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The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s ...

The phenomenon of Cinco de Mayo 1862 is classic in the sense that the defeat of puppet regimes of colonial powers by people’s ...

How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple days. The innocent days. The almost-worry-free days. The habit burger late night runs. The ...

This coming week is the celebration of Cinco de Mayo and La Semana de la Raza, an event annually sponsored by CHE (Chicanos in Health Education) here at UCSF. Someone new to UCSF might reasonably ask, ...

What’s lost in the translation from writer to physician? My life as an undergraduate was very different — as a... [Originally published in Synapse on April 29, 1997.] There is nothing like springtime ...

I took the photo on the right in the tunnel at Sutro Baths in San Francisco in October 2016 when I was 16 and a senior in high school. I had not yet applied to college and had no idea what my future ...

A corn maze sounds like a fun Halloween activity on a crisp fall day, but during an October heat wave these two were unimpressed by corn or pumpkins and decided to sit in the shade. Their wardrobe ...

In a world of concrete and steel, A lone half-sedan doth repose, Amidst the urban ballet’s grand reveal, Where metallic rings and signage poles impose. Synapse is the UCSF student newspaper. We seek ...

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 ...