College of Arts and Sciences News

USF undergraduates aren’t waiting until after graduation to launch their own companies. They’re using their classes to test new ideas — and relying on professors as business consultants.

Erin Brigham, executive director of the Lane Center for Catholic Social Thought and the Ignatian Tradition at USF, explains what the Ignatian Year is and why it matters.

Salmon swimming upriver. Bald eagles perched overhead in the towering spruce trees. Last summer, in Alaska’s Inside Passage, Giancarlo Laguna ’24 couldn’t believe what he was seeing.

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