The blockbuster HBO show, The Last of Us, uses an intriguing premise to explain the world’s post-apocalyptic setting: Ophiocordyceps unilateralis — aka the “zombie-ant fungus” — has jumped from insects to humans. The fungus takes over a host’s

Ankur Paliwal: Why inclusivity is better in science and journalism

Apr 25th, 2023 36m 48s

Ankur Paliwal joined a few dozen UCSF student during Synapse’s the fifth annual science speaker series on April 13. He’s an independent journalist who writes about science, inequity and LGBTQIA+ persons, and has reported from India, Kenya, Tanz

Talking DEI with Sonoma State University nursing professor, Dr. Anna Valdez

Nov 22nd, 2022 49m 57s

Juli Riggs, a second year graduate student in the Biomedical Sciences program, talked to Dr. Anna Maria Valdez, professor and chair of nursing at Sonoma State University, about her DEI work and her responses to the comments below that she routi

Coffee chat with New York Times science writer Nicholas St. Fleur

Jul 20th, 2022 1h 2m

Synapse: UCSF Student Voices is proud to present the fourth annual science speaker series with an award-winning science journalist and children’s STEM author based in Long Island, New York. To watch the video recording of this event, go to http

To Mask or Not To Mask? Dr. Bob Wachter Weighs In

Jul 20th, 2022 20m 22s

Dr. Bob Wachter, UCSF’s Chair of the Department of Medicine, gained a vast twitter following during the COVID pandemic with his informative, direct, and sometimes personal tweets. He’s kept his followers up to speed throughout changes in the sc

UCSF's Dr. Jeanne Noble Explains Anti-Mask Mandate Petition

Feb 16th, 2022 26m 35s

In January 2022, four UCSF health providers wrote an open letter urging California Gov. Gavin Newsom to drop mask mandates. Among them was Dr. Jeanne Noble, an associate professor of emergency medicine at UCSF. In this episode, Janice Goh, a fo

Q&A Wirth UCSF Alumna & Poet Jenny Qi

Dec 14th, 2021 15m 40s

In this episode, Synapse editor-in-chief Victoria Turner has the pleasure of chatting with Jenny Qi, a 2017 PhD graduate from the Biomedical Sciences Program at UCSF and a former Synapse editor-in-chief. She now works at a competitive intellige

Meet the Co-Presidents of UCSF Med Students for Choice

Dec 14th, 2021 15m 56s

Pre-med student and Synapse contributor Sarah Siddiqui talks to UCSF second year medical students and co-presidents of Med Students For Choice, Neha Pondicherry and Meredith Klashman, about the fight for reproductive justice at a time when wome

Coffee Chat with Esther Landhuis

May 20th, 2021 54m 44s

Science journalist Esther Landhuis joins Synapse's editors-in-chief Victoria Turner and Jihee Yoon along with UCSF students for a discussion about her transition from scientist to science writing.

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