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The first time Tina Jain MSMI ’23 visited a government elementary school in her hometown of Varanasi, India, she was surprised to find only a few children in the classroom.

Leon Benson spent more than half his life — 25 years — in an Indiana state prison. Eleven years in solitary confinement.

“Mapping Jewish San Francisco,” a new digital exhibit by USF’s Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice, tells stories that might otherwise be lost.

More than 80 USF students traveled the world in January, visiting Jakarta, Indonesia; the Galápagos Islands and Ecuador; Johannesburg, South Africa; and, U.S. Black heritage sites in Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Teresa Fogolini MA ’11, MA ’13 inspires children and their families to dig in and play in the dirt as a way to build healthy habits.

The road to graduating law school for Katiuska Pimentel JD ’23 has been filled with financial hardships and family losses, and that has fueled her commitment to use her USF law degree to support others.

Karim Iliya ’12, a media studies major and astronomy minor who works as a photographer, filmmaker, and whale-swimming guide, has been chosen from a million applicants to journey to the moon as part of the SpaceX dearMoon project.

Sheillah Tumusiime ’23 has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health to address health care disparities among people of color.

Here are 10 ways to celebrate Black History Month, from talks on campus to the annual Black Joy Parade.

When COVID-19 closed the Hilltop campus in spring 2020, Zac Clark ’23 moved out of Gillson Hall and into a studio apartment in the Tenderloin. While Clark could barely afford his apartment, he saw that many of his neighbors couldn’t afford any lodging at all. That got him thinking.