College of Arts and Sciences News

In 2014, Merak Melikian Hatounian transferred to USF from a community college near his home in Southern California. He loved his new school: the beautiful campus, the location in the city, friends and classmates.

The St. Anthony Foundation in San Francisco’s Tenderloin neighborhood feeds more than 1,000 people each day. It also offers a health clinic, a clothing program, a technology center, and job training — in several buildings across its city campus.

Wearing waders and creeping through waist-high pond water is just part of the job for Allison Bogisich MS ’19.

In the first commencement ceremony held on campus since 2019, 950 new alumni collected their diplomas in St. Ignatius Church. Here, eight of them thank their supporters, reflect on their time at USF, and say what’s next.

When Ryan Lopez ’25 first saw the Hilltop eight years ago, he resolved to go to college — at USF.

When NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is launched into space on Dec. 18, 59 days in the future, Aaron Yung ’14 will get to see 13 billon years into the past.