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Art was the conduit through which Pacita Abad LMA ’72 advocated for marginalized people.

At the second annual Startup Summit, presented on campus by USF’s Startup Club, five teams pitched business ideas to four judges with experience in the startup world. One team received $10,000 from the Office of the Provost to fund its project.

Thirty years after Lerisa Puckett graduated from Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, she walked into a classroom at USF. The students might have done a double take.

Should artificial intelligence write a paper for you? Write code for you? Give you legal advice?

Civil rights activist Clarence B. Jones was awarded the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, May 3 by President Joe Biden, who recognized Jones’ lifelong commitment to social justice and his work with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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.