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USF students tackled climate change, water pollution, and more than 100 other challenges at Creative Activity and Research Day this month. They shared their work in posters, presentations, and projects.  

Sweta Thota, professor of marketing, says that students should write papers not only for their classes but for peer-reviewed journals. To prove her point, she co-authored a journal article with two students.

It sounds like an idea for Pixar’s next animated film: Land-loving iguanas from North America float to Fiji on dislodged trees that formed rafts for the reptiles.

This morning the University of San Francisco was named a Research 2 university in the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The R2 designation places USF among 139 doctoral universities in the U.S. with “high research activity.”

Located in San Francisco, Gladstone Institutes is a leading nonprofit biomedical research organization that boasts two Nobel Prize winners among its ranks. Recently, USF Professional Science Master's in Biotechnology students seized the opportunity to visit, network, seek career advice, and tour Gladstone’s laboratories.

In 2022, USF acquired the space formerly known as the Blood Centers of the Pacific. The building occupies a highly visible corner of campus, at the intersection of Masonic Avenue and Turk Boulevard.

Celebrating its first anniversary, the Dr. Nina Diez Teaching Laboratory for Integrative Cancer Biology is a state-of-the-art space where students can study the microscopic world of bacteria and the complex biodiversity and regenerative nature of plants and animals.

“Do your knees ache when you run? Do your ankles hurt when you jump?”

Gerwyn Hughes wants to know. He’s a professor of kinesiology and he runs the new motion analysis lab in Harney Science Center at USF.

The ink is barely dry on paperwork to ensconce the Blockchain Law for Social Good Center within USF, and founder Professor Michele Neitz’s Spring 2023 class on Blockchain Technology and the Law is already at capacity, with 8 students on a waitlist.