Synapse: UCSF Student Voices

07/10/2026

🚨 The final countdown is on! 🚨
⏰ The Synapse Storytelling Contest closes at MIDNIGHT TONIGHT.
If you're a current UCSF student, there's still time to share your best work in:
📖 Fiction
✍️ Nonfiction
📝 Poetry
📸 Photography
🏆 Winning entries in each category get $250, $75 and $50 prizes
✨ Unlimited submissions
🎁 All entries published receiving a $25 gift card.
Don't spend tomorrow wishing you'd entered. Hit submit before the clock strikes midnight.
Find details and submit at: synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest-deadline-extended

07/06/2026

😬 Kicking yourself for missing the Synapse Storytelling Contest deadline?
Good news! The deadline has been extended to Friday, July 10! 🎉
Whether polishing a piece or just need one more push to hit "submit," we'd love to read your work.
UCSF students can submit unlimited entries in:
📖 Fiction
✍️ Nonfiction
📝 Poetry
📸 Photography
🏆 $2,000 in prizes
🎁 Published entries that don't place still receive a $25 gift card.
Join a proud tradition of student storytelling at UCSF.
Go to: synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest

07/03/2026

Spread the word! 🎉
Synapse's Storytelling Contest deadline is extended to July 10!
🏆 $2,000 in prizes
All entries published! Each gets a $25 gift card!
UCSF students can enter unlimited times in:
📖 Fiction
✍️ Nonfiction
📝 Poetry
📸 Photo
Learn more and enter at: synapse.ucsf.edu/synapse-storytelling-contest
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06/09/2026

⏰ Less than a month left to enter the Synapse Storytelling Contest!
Have you started writing yet? Drafted that poem? Edited that short story? Sorted through your best photos?
Calling all writers and photographers at UCSF: now is the time to submit your work. Students can enter UNLIMITED submissions in fiction, nonfiction, poetry and photography for a chance to win part of $2,000 in prizes (and, of course, bragging rights).
Even if you don't win, published contributors receive a $25 gift card, and your work could appear in Synapse throughout the 2026-27 academic year.
📅 Don't wait until the last minute.
📸 Start selecting your photos.
✍️ Start writing.
🏆 Start submitting.
Scan the QR code or visit synapse.ucsf.edu for contest details and submission guidelines.

01/28/2026

Share Your Perspective. We Are Listening. Take the UCSF Student Services Survey today and be entered to win a $500 gift card of the winner’s choosing or one of 20 $50 amazon gift cards. Survey closes February 4.

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01/13/2026

Fresh off the press! 📰
Synapse, UCSF’s student-run newspaper, is celebrating 70 years with a special printed anniversary edition.
Get your copy today at the following locations:

📍 Grab a copy at:
• Student Success Center
• Millberry Union Fitness Center
• UCSF Library
• Student Lounges (Dental, Pharmacy, PT, and Medicine)

10/04/2025

UCSF prides itself on our diverse student body to educate and inspire the world around us. With our dedication to the winner of the Synapse Storytelling Contest, Nonfiction category, let’s please honor Amanda Lipford’s amazing article, “From Mistrust to Empowerment: How Historical Medical Racism Drove Black Women Toward Midwifery and Home Births”. Congratulations, Amanda!

10/01/2025

Welcoming our 2025 editor-in-chief, Mallory Shingle! She’s a student at UCSF School of Medicine and we’re all very excited to see what she and the Synapse team have in store for us this year ❤️go Mallory!! 🥳

09/18/2025

Wrapping up our most viewed posts, part 3…*drumroll* at a grand 10,607 views… “Why You Laugh When It’s Not Even Funny”!! Thank you all for following our most popular Synapse articles and we look forward to new content being posted to share!!