College of Arts and Sciences News

The University of San Francisco has received a generous gift from Anne and Nick Germanacos to support the Swig Program in Jewish Studies and Social Justice (JSSJ).
 

On a career trek in November, 20 students visited Striking Distance Studios, a video game developer in San Ramon. This is one of several industry visits the Career Services Center organizes throughout the year to show students careers they might pursue.

Twelve USF students spent the fall semester teaching their peers in club sports and Greek life how to recognize, prevent, and respond to sexual violence.

On Tuesday, December 2, 2025, the USF community gathered together to celebrate GivingTuesday, a global movement that inspires generosity to promote people to give back to their organizations, support their communities, and create positive impact.

For nearly three decades, Kim Garcia-Meza MA ’98 has been nurturing San Francisco’s youngest learners; and in the past twenty years, she has also been empowering their families through the preschool she founded, Las Mañanitas.

In 1995, the inaugural Thanksgiving Food Drive was organized by the original Alumni Board of Governors, in the spirit of USF’s support for communities throughout the greater San Francisco area. Over the past thirty years, this tradition has grown as a living expression of the university’s Jesuit values and USF’s dedication to community and generosity.

Twenty students across majors visited the LinkedIn and Handshake offices in San Francisco for a Career Services Center career trek last month.

The 50th anniversary celebration for the International and Multicultural Education Department (IME) titled Learning for Resistance, Love & Liberation, was held on October 4 in Fromm Hall with notable alumni, faculty, and student speakers present. In addition to workshops and networking, participants were privileged to attend a plenary session which embodied the IME department's continued growth in the field.

From crushing grapes in Napa Valley to crunching numbers on the U.S.’s largest privately funded Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) ever, Patrick Krause - now Data Director at Open Research - has built a career path illustrating the exciting journey of an IDEC alum.

Professor Hobbs’ research currently centers around index insurance—a promising approach to protecting farmers from weather-related losses. Unlike traditional insurance that requires individual claim investigations, index insurance uses regional data to automatically trigger payouts when certain thresholds are met.