Signed: A humbled and inspired medical student, learning to listen with both ears and heart. Saffanat Sumra is a student in the School of Medicine.

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 ...

Young girls are seeing more Barbie dolls on shelves with careers ranging from scientists, future leaders, and astronauts, and imagining a world where they can be limitless in possibilities. However, ...

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 Non Fiction category. America: a country that brags about its technology and medical advancements all the while allowing Black mothers to die.

[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.

Originally published in Synapse on September 19, 1985. In the next few days, Gov. George Deukmejian will decide the fate of a bill which would create a state health service corps. The corps would ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...