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On a 10-day immersion in the Philippines last month, students from Monika Hudson’s Family Business Academic Global Immersion class at USF joined their counterpart students from Ateneo, a sister Jesuit university in Manila. Together, the 29 students visited five family businesses and one social enterprise, ranging from multinational companies to kitchen-table startups.

Maya Jaramillo-Visconte ’24 first saved seeds as part of her environmental studies coursework at USF. Today, she is saving seeds as part of her profession.

Sweta Thota, professor of marketing, says that students should write papers not only for their classes but for peer-reviewed journals. To prove her point, she co-authored a journal article with two students.

It sounds like an idea for Pixar’s next animated film: Land-loving iguanas from North America float to Fiji on dislodged trees that formed rafts for the reptiles.

At the GenAI in Higher Education symposium held on campus last week, four experts from the tech industry discussed how today’s students can prepare for tomorrow’s jobs. The consensus: In this age of machines, employers still need humans.

USF’s graduate programs remain among the best in the nation, according to new rankings from U.S. News & World Report.

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.