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If you asked anyone when I was growing up what career I would end up pursuing, you would probably have never heard of anything to do with healthcare. Those around me would have predicted that I would likely pursue being a lawyer or go into business. So, how did I end up as a psychiatric nurse practitioner?

Karim Iliya ’12, a media studies major and astronomy minor who works as a photographer, filmmaker, and whale-swimming guide, has been chosen from a million applicants to journey to the moon as part of the SpaceX dearMoon project.

Sheillah Tumusiime ’23 has been chosen by the National Institutes of Health to address health care disparities among people of color.

Isaiah Hawthorne ‘24, is one of many students who attends USF on a donor-funded scholarship. His athletic scholarship has opened doors to the court and the classroom.

The 2023 Law Review Symposium, titled The Future of Prosecution, brought together panels of distinguished experts to discuss the role of the prosecutor.

I saw USF as a great opportunity and felt the calling. My intuition was telling me this was the right decision. 

As labor and employment law Professor Maria Linda Ontiveros considers retirement in May, she points to her Mexican grandparents, Houston-born parents, and icons including farmworker advocates Dolores Huerta and Monica Ramirez as seminal influences leading her to hone in on immigrant workers' rights.

Here are 10 ways to celebrate Black History Month, from talks on campus to the annual Black Joy Parade.

When COVID-19 closed the Hilltop campus in spring 2020, Zac Clark ’23 moved out of Gillson Hall and into a studio apartment in the Tenderloin. While Clark could barely afford his apartment, he saw that many of his neighbors couldn’t afford any lodging at all. That got him thinking.