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As a young paralegal just out of college, Jessie Peterson JD ’21 never would have predicted she’d take center stage the day San Francisco welcomed its first new mayor since 2018.

USF’s men’s basketball team beat Utah Valley last night, 79-70, in a thrilling home game at War Memorial at the Sobrato Center, and the team advanced to the second round of postseason playoffs.

Amina Essid ’27 remembers feeling a little confused on the first day of Engineering Project & Design II class as she arrived at Privett Plaza for an outdoor improv session with her classmates, all wearing rainbow sweatbands. The experience, though, helped her become more comfortable thinking on her feet.

Elise Green ’26 and Mecedes Lindsay ’26 teamed up to win the championship in the Social Justice Debates tournament at Morehouse College in Atlanta.

Annie Hodge ’27, a critical diversity studies major with a minor in computer science, is a USF in DC student this semester and works as an intern in the office of Rep. David Kustoff, a Republican from west Tennessee.

Lifeguards Nathaniel Gonzalez ’25, Khaila Esguerra ’25, and Camila Pardi ’25 were on duty at the Koret swimming pool the morning of Dec. 13 — their last shift before winter break.

Want to get the most out of a trip to USF? Here’s the itinerary.

This morning the University of San Francisco was named a Research 2 university in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The R2 designation places USF among 139 doctoral universities in the U.S. with “high research activity.”

More students are attending USF retreats, venturing off campus in small groups to immerse themselves and find peace in hiking, writing, forest bathing, and spiritual renewal, Richard Alvia said.

The School of Management, founded in 1925, has made history over the years, but one of its most important successes? More than 40,000 alumni of the school.