Originally published on September 21, 1995. Among the books that have influenced my thinking are A Handmaid’s Tale and 1984. They both model the future and warn us to be vigilant about how our world ...

[First place winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] The experience of dying can vary greatly. Some see a light at the end of a tunnel. Others recollect all their life events.

On August 24, the Birdwatching Club (BWC) at UCSF embarked on its inaugural birding adventure at Las Gallinas Ponds in San Rafael, CA. This event marks a significant milestone for BWC, which seeks to ...

Looking for new ways to destress from studying, experiments, clinicals, or grant writing? Try the UCSF climbing club! The UCSF climbing club hosts climbing socials from 6 to 8 p.m. at Dogpatch ...

Treaded a path into the dark, and made you walk over the eggshells. You lit your candle of faith, believing in discipline and ...

Without structural change, midwifery will remain a privilege instead of a right. Reform must happen on two fronts: hospitals ...

Senate Bill 879, the Montoya Health Service Scholarship Incentive Act, was introduced by state Sen. Joseph Montoya, D-Los ...

On Thursday, July 10, Kiggundu Rodney, a Ugandan visual artist and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at UCSF’s ...

The new website is scheduled to launch on Sept. 12, 2012. The next issue of Synapse will be on the newsstands on Sept. 20. While the newspaper will continue to be published every Thursday after that ...

In 1956, Don Swatman, a first year UCSF dental student at the time, started this beloved student newspaper with single 8.5 x 11 in. pieces of paper and a typewriter. Over the years, Synapse grew into ...

Imagine this: It’s your first semester of college — just one month in — and you suddenly can’t reach your family or friends. A devastating storm has hit your home in Puerto Rico, and for days, you’re ...