School of Nursing & Health Professions News

Ember Young ’26 talks about broadcasting, baseball, and how to find a position in a field you love.

Breaking into professional sports is one of the most competitive career paths in the world. For Kai Rogers ’26, it started not with a job posting, but with the right community, the right mentor, and a program that made both possible.

Whether guiding clients through healing, advocating for marginalized groups, or helping mentor the next generation of professionals, many alumni from the University of San Francisco share careers in compassion and service. 

From independent productions to major studio projects, USF alumni are making their mark across the film industry. We caught up with five graduates whose creativity, vision and talent are shaping the future of storytelling on screens around the world.

The University of San Francisco hosted 32 higher-education leaders from the nation’s Jesuit universities for a three-day immersion into the rapidly evolving AI landscape in San Francisco and Silicon Valley.

President Salvador D. Aceves ’83, EdD ’95 met with Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on June 25, as part of a visit by presidents of Jesuit universities and colleges in North America and Central America.

"The pope presents the good Samaritan as an image of the church responding to human suffering out of love and closeness. Perhaps the Synod on Synodality has indeed led us toward a deeper realization of Pope Francis’ dream of a church of closeness, preparing the church to defend human dignity in this moment." 

Sport Management Professor Michael Goldman spoke about how international politics are affecting the 2026 FIFA World Cup 2026.

When I began my Master of Public Health at the University of San Francisco in August 2019, I had no idea how profoundly it would change my life.

Juneteenth is the national celebration of the end of slavery in the United States. The federal holiday honors June 19, 1865, the date enslaved people in Texas learned they were free, more than two years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.