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

Originally published in Synapse on May 21, 1998. Waking up to the annoying alarm I've used for the last four years, this morning felt no different than any other. Accustomed to my usual morning ...

Ziqian Feng is a Graduate Student in the Health Data Science program.

Originally published in Synapse on May 7, 1981. In calling for a national day of protest against the arms race on May 10, the new Women’s Party for Survival is returning to Mother’s Day its original ...

Every three seconds, someone in the world develops dementia. More than 55 million people worldwide are currently living with dementia, including an estimated 6.7 million adults living with Alzheimer’s ...

During my years as a researcher at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), I never stopped to think about our funding. Usually, that is the responsibility of our trustee leader, the ...

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life distinctions, what Povinelli calls geontology, in ...

Imagine you or a loved one missing school every month simply because they didn't have access to menstrual hygiene products to manage the blood from their vagina monthly. For millions of girls across ...

Originally published in Synapse on May 26, 1988. Case: A 29 year-old Salvadoran woman, mother of three, is unable to speak about her experiences in El Salvador. She has been in San Francisco for three ...

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