Mission Matters

  • Here comes the sun ... and our solar decathletes

    Here comes the sun ... and our solar decathletes

    The 2013 Solar Decathlon is on! Santa Clara is competing for the third time, after third place wins in 2007 and 2009.

    Spring 2012

  • Harness the power

    Harness the power

    New programs prepare SCU students to work in the clean energy economy, to study environmental challenges, and to turn ideas into opportunities.

    Spring 2012

  • If you only have a hammer

    If you only have a hammer

    SCU helps shape the Catholic Sustainability Toolkit for colleges nationwide. And not every problem looks like a nail.

    Spring 2012

  • Opening new doors in the Philippines

    Opening new doors in the Philippines

    Introducing Casa Bayanihan—a place to learn, work, and be changed forever.

    Spring 2012

  • Six months to a better startup

    Six months to a better startup

    A company, a game, and a score of Broncos

    Spring 2012

  • Impact capital

    Impact capital

    Social investment to help the most vulnerable.

    Spring 2012

  • Bigger than all of us

    Bigger than all of us

    Baseball Coach Dan O’Brien goes old school. He wants players—and fans—to rekindle a love affair with the game.

    Spring 2012

  • Celebrating La Virgen

    Celebrating La Virgen

    SCU and the Sacred Heart Parish commemorate the vision of Our Lady of Guadalupe with a 15-year tradition—and a four-year scholarship.

    Spring 2012

  • New from SCU Faculty

    New from SCU Faculty

    Fr. Paul Mariani's Church Militant, Gary Macy's Women Deacons, and Juan Velasco's Massacre of the Dreamers, along with others, are featured.

    Spring 2012

  • Uncorking the past

    Uncorking the past

    Treasures and tales from the old infirmaries.

    Spring 2012

Spring/Summer 2013

Table of contents

Features

Walk Across California

An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.

Miller's Tale

To tell the story of Bob Miller ’67 is to tell the coming-of-age tale of Las Vegas itself. And it’s the chronicle of a man who served a decade as governor of Nevada. Quite a journey for the son of an illegal bookie from Chicago.

Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.

Nina Acosta '82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD’s SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?

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When justice is kidnapped

The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.

Double trouble

Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble ’13 and John Lamble ’13. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.

Keep the door open

For teaching and advising and a ministry that’s blessed this place for 48 years—paying tribute to Charles Phipps, S.J.