Kal Gullapalli was in eighth grade when he told his mother he wasn’t going to medical school because he had already decided he wanted to become an investment banker, even though nearly every adult in his family practiced medicine. His parents immigrated from India in the early 1970s, recruited by American hospitals during a nationwide … Read more
July Cover Story Rob Higgins and the University That Shaped Him Rob Higgins overlooks practice inside USF’s indoor football facility. Photo courtesy of Evan Smith. At his father’s first oncology appointment, Rob Higgins found himself paying closer attention to his family history than he ever had before. The appointment followed a bladder cancer diagnosis that … Read more
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