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Santa Clara University names new President
Fr. Michael Engh, Jesuit priest and historian, to join Bronco family in January 2009
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.
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Santa Clara University: National Science Foundation grant encourages more undergraduates to pursue teaching careers in mathematics and science
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.
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Santa Clara University: New Business School Facility Creates Global Classroom through State-of-the-Art Technology
New building named after Silicon Valley venture capitalist Donald L. Lucas
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, 21st-century technology.
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School of Engineering Receives Grant to Expand Undergraduate Entrepreneurship Education
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.
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Global Social Benefit Incubator Receives Three-Year Grant from Skoll Foundation
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.
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Santa Clara University continues to score well in national survey
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.
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