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Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - 22:51

Interview with Dr. Dan Kelly, a UCSF infectious disease fellow working in Sierra Leone

By Yi Lu

With the Ebola crisis showing no signs of abating in western Africa, one of UCSF’s infectious disease fellows recently returned to Sierra Leone to assist the government as well as local health care workers in their efforts to stem the epidemic

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Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 12:48

Ishi: The Greatest Anthropological Treasure

By Yi Lu

In 1999, the UCSF Synapse published a short article about the continued efforts to repatriate the remains of Ishi, who spent the last years of his life on the Parnassus campus before dying in 1916.

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Thursday, January 30, 2014 - 12:31

Bridges Curriculum: Building the 21st-Century Physician

By Yi Lu

The staff at teaching hospitals such as UCSF Medical Center are accustomed to seeing third- and fourth-year medical students — with their bulging short white coats and unique air of eager ignorance — on the wards.

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Thursday, January 16, 2014 - 10:33

The Best Coffee — Home Brew Edition

By Yi Lu

Back in my high school, making coffee was simple. I had a small Mr. Coffee machine on the far corner of my desk, a gallon of generic bottled water under my chair and a bag of Maxwell Blend in my middle drawer.

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Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 15:49

Cuts to SNAP Benefits Threaten Food Security in UCSF’s Backyard

By Yi Lu

As UCSF students, staff and faculty make the final push toward winter vacations, many of us will be going to bed with gluttonous dreams of baked ham and Linzer cookies.

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