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After 10 years in professional baseball, Bradley Zimmer is back at USF to finish what he started.

The University of San Francisco was recognized today for providing access to students from all ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds and for setting them up for higher earnings after graduation.

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.