Research & Creative Achievement
Come learn by doing. Work with your classmates. Do research with your professors. Create team projects and solo projects, too. At USF, we encourage collaboration more than we encourage competition. Come change the world with your work — not just after you graduate but right now.
Roll Up Your Sleeves
Break Boundaries
Our centers and institutes foster innovative, interdisciplinary, and socially conscious study around San Francisco and the world.
Make and Create
Come work in our maker spaces and our labs. Come create with your head and your hands.
Write for the Real World
Submit your essays, research papers, scientific reports, business proposals, and more. Get published in this journal of student writing.
Work With Your Professors
Our student-to-faculty ratio of 12-to-1 enables you to know your professors and your professors to know you. In contrast to larger colleges, we give you, as an undergraduate, the chance to do graduate-level research directly with professors. The results are in-depth inquiry and creative expression in areas ranging from computational neuroscience and ecofeminist ethics to acculturation’s impact on the health of Asian American immigrants.
Zayda De Guzman ’25
Asian Studies
I want to shine a light on Filipino ‘comfort women.’ During World War II, women in the Philippines were forced into sexual slavery by the occupying Japanese military. I’ve done research to keep their names alive and to tell their stories in the hopes that history won’t repeat itself.”
Zayda De Guzman ’25
Asian Studies
Students Improve the World With Their Research
USF students tackled climate change, water pollution, and more than 100 other challenges at Creative Activity and Research Day.
Change the World From Here
In the Innovation Hive at USF, you and your classmates dream, build, collaborate, innovate.
