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 ...

When the waiting caught on fire the world rages Agitation No amount is the right amount When the burning turns into ashes hopelessness weighs heavy Void There is not ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.” ― Carter G. Woodson What better time and opportunity ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's note: Presenting Iva Petrovchich's winning entry in the 2018 Synapse Storytelling Contest's science writing category. Category judge, San Francisco Chronicle science writer Erin Allday, says, ...