Miliotis, a PhD student in the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG) Program, beat out 10 finalists at Byers ...

Third-year medical students at UCSF recently spent a week discussing challenging cases they had encountered during their first six months in clinical training. The focus for the week was health care ...

When the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa refused to heed the call from the international community to end its racist, immoral and illegal treatment of Black South Africans, the global ...

Human rights activists have been shocked down to their core as they received proof of the Chinese government’s horrific removal and trafficking of detained Uyghur Muslims’ organs. The investigation ...

Editor's note: Presenting Iva Petrovchich's winning entry in the 2018 Synapse Storytelling Contest's science writing category. Category judge, San Francisco Chronicle science writer Erin Allday, says, ...

This is part 3 of the limited series on the celebrated haute couture designer, Christian Dior. Christian Dior presented his first haute couture collection, named “Corolle,” in February 1947 at 30 ...

After years of internal debate, I finally got my first tattoo. He’s a small lizard, with a topological map design inside, scaling the outer edge of my left ankle. His fine lines and tasteful detail ...

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” ― Carter G. Woodson What better time and opportunity ...

I have not watched the George Floyd video. In fact, I have not watched the Ahmaud Aubrey, Eric Garner, or any of the other recordings of police brutality. I do not need to watch the video to know what ...

Originally published in Synapse on March 3, 1983. In what may be a landmark case for women and minorities in residency training programs was decided in San Francisco last month. Dr. Ramona Tascoe, a ...

With fall in full swing and Thanksgiving just around the corner, it seems an apt time to address a question that arises all too often in the grocery store and at the dinner table: what’s the ...