Originally published in Synapse on September 25, 1986. In a dramatic reversal of last year’s disappointing showing, the School of Medicine enrolled 39 underrepresented minority students this fall. The ...

Changes need to be made not only for the Barbies, but for Kens as well. Toxic masculinity is dominating the social media of ...

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 ...

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 ...

You thought you’d never survive this. But, darling, a radiant sun awaits to see you rise. You felt as though everything had shattered. Yet, in truth, the foundation was quietly being laid off. You ...

On Thursday, July 10, Kiggundu Rodney, a Ugandan visual artist and an Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at UCSF’s Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), hosted guests at the Memory and Aging ...