The Man Behind the Camera

On Feb. 19, 1945, Joe Rosenthal waded ashore with a battalion of Marines in the attack on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima. Instead of a rifle, he carried a camera above his head.

The Iwo Jima flag-raising photo

Friends Who Play Together, Stay Together

James Mannah, 69, sat covered in sweat on the sidelines of Hamilton Park’s grass field in San Francisco’s Western Addition. He had just finished a soccer game that lasted a couple of hours and while his team had lost, he, as usual, had scored a goal. Mannah has been playing soccer since he was 3 in his native Freetown, Sierra Leone. A natural striker, he has scored thousands of goals, he says with a smile, since he started playing at “the sacred field” in 1982.

A group of adults playing soccer

177 Million Ways to Change the World

In this academic year, USF awarded $177 million in scholarships and grants to more than 7,000 undergraduate, graduate, and law students. USF alumni and friends have supported more than 550 scholarship funds since 2020.

A collage of USF students