School of Education News

Teresa Fogolini MA ’11, MA ’13 inspires children and their families to dig in and play in the dirt as a way to build healthy habits.

The road to graduating law school for Katiuska Pimentel JD ’23 has been filled with financial hardships and family losses, and that has fueled her commitment to use her USF law degree to support others.

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.