Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, CA — September 18, 2008. Michael Engh, S.J., distinguished historian and current Dean of the Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, has been selected the 28th president of Santa Clara University. Fr. Engh will succeed Paul Locatelli, S.J., who announced in March that he would step down after nearly 20 years as president.

SANTA CLARA, CA – September 15, 2008.   The National Science Foundation, through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, has recently awarded Santa Clara University a five-year grant of $750,000, which will nearly double the number of Santa Clara University graduates pursuing teaching careers in science and mathematics each year. 

SANTA CLARA, CA– Sept. 10, 2008.  With videoconferencing-ready classrooms, wireless Internet access, and 16 team project rooms, Santa Clara University’s new Lucas Hall facility will give its Leavey School of Business students firsthand experience with leading-edge, 21^st-century technology.

Santa Clara, CA - August 29, 2008. Santa Clara University's School of Engineering received the Kern Entrepreneurship Education Network (KEEN) award this month and with it a $50,000 grant from the Kern Family Foundation to expand upon the school's entrepreneurship and innovation education for undergraduate students.

SANTA CLARA, CA — August 25, 2008. Santa Clara University's Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI®) initiative, a signature program of the university's Center for Science, Technology, and Society, was recently awarded a $1.08 million grant from the Skoll Foundation. The grant will allow the program to focus on a selected vertical sector each year, expand geographic coverage, and better disseminate the lessons learned from the program.

For the 19th consecutive year, Santa Clara University was ranked second overall among 116 master's universities in the West by U.S. News & World Report. SCU's average undergraduate graduation rate, 85 percent, was the second highest in the country among 572 national master's level universities.