College of Arts and Sciences News

When Merhawit and Meseret Mehzun were looking at colleges, they each had the same wish — to attend separate schools. But after a college-tour trip during high school, each twin, independent of the other, ranked USF as her top choice.

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.