Santa Clara University

The winning capstone projects for the Santa Clara University School of Engineering Senior Design Conference 2011 included designs for affordable and sustainable building materials and techniques for Haiti; a computer application to support fair trade around the world; a surgical fire safety and prevention system, and a rugged single-seat off-road vehicle.

Santa Clara University Assistant Professor of Psychology Amara Brook studied how likely people were to change their behavior if they learned that their lifestyle was environmentally unsustainable.

One week without modern technology?! That was the order from Santa Clara University's Theatre and Dance Assistant Professor Kimberly Hill, who's the director of Hay Fever, a play set in 1925, for which I'm rehearsing.

University ROTC programs may be in the news, but Army ROTC is nothing new to Santa Clara University.

A new blog, The Big Q, hosted by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics is hoping to become a hub where students can discuss everyday - but often complicated - ethical issues among themselves, with occasional input by professionals who spend their lives thinking about such matters.