Best and Brightest
Alumni - Spring 2016CELEBRATING STELLAR ACHIEVEMENTS
Alcalá Park welcomes its best, brightest and most renowned alumni home for Alumni Honors, which will be held on April 30. Each year, this on-campus event commemorates the exceptional achievements of illustrious alumni, recognized for their … Read More
To Search and Find
Faith In Action, Student Success - Spring 2016CHALLENGING STUDENTS TO UNPLUG
For nearly two decades,University Ministry has offered the biannual Search Retreat, which encourages students to grow in their relationship with their truest selves, with others, and with God. Taking place at Camp Wildwood … Read More
Men on a Mission
Faith In Action, Student Success - Spring 2016Deciding whether or not to become a priest begins with a calling. Of course, that’s just the first step.
Tucked among the dorms and apartments east of the main campus, adjacent to the athletic fields, partially obscured … Read More
Nothing but Net
Athletics - Spring 2016WOMEN’S BASKETBALL HEAD COACH CINDY FISHER IS TENACITY, PERSONIFIED
The girl, all of 7 or 8 years old, would walk outside her Cheyenne, Wyo., home, put chalk to cement, designing basketball plays. Then she would pick up her basketball … Read More
Practical Idealism
News - Spring 2016A conversation with new School of Business Dean Jaime Alonso Gómez
With more than 30 years of experience as a professor, researcher and consultant, Jaime Alonso Gómez brings exemplary credentials to his new position as the dean … Read More
From Start to Finish
Student Success - Spring 2016ADMISSIONS, CAREER DEVELOPMENT CENTER MOVE INTO SHARED SPACE
While every journey is different, one common element is universal: a start and a finish. Given that reverberations from major decisions such as choosing a college can ripple for years, … Read More
Community Celebration
News - Spring 2016Harris inauguration events span full week
After his first 123 days on the job, James T. Harris III, DEd, was inaugurated as the University of San Diego’s fourth president at a formal installation ceremony on Dec. 4, 2015.
The Precisionist
Athletics, Student Success - Spring 2016TENNIS STANDOUT UROS PETRONIJEVIC KEY TO TEAM’S SUCCESS
Newly minted USD Men’s Tennis Head Coach Ryan Keckley had only been on the job a few weeks when he figured out the winning recipe for the upcoming 2015… Read More
Meet the Taylor Sisters
Athletics, Student Success - Spring 2016AGE: Jackie (left), 21; Danielle (right), 18
MAJORS: Jackie, biology; Danielle, undeclared
HOMETOWN: San Ramon, Calif.
BIG FINS TO FILL: Older sister Jackie Taylor has firmly established herself as USD swimming and diving royalty, as she … Read More
Older? Yes. Wiser? Maybe.
Alumni - Spring 2016WAXING NOSTALGIC WITH JACKSON MUECKE
For the better part of two decades as both a student and administrator, Jackson Muecke ’69 was Alcalá Park’s unquestioned crown prince of conviviality; a freewheeling force-of-nature committed to connecting his fellow Toreros … Read More
R.I.P. Author E. Hughes
Faith In Action, USD History - Spring 2016Author “Art” E. Hughes, PhD, whose 24 years as the University of San Diego’s first president was highlighted by his leadership during a 1972 merger that created USD, passed away on Sept. 6, 2015, after a brief illness. He was 85. His solid leadership, … Read More
Classics, Reimagined
Alumni - Spring 2016A Tip of the Hat to Janessa Leoné
The hat that inspired it all sounds downright delicious: “It’s rounded, made of fur felt, and is supple, worn-in and buttery. A cross between olive-green and gray, it was … Read More
