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.
Features From Past Issues
Mitchell Zvagelskiy isn’t your typical college junior. He runs a major business. He launched Scale Online, an ecommerce company, in early 2020 with a middle school friend. Scale Online teaches clients about ecommerce and manages stores directly for folks who don’t have the time or skills to do it themselves.
A visual investigations producer for the nonprofit newsroom ProPublica, Lucas Waldron exposes large institutions and fringe groups alike. He mostly produces videos but sometimes writes investigative stories as well.
Brian Rezende works on the diagnostic front lines fighting COVID-19.
In her career, Vanessa Barba has advocated for domestic workers, restaurant workers, and garment workers. “But I always find myself going back to domestic workers because they need help the most,” she says.
What do you do when you’re 19 and in jail on a felony conviction? Antonio Reza resolved to go to college — and then law school.
When Alyssa Nakken became the first woman to work as a full-time coach in Major League Baseball, the league directed its 30 teams to create locker-room space for women.
Aptitude and ambition have placed Brenna Malloy in the director’s chair. But she’d be the first to tell you that aptitude and ambition are not enough.
A NASA weather scientist needs help predicting superstorms? Brad Kenstler can help with that. A football coach wants to know the probability of this wide receiver making that catch? Kenstler can do that, too.
Ebraheem Alghafees entered USF thinking he’d major in physics and engineering and pursue a career as an engineer. But after learning he had stage two Hodgkin’s lymphoma the summer after his first year, he decided life was too short for a path he felt pressured into by his parents.
