Building Relationships
Academic Excellence - Spring 2020$2.3 MILLION GIFT TO BURNHAM-MOORES CENTER FOR REAL ESTATE
After years of neutralizing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) in Iraq and Afghanistan, Navy Lt. Brian Lehtinen ’22 is looking for a career that’s a little more relaxing. Since he’d … Read More
Playing the Game
Academic Excellence, Alumni, Student Success - Spring 2020PAYING IT FORWARD TRANSCENDS POLITICS AS USUAL
From the outside, political life in Washington, D.C. seems as turbulent as it’s ever been. A washing machine filled with fiery rhetoric and partisan brawling set on permanent spin … Read More
Harvesting Stories
Academic Excellence, Alumni, Student Success - Spring 2020TRANSFORMING HARD SUBJECTS INTO COMPELLING FILMS
After 35 years at USD, Professor of Communication Studies Roger Pace has seen potential in unsure first-year students and watched them become confident seniors. He’s shared his love of independent film with … Read More
Meaningful Work
Academic Excellence - Spring 2020NEW WOMEN’S LEGAL CLINIC TO LAUNCH THIS SPRING
Inspired by her volunteer service to GenerateHope, a faith-based organization that provides long-term programs for women who have been victims of sex trafficking, Una Davis recently helped make it … Read More
Stopping Traffic
Academic Excellence, Faith In Action - Spring 2020THE USD COMMUNITY IS COMBATTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING ON MULTIPLE FRONTS
As an associate professor at the Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies, Ami Carpenter specializes in conflict prevention and resolution. Like most San Diegans, her knowledge of … Read More
An Honorable Education
Academic Excellence - Spring 2020HONORS PROGRAM ENHANCES STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC CURIOSITY
Sydney Pidgeon’s initial perception of the University of San Diego Honors Program was flat-out wrong.
“Friends who were in other schools’ honors programs told me not to … Read More
Starting to Click
Academic Excellence, Alumni, Student Success - Spring 2020FROM PRE-MED TO JET-SETTING PHOTOGRAPHER
It’s a career with a trajectory that resembles a comet streaking through the sky, but that arc makes perfect sense when you see Justin Chung’s photographs, which are both objectively gorgeous … Read More
Dispatches from Uganda: 2020 Edition
Academic Excellence, News, Student Success - Spring 2020INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION AND A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME EXPERIENCE
A water quality research project in Uganda has the full attention of an interdisciplinary group — including USD faculty members, students, President James T. Harris and his wife, Mary — all of whom are … Read More
Please Don’t Pet the Lemurs
Academic Excellence - Fall 2019Who among us hasn’t whiled away a few moments on social media to watch online videos of adorable animals, and perhaps think, “I want one of those!”
That’s just what happened in 2016, when a video of … Read More
A Classical Approach
Academic Excellence - Fall 2019HUMANITIES CENTER GIFT FUNDS ENDOWED DIRECTORSHIP
For the second time in only three short years, Carol Vassiliadis (pictured), who is parent to a USD alumna, has given the College of Arts and Sciences a generous contribution … Read More
Eminently Reasonable
Academic Excellence - Fall 2019POLITICAL SCIENCE PODCAST A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Civil discourse in the current hyperpolarized political American landscape seems like a distant dream. But three USD political science professors are doing their part to make America informed … Read More
The Power of Stories
Academic Excellence - Fall 2019MOMO BERTRAND ’19 IS CHANGING THE NARRATIVE
Around the dinner table, my mom would tell me all these stories,” Momo Bertrand says, eyes twinkling at the childhood memory. “I know some of them were not true.”
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Lifelong Lessons
Academic Excellence, Alumni - Fall 2019LAW SCHOOL CLINIC SERVES UP VITAL EXPERIENCE
There are the lessons you learn in school and the lessons you learn in the real world. Kayla Watson ’19 (JD) was able to learn a real-world certainty before leaving … Read More
Impacting the World
Academic Excellence, Faith In Action - Summer 2019KROC SCHOOL ESTABLISHES NEW PEACEBUILDING INITIATIVE
Milt Lauenstein has long sought world peace. He’s done his part by launching and supporting peacebuilding endeavors, including the Purdue Peace Project, which has successfully supported locally led peacebuilding … Read More
Making a Difference
Academic Excellence - Summer 2019FOWLER GIFT WILL INSPIRE A GENERATION OF STUDENTS
Former USD Board of Trustees Chair Ron Fowler and his wife, Alexis, recently gave $2.6 million to USD to promote entrepreneurship endeavors through a new partnership between the University … Read More
