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DECEMBER 2025

Features

Meet USF's New President

Salvador D. Aceves ’83, EdD ’95, USF’s new president and first lay president, was born in San Francisco, educated at USF, and has served as a professor and an administrator at USF. Now he’s back — and looking forward.

Salvador D. Aceves

Dons Die-Hards

You don't have to be crazy to be a fan, but it helps.

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My Cousin*, The Pope

When I saw my last name on the gravestone of Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents, I did some digging.

collage of Pope Leo XIV with the words New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans

Features From Past Issues

They serve the community, guide education, and influence everything.

May 31, 2022

What can we do to end anti-Asian racism?

December 9, 2021

New provost talks about race, community, pets, and transformative education.

December 9, 2021

I lie in the shade, in my backyard in the Sierra foothills, eating lunch. In this heat, the bees nap. Even the hummingbirds rest in the shelter of an incense cedar.

December 9, 2021

Reflections on our common home at a time of wildfires, drought, and warming temperatures.

December 9, 2021

Alan Chazaro MFA ’17 says the poet shook the status quo.

December 9, 2021

A student reflects on anti-Asian violence.

December 9, 2021

“Perseverance” is the word Frankie Ferrari uses when asked to describe his long and bumpy journey from high school basketball player to point guard in Spain’s top basketball league.

May 29, 2021

When Sarah Toutant was a student at the Hilltop, USF didn’t have a Black Scholars program. She helped to change that.

May 29, 2021

Galina Lang runs a startup that makes reusable bottles for lovers of boba, a sweet Asian beverage also known as “bubble tea.”

May 19, 2021