Web Exclusives

  • 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

  • Doing something unfamous

    Doing something unfamous

    Andy Warhol Polaroids on display at the de Saisset Museum Princess Caroline, Wayne Gretzky, and dozens more.

    Spring 2012

  • Engineering with a Mission

    Engineering with a Mission

    In conjunction with the School of Engineering’s centennial, during 2011–12 the President’s Speaker Series has brought leaders and innovators to campus to examine how engineering is changing the world. Here are a couple ways.

    Spring 2012

  • Santa Clara Mag Blog

    Santa Clara Mag Blog

    We've mothballed the old Santa Clara Mag Blog but you can still look through these archives for past stories.

  • General Joe

    General Joe

    When Joseph Peterson '72 signed up for ROTC as an undergrad, he planned to complete his military service and then move on. Nearly four decades later, he finally has: with three stars on his shoulder and having served as deputy commander of U.S. Forces Command.

    Winter 2012
     

  • From enemy to empathy

    From enemy to empathy

    Political scientist William Stover teaches students to understand volatile conflicts through firsthand experience. Thanks to virtual simulations, there aren't casualties. But there is a new way of seeing.

    Winter 2012

Winter 2013

Table of contents

Features

To catch a thief

A young mathematician at SCU has helped equip police in Santa Cruz and L.A. with an algorithm that predicts where crimes might happen next. Is this the future of policing?

How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities

A veteran chronicler of Silicon Valley looks at why the high-tech industry needs—and wants—folks who know how to tell a story.

The play’s the thing

Kurds, Arabs, countrymen: Shakespeare Iraq brings the Bard to Ashland like you’ve never heard him.

Mission Matters

Heart of the matter

A statue that’s gazed on the Mission Gardens for 130 years gets a much-needed restoration. As layers of paint are peeled away, stories of the past emerge.

All work and all play

They make Erik Hurtado ’13 WCC player of the year and the No. 5 pick in pro soccer’s draft.

Got MOOC?

There’s global interest in a Massive Open Online Course in business ethics.