College of Arts and Sciences News

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.

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.

Design major Sarah Hamilton '20 landed a role as brand designer at Chronicle Books. Here's how.

An amateur designer who created flyers and posters for fun, Andre Canta '22 began his first year at USF as an undeclared member of the Honors College. Through a forum class in that program, he met a design professor who changed the trajectory of his college career.

Google headquarters is just 40 miles from USF’s campus, and Cyrus Ahanin ’24 wasn’t going to pass up a chance to visit and learn about working there.

Eileen Chia-Ching Fung was named the provost and vice president of academic affairs at the University of San Francisco on March 6, after holding the position of interim provost and vice president of academic affairs since June 2023.

Rocky Harris ‘02, Chief of Sport & Athlete Services with the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee, is gearing up for the Paris 2024 Games later this year. He shared the following reflections of his role and career.