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.
My Cousin*, The Pope
When I saw my last name on the gravestone of Pope Leo XIV’s grandparents, I did some digging.
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New provost talks about race, community, pets, and transformative education.
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.
Reflections on our common home at a time of wildfires, drought, and warming temperatures.
Alan Chazaro MFA ’17 says the poet shook the status quo.
“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.
When Sarah Toutant was a student at the Hilltop, USF didn’t have a Black Scholars program. She helped to change that.
Galina Lang runs a startup that makes reusable bottles for lovers of boba, a sweet Asian beverage also known as “bubble tea.”