THE ANATOMY OF SCIENCE AT USF
The University of St. Francis was founded by the Sisters of St. Francis of Mary Immaculate in 1920 with an anchor in science through nursing and education. In 1932, the Sisters, who first operated a boarding school for high school girls, developed a college curriculum that included a biology degree. Shortly after, in 1935, a course affiliation program with the St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing was established, and St. Francis’s original college of nursing was born.
