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The 165th Commencement ceremonies of the University of San Francisco will be May 16, 17, and 18 in St. Ignatius Church, with 2,025 graduates receiving degrees from the College of Arts and Sciences, the School of Education, the School of Management, the School of Law, and the School of Nursing and Health Professions.

The assistant professor of English talks about boxing, memory, work, and why stories matter.

Andrew Saah ’25 and Owen Sordillo ’24 met as sophomores, randomly assigned suitemates in Lone Mountain East. Today, they are working with NASA — and a $100,000 grant from the space agency — on a startup that will use satellite and lidar data to predict wildfires.

California State Senator Scott Wiener came to the Hilltop to hear students’ thoughts on his new artificial intelligence bill. He got an earful.

Four second-year law students spent their spring break at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, where they learned what it’s like to live in confinement.

Six members of the National Society of Black Engineers chapter at USF attended the 50th annual NSBE conference in Atlanta, Georgia, last month. Ivey Garcia ’25, internal vice president of the NSBE chapter, talks about the conference and why she’s majoring in computer science.

“I never wrote a single line of code before coming here,” said Khushal Chekuri ’24.

In February 2023, Maya Ayed ’22 was laid off by a tech company in San Francisco. She wasn’t sure what to do. So she wrote a post on her LinkedIn page.

Google headquarters is just 40 miles from USF’s campus, and Cyrus Ahanin ’24 wasn’t going to pass up a chance to visit and learn about working there.

Joe Soberon is a first-year student in the School of Law and a starting pitcher for the Division I Dons baseball team — at the same time.