College of Arts and Sciences News

Students are powering the new Entrepreneurship and Innovation (E and I) Initiative at the University of San Francisco and five donors have made leadership investment in the initiative. Donors and faculty leaders share how students benefit, what excites them about the initiative, and why USF’s unique approach is worthy of support.

Meet Daisy Hernandez MBA ’24 who saw an opportunity to help pay her rent during the pandemic when there were vacant rooms available in her building. Working with her landlord, she began showing the vacancies online as content. Nearly two years later, she is wrapping up her graduate degree from USF, and scaling her business, The Apartment Plug, to the next level.

I feel honored and privileged to have been selected for the Johnson & Johnson Scholarship. It is a reminder that I am heading in the right direction.

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?

Dr. Eileen K. Fry-Bowers, Dean of the University of San Francisco School of Nursing and Health Professions, receives the Distinguished Alumnus Award from The University of Rochester.

Five USF students traveled to Washington, D.C., to visit with federal policymakers and attend the AACN Student Policy Summit.

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.