael Bishop and Harold E. Varmus.

This Date in UCSF History: Profs Win Nobel Prize

October 17, 2023
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Originally published on October 12, 1989. It was in 1976 that Varmus and Bishop first reported that certain genes which...
Woman in a field.

This Date in UCSF History: Freedom From Fear

October 10, 2023
Synapse
Originally written on Oct. 4, 2001, by Suzanne Rafidi while a student in the School of Medicine. I am an...
Edison Uno

This Date in UCSF History: Plaque Honors Human Rights Hero

October 3, 2023
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[ Originally published in Synapse on October 2, 1980.]
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