College of Arts and Sciences News

Forgot your lunch? Running short of funds? Stop by USF’s community garden at noon on any Thursday.

Jake Cosgrove couldn’t find a tech internship. So he sent an email.

Three San Francisco artists joined USF this year as visiting artist-scholars through the Ann Getty Institute of Art and Design.

The adjunct professor of neuroscience talks about equity, ethics, dreams, and his favorite spot in the city.

Paige Axness ’27 spent last semester drafting communications for the City of San Francisco’s Environment Department as a USF McCarthy fellow.

A team of USF students began the spring semester with a huge win: Their app, Globana, was named one of 2025’s Most Disruptive Business School Startups by business school news outlet Poets & Quants.  

Professor Monica West discusses her role as a thesis adviser in USF’s MFA program.

A USF professor and research team are using two NASA grants and the Hubble Space Telescope to test the mathematical model of the Big Bang Theory and use AI to explore 30 years’ worth of Hubble images and data.

When they collected their diplomas on Dec. 12, these members of the Class of 2025 already had jobs lined up. What will they be doing? How did they land those jobs? What’s their career advice to current students?

In his address at USF’s 167th commencement ceremonies today, Daniel Lurie, mayor of San Francisco, called on new graduates to “find something in society that you think is unacceptable, and then go do something about it.”