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

Consider aging as three overlapping progressions: the accumulation of risk, aging as deterioration, and aging as renewal. Aging disrupts life/non-life... [Originally published in Synapse on May 26, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why is the Western scientist always clothed? What would happen if science was conducted, metaphorically, in the nude? Thinking through this thought-experiment can lead us to a number of answers.

The 14-story, mixed-use building spearheaded by UC College of the Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF and formerly called UC Hastings) replaces Snodgrass Hall and will include 230 units of housing for ...

Nina Escueta is a second year student in the UCSF School of Medicine.