I am writing this the day after President Obama gave his State of the Union address to Congress. The most refreshing thing about that speech was how blunt he was with everyone in the room. He even ...

Surgery in UC Hospital operating room, 1924. This photograph from 1924, taken in one of the operating rooms at the University of California Hospital (present day UCSF), is spare and almost austere.

After the article was published, changes were made to the faculty guidelines for the BMS graduate program and student efforts ...

According to traditions thousands of years old, the Moon Festival is the time for family reunions. Loved ones sit together ...

I first got involved with Synapse in 2012 and served as EIC 2014-15. Synapse meant a lot to me in a time when I both needed a creative outlet and was figuring out what to do with my future outside of ...

Yet, the Benito bowl was not defined but struggle alone. It also made room for life. The wedding scene captured a truth often ...

Synapse is the UCSF student newspaper. We seek to serve as a forum for the campus community. Articles and columns represent the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the Board of ...

After construction lasting my entire time in the San Francisco Bay Area (and a couple years on top of it), the Van Ness Improvement Project was finally completed in the past spring in the heart of SF.

[First place Synapse Storytelling Contest Winner for photography.] Maestra Rocio Morales, a Zapotec healer and community leader mourns the dispossession of earth-based healing practices and ...

My apartment fire escape overlooks a corner portion of the UCSF Parnassus campus. The cluster of hospital buildings stands at a distance, a bit blurry but with a definite silhouette, a semblance to my ...