NEWS

A University of San
Francisco
School of Nursing immersion trip to San Lucas Mission in Guatemala to provide
prenatal care quickly became a disaster relief effort after Tropical Storm
Agatha came ashore May 29, turning roads into rivers, causing landslides, and
killing dozens.

Judith
Karshmer, dean of the University of San Francisco School of Nursing, has been
elected president of the California Association of Colleges of Nursing.

When a roadside bomb exploded a Humvee in his convoy in Iraq,
U.S. Army Private Richard Hackett was quick to apply the basic first-aid he’d
been taught.

Jennifer E. Turpin, University of San Francisco dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences since 2003, has been selected as the university’s
next provost.