Web Exclusives
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Follow your compass
From the classroom to the clinic, from California farm communities to Haiti and Tanzania, these Broncos have made a difference. They were recognized at the 2012 Alumni Association Awards, presented April 28.
Fall 2012
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Bella vita
After 66 years, Professor Victor Vari is retiring. He’s imparted to generations of Santa Clara students understanding of Italian language and culture—and how to live a beautiful life.
Summer 2012
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The sporting life
From a pair of castoff tennis rackets—to nationally known programs and penalty shots heard ’round the world.
Summer 2012
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Respect the game
Now they're the subject of dreams-may-come true movies. But in the beginning, they were women who just wanted to play soccer.
Summer 2012
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The Makers
What does it mean to teach the arts—and to create art in all its forms—here and now? By that, we mean here at Santa Clara, in the heart of Silicon Valley, with threads reaching out to the rest of the world.
Summer 2012
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Elemental
Fate and design, weather and the story of beauty: painting as a way of life for Mark Alsterlind '76
Summer 2012
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Medicine at 13,000 feet
For a photo essay on a medical-aid expedition high in the Andes, Mike Larremore '08 travels to Huancavelica, Peru.
Summer 2012
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Shine a light
Eight hundred years ago, Clare of Assisi traded a life of privilege for one of religious devotion. This year the University celebrates this woman and saint, whose name it bears.
Summer 2012
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A new dean for the Jesuit School of Theology
Thomas Massaro, S.J., has been welcomed as the new dean for JST.
Summer 2012
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People, prosperity, and the planet
A new fuel-cell design brings top honors to student engineers—who carry through to the finish a project they began with their mentor, Dan Strickland, who was tragically killed in a car accident last fall.
Summer 2012
Spring/Summer 2013
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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?
Mission Matters
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 ’14. 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.
