What is AI Good For?

In the city that builds AI, USF faculty, students, and alumni are using it to do good.

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75th Anniversary of the 1951 Dons Taking Their Stand

They might be the greatest team you’ve never heard of. But today, 75 years later, the ’51 Dons have more fans than ever, thanks to a choice they made off the football field.

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They Went Forth

In 1961, John F. Kennedy called on Americans to learn a language, leave home, and serve abroad. Since then, 377 Dons have said yes to the Peace Corps. Meet five of them.

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Features From Past Issues

They serve the community, guide education, and influence everything.

May 31, 2022

What can we do to end anti-Asian racism?

December 9, 2021

New provost talks about race, community, pets, and transformative education.

December 9, 2021

I lie in the shade, in my backyard in the Sierra foothills, eating lunch. In this heat, the bees nap. Even the hummingbirds rest in the shelter of an incense cedar.

December 9, 2021

Reflections on our common home at a time of wildfires, drought, and warming temperatures.

December 9, 2021

Alan Chazaro MFA ’17 says the poet shook the status quo.

December 9, 2021

A student reflects on anti-Asian violence.

December 9, 2021

“Perseverance” is the word Frankie Ferrari uses when asked to describe his long and bumpy journey from high school basketball player to point guard in Spain’s top basketball league.

May 29, 2021

When Sarah Toutant was a student at the Hilltop, USF didn’t have a Black Scholars program. She helped to change that.

May 29, 2021

Galina Lang runs a startup that makes reusable bottles for lovers of boba, a sweet Asian beverage also known as “bubble tea.”

May 19, 2021