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

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 ...

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 ...

That was the declared purpose of the first Mother’s Day, which was organized in Boston by poet and women’s suffragist Julia Ward Howe in 1872. Howe’s establishment of a special day for mothers — and ...

How do you say goodbye to a place with countless memories carved on its every corner. Those were the simple days. The innocent days. The almost-worry-free days. The habit burger late night runs. The ...

The environment one lives in directly impacts one’s health — common sense tells us this. If someone knowingly harms another’s health, clear grounds for reparations exist. What happens, then, if our ...

Originally published in Synapse on April 16, 1981. Last Saturday, International Committee Against Racism (InCAR) and Progressive Labor Party took a leading role in forcibly preventing a Ku Klux Klan ...

“The sound of electronic heartbeats echoed from room to room as high schoolers from all over the Bay, equipped with their own stethoscopes, leaned in, listening to the beats and murmurs of a manikin’s ...

For the past 17 months, we have witnessed in real-time how a genocide unfolds and what the essential components of it are. From watching livestream footage of splayed children’s bodies hanging on the ...