

Students Urge UCSF to Integrate Diversity Efforts
Student organizers urged the university to take more of a lead and to integrate diversity initiatives campus-wide during last month’s...

Get Outdoors
Unless you have a dog who takes you for daily walks around the block, you may not be getting outside...

Recipe for A PhD Student Thesis
Serves: 1 Thesis Committee Time: 4-7 years Just when you thought you had exhausted the quarantine home cookbook, here is...

Join Us in 2021
Synapse is thrilled to welcome Victoria Turner as our new co-Editor in Chief. She will be sharing the role with...

Stranger in a Strange Mind
“What would it feel like if someone else were to come into your head?” An epilepsy patient posed this question...

The Power of Overlearning
When you want to learn something new, the first order of business is practice. After putting in some effort, you...

UCSF Labs Are Hard At Work
From tracing viral spread to fast tracking drugs to studying infected cells, labs on UCSF’s Mission Bay campus have been...

UCSF Students Create COVID-19 Fact Check Website
In an era of fake news, it’s important to find the facts. This can become more complicated when there are...

Wet Market Crackdown
Wet markets have been in the headlines since the start of the COVID-19 outbreak. Many initial cases were traced back...