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Valerie Lam ’23 spoke at her commencement Dec. 15, urging fellow School of Management undergraduates to look to the future. For Lam, a business administration major, the future means starting a job at TIAA, the retirement fund, as a human resources associate in San Francisco. She got the job through the first friend she made at USF.

The 165th Commencement ceremonies of the University of San Francisco will be Dec. 15 at St. Ignatius Church, with 762 graduates receiving degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Nursing and Health Professions, and the School of Management.

Xiaosheng Huang and his astrophysics students have a green light from NASA to explore the universe using the newest space telescope in the galaxy.

Rodrigo Bueno de Los Santos graduates this month, a semester early, with a degree in finance, an economics minor, and a full-time job as an investment banking analyst for Bank of America in New York.

Staying in the city over winter break? Here are six things to do.

Craig Santos Perez MFA ’06 won the 2023 National Book Award for poetry for his book, from unincorporated territory [åmot], the fifth work in a series about his native Guam.

At the Meet the Pros event, USF alumni from top organizations met with students on campus last week to answer questions about jobs, internships, and company cultures.

At the start of her senior year at USF, Giuliana Salomone ’22 had never operated a video camera. By the end, she’d shot, edited, and released her first film.

At the CelebrateUSF weekend on Oct. 20–22, students, families, and alumni gathered on the Hilltop for tours, lectures, food, music, and fun. 

Shennel Henries ’24, an global studies major, talks about USF, Liberia, San Francisco, civil rights, and her future in advocacy.