Woodson, an African American historian with a PhD from Harvard, initially dubbed it, “Negro History Week” and picked February ...

This is the mind’s game behind polarization in humans: our opinions are often less about truth and more about identity.

The patient’s blurry vision reminded me that the eye is more than a window into the body; it is a mirror reflecting the system itself. In the words of Charlotte Bronte, “the soul, fortunately, has an ...

In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper. What years did you serve as EIC? I served as Editor-in-Chief from 2008-2009. Why did you want to serve as EIC? I have ...

President Barack Obama moved last week to reverse a U.S. policy restricting international abortion-related services. A policy known as the “Mexico City Policy” or the “Global Gag Rule” banned USAID ...

In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper. I graduated from UCSF in 2005, completed my anesthesia residency at UC Davis, and have worked in private practice in Las ...

Synapse arrived not as a rebel publication but as an act of institutional optimism. UCSF was already nearly a century old, yet still in the process of imagining itself as a coherent campus rather than ...

In this 2003 conversation, founder Don Swatman recounts how the paper began as a modest, typewritten project in the Dental School and slowly expanded into a campus-wide forum. Interviewed by Mark ...

In this series, past editors-in-chief reflect on their time leading the paper. I was a member of the Synapse editorial board from 1982 to 1985, serving for three years as the editor -in-chief. In ...