This photo captures a fleeting moment during a brilliant sunset. In this instant between day and night, the sky is many shades of color ranging from the dark blue and gray of the clouds to the bright ...

The idea of good and evil is pervasive in most of society. From fairy tales to modern day media, we despise villains who wreak havoc and worship heroic protagonists who in turn defeat the evil and ...

Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program. She loves to explore the big questions in life and wishes to use her poetry as a channel for opening and community.

Originally published in Synapse on December 15, 1965. So much has been said about patriotism lately that your editor was motivated to do some searching in order to find what other Americans have said ...

Imagine this: You’ve just gone through an intense cycle of labor after a high-risk pregnancy involving a breech birth andlife-threatening complications. But thankfully, with the support of hospital ...

According to the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change service, 2024 is set to be yet another hottest year ever recorded. The same group of researchers also concluded that Earth’s average global ...

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 ...

I took this photo in Mumbai this summer, on my first trip to India. What surprised me most about Mumbai, more than the constant honking, or the sheer, teeming magnitude of the city, was its ...

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 ...

People say that because we were born on the other side, in the north, we are neither from here nor from there. Our colonizing Spanish is rusty and we are “gringas” like bidi bidi bom bom, and what can ...

There was a time when I thought everything in the future was predictable. Then, there came a time when I thought nothing was predictable. There was a time when I thought a career was everything. Then, ...

[Originally published in Synapse on May 28, 1999.] Five months ago, the Alliance of Middle Eastern Scientists and Physicians was... Synapse is the UCSF student newspaper. We seek to serve as a forum ...