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John Iosefo ’21 has been sworn in as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service — the first from American Samoa.

“Maybe this prison cell isn’t just a cell. Maybe it’s a university.”

Leon Benson described the awakening he had in prison to more than 100 people at the University of San Francisco School of Law Barnett Lecture on Sept. 21.

On Saturday, Sept. 30, students from eight universities converged on campus for a different kind of debate tournament.

As he debuts on Broadway this fall, Moses Villarama ’04 credits the acting classes he took at USF and the mentorship he received as a student for preparing him to perform in a new musical.

On a foggy morning in April, when a group of young women from Oakland paddled out to take a surfing lesson at Linda Mar Beach in Pacifica, they broke a barrier that had stood for more than 15 years.

“Do your knees ache when you run? Do your ankles hurt when you jump?”

Gerwyn Hughes wants to know. He’s a professor of kinesiology and he runs the new motion analysis lab in Harney Science Center at USF.

More than 140 students and professors traveled to 11 different USF global immersion programs in more than a dozen countries over the summer, exploring topics like the biology of cancer and learning more about the lives of migrants at the Spain and Morocco border.

In the U.S. News & World Report 2024 undergraduate rankings released today, USF moved up in four categories and remains a top university.

Makena Gichuru ’25, an environmental science student, will use the Arthur Furst Research Award to support her schooling at USF — including research on coyotes in San Francisco.

English Professor Omar F. Miranda and three undergraduate students set out earlier this year to find the untold story of USF’s literary magazine, which has been published for more than a century.