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“Wall Street Academy teaches financial literacy, explains financial markets, and introduces students to investing,” said Tim Rasmussen MBA ’13, director of the Silk Family Investment Institute and co-founder of Wall Street Academy. “We cover a broad range of topics, from the basics of stocks and bonds to global financial markets.” For five days in June and five days in July, two cohorts of students came to campus from as far away as Hong Kong and from as near as San Francisco, Rasmussen said.

“We’re moving beyond treating mental toughness as a fixed trait,” Ochoa said. “Instead, we’re analyzing how emotional regulation shifts when athletes are exhausted or stressed.

What are you doing this summer? I just got back from an immersion in Shanghai — my first time outside the country. We were students from all over USF, a mix of undergrads and graduate students in business, entrepreneurship, a few nursing majors. We stayed at the Sino-British College, and students there showed us around, took us to local spots. Who led the immersion? Wei Yang Menkus , director of the Center for Asia Pacific Studies,and Jesse Antilla-Hughes, head of our economics department.

This spring, she heard yes from seven of them. Macias, who graduated from USF in May of 2024 with a degree in biology, was accepted to seven of the eight medical schools where she interviewed, including Brown and Dartmouth. In the end she chose Johns Hopkins. She’ll start there this fall on a scholarship covering tuition and living expenses. Macias grew up far from Johns Hopkins. She lived in Mexico until she was 8, when her family moved to Springdale, Arkansas.

You earned both your degrees at USF. What drew you back for your master’s? The University of San Francisco offered me something open, grounded, and accessible. I could stay close to home and avoid the added expense of housing, which was important to me and my family. After undergrad, I was working in public radio at the time, jumping from stations like 94.9 to KNBR, and eventually found my way to sports through an unexpected internship with the Giants.

Julia Siewit JD '21 LLM '22 “Earning my LLM was a door-opener. The degree makes you stand apart from the other candidates,” says Siewit, now an associate attorney with Hoge Fenton. When the firm was hiring for a mid-level associate in corporate transactional law, Siewit’s credentials caught their attention.

“For me, personally, the School of Management has really changed the direction of my life,” said Carlos Zapata MSFA ’15. “It came at a point where I was struggling with my career, and I was struggling financially because of the career situation,” he said. “I decided the course of action for a better future was through education.” Today, Zapata is a senior staff member at Twist Bioscience in South San Francisco, where he oversees environmental, social, and governance projects.

Carol Cook ’83, MBA ’96 and Ivy Efendioglu ’78, MBA ’91 cheering on USF basketball For USF mother, Double Don, and university staff member Carol Cook, Dons basketball is more than entertainment — it's a family passion and something that she knows increases USF's mark on the collegiate map. Carol Cook was a basketball player and track athlete growing up. Her love of basketball at a young age evolved into a lifelong passion and family tradition.

“Entrepreneurial skills are just the skills needed to take an idea and make it a reality,” said Johnathan Cromwell, associate professor of entrepreneurship and faculty director of the Entrepreneurship For All Initiative. “This is ultimately an initiative that helps our students have the kind of impact they envision when coming to the University of San Francisco.” The enterprise is a business incubator where students from all majors are welcome, Cromwell said.

The landscape of college sports changed dramatically in 2021 when the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in NCAA v. Alston that the NCAA was subject to antitrust laws and that its athlete compensation limits violate those laws. The NCAA in turn adopted an NIL policy that allowed student-athletes to profit from their image and likeness with few restrictions.