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 ...

Seventy years on, the paper’s through-line is not a single political position, but a commitment to voice: to documenting how students experience power, responsibility, and care in real time. In that ...

In 1956, Don Swatman from the School of Dentistry founded Synapse as a student newspaper. What began as a small operation mostly specific to the dental school quickly grew. With the added support of ...

I recall my time as Editor-in-Chief at Synapse as a major highlight of my first two years of medical school (1979-1981). At ...

[Second place winner in the Synapse Storytelling Contest Fiction category.] It’s been seven something months since you finished your first year of graduate school. Second year! How blissful…right? You ...

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 ...

It’s been one of those days. You lock yourself out of your car. You get into an argument with a loved one. Your professor decides to assign an additional packet of readings over Thanksgiving break to ...

Oops I did it again! I found a lab this past year, But now, apparently, I’m supposed to do science. Finding a home at UCSF this past year was an incredible ...

The California Medical Association (CMA) convenes physicians from across the state annually at its House of Delegatesmeeting, represented by county medical society sections (such as San Francisco - ...

Were fleeting ghosts or if we should stay, I feel the weight of first love fray. I fear the feelings are bound to pass, Yet still I am, was, and stayed They seduce and they smile, they brood and they ...

Fables written centuries ago still echo in the present — quietly, powerfully — reminding us of what it means to be human. As we stand on the edge of an AI-powered future, with machines learning faster ...

The best I can do is light a candle. It is my grandmothers yahrzeit, after all.