Spring 2012
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What will you be?
San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy has found a work-study program that gives low-income students what they need. Starting with a bigger view of the world.
Spring 2012
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Bucky Bronco confidential
Who wears the costume today may be classified information. But here’s one secret revealed: how Bucky came to be.
Spring 2012
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Talking Dust Bowl blues
The ghost of Woody Guthrie stalks the stage in a one-man show starring Rob Tepper '00.
Spring 2012
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Why women professors?
Marking 50 years of coeducation at Santa Clara—and recognizing that it’s not just the composition of students that has changed profoundly.
Spring 2012
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Evidence of things unseen
Dark matter makes up 85 percent of the material in our universe. It envelops our galaxy—yet scientists have never seen it. That's why physicist Betty Young is looking—right here on Earth.
Spring 2012
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The stories we tell
Members of the Santa Clara community gathered in the Mission Church on Feb. 15 for the annual State of the University address by President Michael Engh, S.J. Here are edited excerpts.
Spring 2012
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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
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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
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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
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Opening new doors in the Philippines
Introducing Casa Bayanihan—a place to learn, work, and be changed forever.
Spring 2012
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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.
