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Impromptu Solidarity

The 2010 economics alumna spent a powerful month helping Syrian refugees

2010 economics alumna Colleen Sinsky spent a powerful month helping refugees from Syria, and plans to keep using her SCU-honed social conscience and creative writing skills for the cause of social justice

University Art Exhibit Honors Mexico's Missing 43

Silhouettes honor violence victims, remind campus they were "students like you"

The San Jose Mercury News wrote a feature story about the art exhibit launched Jan. 2, 2016, at SCU, to commemorate 43 Mexican college students feared dead since Sept. 2014.

Finding Comfort in Discomfort

SCU students participating in Global Medical Brigades help eliminate obstacles between medical care and those in need.

Virtue and Purpose in Business

Leavey School of Business students will learn firsthand from seasoned executives how to apply personal virtues and purpose in their careers.

Social Entrepreneurship: A Look Back, A Look Ahead

Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship invited leaders in social entrepreneurship and impact investing to share their thoughts about the current state of the sector and upcoming trends.

Ready to Roll

Students coming out of SCU’s communication program find themselves on top of the digital-filming world.

Visionary Data Wrangler

Prolific prof leads research in a burgeoning field where finance and big data intersect.

Changing the Stats

Jasmine Cashbaugh ’16 Ph.D. is working to change the stats for women in STEM with research using robots, drones, and kiwis.

Is There a Common Good in Our Common Home?

A new podcast from the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education initiates conversations around pressing questions of justice facing our world.

Is There a Common Good in Our Common Home?

Ignatian Center's INTEGRAL podcast explores challenging issues and questions facing society

A new podcast from the Ignatian Center for Jesuit Education initiates conversations around pressing questions of justice facing our world

A Legacy at SCU

You can see evidence of John A. ’60 and Susan Sobrato’s generosity throughout Santa Clara University.

Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation

The University’s largest-ever gift, $100 million from John A. and Susan Sobrato, will fund a 300,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility for transformational STEM education.

The patriarch and matriarch of one of Silicon Valley’s most prominent families in real-estate development and philanthropy have made a gift of $100 million to Santa Clara University for a 300,000 square-foot "campus within a campus" for STEM.

STEM in the News

A compilation of STEM-related stories in the media featuring Santa Clara faculty, staff, and students.

Gift from Sobratos for New STEM Facility

Santa Clara University plans to build an ambitious new science, technology, engineering and math hub, backed by a record $100 million gift from Susan and John A. Sobrato '60.

Statement on Recent Executive Order

SCU President Michael E. Engh, S.J., issues a statement on the recent executive order from the White House on immigration.

Technology and the Ethical Imagination

A new partnership between the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and the Tech Museum of Innovation will help people identify and respond to ethical questions presented by technology.

Be an Active Bystander

Three big tips you can use to actively intervene and stop sexual assault before it happens

Students from the Violence Prevention Program give guidance on how to help prevent sexual assault before it happens

An Uncloudy Future

President Michael Engh, S.J., outlined points of optimism and hope for Santa Clara in his 2017 State of the University address.

In Terms of Refugees, History Should Repeat Itself

Student Edward Obasi says the U.S. should allow entrance to more Syrian Refugees

First year student Edward Obasi Lewis gives his take on the world immigration crisis.

Assembling a Village

Electrical engineering student Naeem Turner-Bandele ’18 looks to the hidden histories of the past to find inspiration and motivation to help shape the future.

Come Together

Environmental Studies and Sciences professor Michelle Marvier reflects on how the newly announced Sobrato Campus for Discovery and Innovation will impact STEM education on the Mission Campus.

Ethics Bowl Team Takes 4th at Nationals

SCU ethics team wins a trophy in national Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition—the first time a California team holds this distinction.

Q&A on Recent RSO Decision

Answers to questions regarding a student petition to establish a Registered Student Organization

The University shared answers to common questions about a recent decision

Bronco Pride Breaks Records

The Fourth Annual Day of Giving netted $2.27 million from 5,324 donors for schools, programs, centers, and scholarships at Santa Clara University.

Engineering Expectations

Set high expectations for women engineers, and they’ll meet them

Engineering student Shiyin Lim says women should be held to the same high standards as men

Pathway to Law

Parental inspiration, internal drive, and generous support lead a first-generation student to fulfill his dream of becoming a lawyer.

Engineering Expectations

Engineering student Shiyin Lim ’19 says women should be held to the same high standards as men.

Troll Patrol

How Two SCU Law Professors are Shaping an Issue Before the Supreme Court

Two SCU Law professors helped shape an influential patent-law case before the Supreme Court.

Decision Time

Mike Sexton, SCU's vice president for Enrollment Management and Eva Blanco Masias, the dean of undergraduate admission, discuss Preview Days for admitted students.

Troll Patrol

Two SCU Law professors are helping shape an influential patent-law case before the Supreme Court.

Tiny House Takeaways

Seven lessons I learned from building a tiny house

Senior civil engineering major Anna Harris talks lessons learned from the rEvolve House build

Recovery of Faith in a New Direction

Ethicist David DeCosse considers the distinction between religion and God in the the novel and movie Silence.

Poet Laureate to Address Class of 2017

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera will speak to Santa Clara students at the June 17 graduation celebration.

Old-school Necessity Becomes New-school Trend

A Santa Clara bioengineering and chemistry major on designing eco fashion.

Sustainable Styling

Old-school Necessity Becomes New-school Trend

Senior Jo Gopinath shares her path to designing "eco fashion"

Winning the Pulitzer

Tatiana Sanchez ’10 got her start in journalism courses and The Santa Clara student newspaper before going on to win a Pulitzer Prize.

Ethically Speaking

Ethics. We all hear about it, but do we really understand what it means to the world around us?

What are the implications to the decisions we make and why does ethics even matter? We sit down with Kirk O. Hanson, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, to get the answers.

Owning It

At the Own It Women’s Summit on April 30, Heidi LeBaron Leupp ’84 speaks on confidence and owning your strengths.

New Dean Appointed for SCU’s School of Engineering

Santa Clara welcomes Alfonso Ortega as the new dean for the School of Engineering.

Loss into Gain

Four ways you can win when you lose

Student athlete Jenna Roering shares how she turned a loss in to a win.

The Location of Innovation

Carrick Young ’17 is riding a new wave of momentum for real estate education at SCU.

The Business of Real Estate

Leavey School of Business Dean Caryn Beck-Dudley on SCU’s new initiatives for real estate education.

The Big Cat

Saying goodbye to Ken Sears ’55, the first basketball player to appear on the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Unbelievable Opportunities

Santa Clara University School of Engineering's new leader talks about the future of STEM in an interdisciplinary global world.

The Spark of Electrical Engineering

Electrical Engineering Professor Tim Healy has spent five decades watching SCU engineering grow. And he's excited to see what comes next.

Tiny House Takeaways

Civil engineering major Anna Harris ’17 talks about lessons learned from building the rEvolve House.

Can Technology Help Rescue Democracy?

A series of articles in The Atlantic, spurred by two SCU educators, looks at technology's impact on democracy.

Can Technology Help Rescue Democracy?

A series of articles in The Atlantic, spurred by two SCU educators, looks at technology’s impact on democracy.

Transforming Our World

SCU’s College of Arts and Sciences celebrates the accomplishments of its teacher-scholars and students with the annual College Showcase.

Amplifying the Language of the Disciplines

The second annual Latino Education Summit imagined a better future for English language learners and all students.

Celebrating An Age-old Tradition

Sikh Student Association at Santa Clara University hosts a meal

The communal "langar" meal honors the Sikh tradition and Jesuit ideal of social justice

The Future of Bronco Athletics

SCU’s director of athletics, Renee Baumgartner, discusses what’s in store for Bronco sports.

Coming Home

Bronco legend Kurt Rambis ’80 inducts Steve Nash ’96 as the latest member of the SCU Hall of Fame.

A Trumpet Call to Defend the Rule of Law

Democracy requires its lawyers and its citizens to fight for its traditions and laws, former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta ’60, J.D. ’63 tells 2017 SCU law graduates.

Uniformed Service

Director and Professor of Military Science Major Jason Noble reminds us why those in uniform serve and how we can commemorate them.

Score One for the Troll Patrol

The Supreme Court decides a patent case influenced by SCU Law professors Colleen Chien and Brian Love.

Discover. Innovate.

A gift from the Leavey Foundation will help build a place to develop skills and ways of thinking and solving problems. That will shape the next generation of leaders for Silicon Valley and beyond.

Mission: Possible

The Class of 2017 has big plans as they move from the Mission Campus into the world.

You Are That New Day

U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera gave a sweeping poetic address to more than 10,000 family, friends, and members of SCU’s Class of 2017.

The Message We Need

In 1982, Jesuit Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría challenged universities to be vehicles for transformative change in a powerful commencement address.

Unpopular prophetic graduation message: Universities must be vehicles for transformative change

Changing the Narrative

In her valedictory address, Erika Francks ’17 encouraged fellow graduates to put values over success in their future endeavors.

Heat Wave: Campus Fun Facts

Record heat levels bring to mind SCU’s numerous tactics to cool buildings in an energy-efficient manner.

A Bigger Stage

First priest, then social worker, CEO, and teller of stories: Jim Purcell on what drew him to Santa Clara—and what Jesuit education can be.

New to SCU

Orientation leaders share their experiences on what coming to the Mission Campus for orientation meant to them.

School of Business Launches New Online MBA

A program starting in January offers fully online MBA classes, a “Silicon Valley Professional” component, and opportunities to network.

Bronco River Royalty

A quarterfinal finish for men’s crew in the Henley Royal Regatta on the River Thames. Call it the Wimbledon of rowing.

Life in the Shadows

Big data knows more about your life than you realize. In Data Shadows (Dowd Building, July 24-Sept. 21), artist AnnieLaurie Erickson explores the real impact of your digital identity.

Women Leaders in Tech Law

Colleen V. Chien and Laura Norris J.D. ’97 named 2017 Women Leaders in Tech Law.

Lisa Kloppenberg’s Term as Law Dean Extended Five Years

Citing her success in law school programming, capital projects, and relationship building, Provost Dennis Jacobs announced that Lisa Kloppenberg has been reappointed for a second five-year term as dean of the Santa Clara University School of Law.

Fruit of the Vine

How Rebecca Kaduru ’09 turned farming passion fruit into a program to empower girls in Uganda

A Message of Solidarity

SCU President Michael E. Engh, S.J., and Provost Dennis Jacobs send a message of solidarity after the tragic acts of violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Total Solar Eclipse 2017: Everything You Need to Know

On Aug. 21, 2017, the United States will darken as we witness a total solar eclipse. What are solar eclipses, and what can we learn from them?

Opportunity in a Box

Katy Korsmeyer leads an effort to give Bay Area high school science teachers the supplies they need.

A Statement on DACA

SCU President Michael E. Engh, S.J., addresses recent news about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Stop Telling Me to Get Over Slavery...

Danielle Morgan, assistant professor in the Department of English, discusses the real significance of Confederate statues and why they should be taken down.

Justice Delayed, Not Denied.

Santa Clara University School of Law’s Northern California Innocence Project wins a client exoneration, using a law they helped make happen.

The Most Important Lawsuit on the Planet

It seeks no monetary damages, just solutions. And to hold accountable those who knowingly violated future generations’ rights to life, liberty, and property.

SCU’s Response to Department of Education’s Title IX Guidance Review

SCU General Counsel​ ​John Ottoboni and Vice Provost for Student Life & Dean of Students Jeanne Rosenberger address the September 7 announcement.

Hope, Heritage, and Insight

President Michael Engh, S.J. delivers the 2017 convocation address.

Top Teaching Scholars for 2017

Recognizing outstanding faculty contributions in teaching, research, and service.

Courage Central

September 1957, Little Rock, Arkansas. Nine African-American kids wanted to go to school. The 101st Airborne was sent there to help. One of those paratroopers tells the story.

Bronco Class of 2021

With over 1,400 students, the Class of 2021 is the largest class in SCU's history.

W. Kamau Bell Named Frank Sinatra Chair for 2017-18

Emmy Award-winning comedian and political satirist will kick-off his artist residency with an event on November 7.

A Day in the Life

Come to Open House 2017 and experience a day in the life of one of the most beautiful campuses in Northern California.

Recovery Won’t Happen Overnight

Florida is healing from Hurricane Irma. Kelsey Rondini ’16 is in the middle of it. On Instagram Live, Rondini shared her experience as an epidemiologist in Tampa Bay, post-Irma.

Learn, Improve, Connect, and Serve

With the season approaching, Herb Sendek and the men’s basketball team focus on four goals.

Sticky Science

Amelia Fuller and student researchers harness the power of sticky molecules to fight pollution.

NCIP Client to be Freed, With Strings

Northern California Innocence Project Client Domingo Bustos will be freed from prison, but not from blame for a crime committed by another.

Humanity at its Best

SCU students and faculty will present work highlighting the Frugal Innovation Hub’s many humanitarian projects at the IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference.

Nobel Beginnings

Hersh Shefrin, Richard Thaler, and the beginning of the fight to have behavioral economics taken seriously. There was yelling involved.

After the Fire

Cardinal Newman High School in Santa Rosa was devastated by wildfires. Top priority now: Take care of one another.

Best Big Mag in the Country

And Alumni Magazine of the Year. Top honors for Santa Clara Magazine.

Pull Up a Chair

Frank Sinatra Chair and sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell wants to hear what the world has to say.

Feet to the Fire

This winter, W. Kamau Bell will show students in African American Literature: African American Comedy the power of satire on society.

Keep it Going

Comedy is a powerful icebreaker. Julia Joyce ’19 is looking forward to seeing W. Kamau Bell engage a broad audience and start a meaningful conversation on race.

Master of Comedy

A different kind of MC: sociopolitical comedian W. Kamau Bell brings hip hop and comedy together in conversation with students Nov. 7.

No. 22 Broncos Win Visit Stockton Pacific Invitational

Led by senior Hayden Shieh, Santa Clara men’s golf led wire-to-wire to claim its second team title in three events this season.

Haunted

Brett Tomberlin ’03 brings the tale of heiress and San Jose legend Sarah Winchester to the big screen in Winchester. Helen Mirren stars in the Feb. 2018 release.

A Greater Awareness

Interim Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion Margaret Russell maps out her goals for her new role at SCU.

Is Facebook the New Rorschach?

What does a comment, post, or share reveal about you as a person?

Bell in the Bay

Sinatra artist-in-residence W. Kamau Bell takes on racism, politics, and fatherhood in a sold-out performance.

My Veterans Day

Specialist Jim Olwell ’17 reflects on being a veteran and a student at Santa Clara University.

The Trust Project Helps Readers Identify Reliable News

Google, Facebook, Bing and Twitter to use these “Trust Indicators” to highlight credible journalism.

Fonts and Emoji

Emoji are a universal language, but they haven’t always represented the world. Agustin Fonts ’08 did his part to fix that.

Women’s Soccer Gets Past Vanderbilt in Second Round of NCAA Tournament

Maddy Gonzalez ’21 scores two goals as the Broncos advance to the third round for the second consecutive year.

Santa Clara University Alum Wins Prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

Sean Reilly ’16 was one of 32 American Rhodes Scholars for 2018. He’s the third from SCU in the past eight years.

10 Ways to Maximize the College Experience

Psychology Professor Thomas G. Plante writes the rulebook for students who want to make the most of their time in college.

Give Them a Voice

The author of The Kite Runner talks writing, refugees, and his hopes and fears for Afghanistan. An interview with writer Khaled Hosseini ’88.

Sweet Sixteen for 2017

Women’s Soccer takes its NCAA tourney run to the third round before falling to South Carolina.

Markkula Ethics Center’s Kirk Hanson to Step Down

Hanson has led the preeminent university-based ethics center in the world for the past 16 years.

‘Student by Day, NASA Satellite Operator by Night’

NBC Bay Area reports on program that allows Santa Clara University engineering students to operate NASA satellite.

Trust in Documentary Filmmaking

Filmmaker and professor of communication Mike Whalen discusses the importance of creating trustworthy documentary films.

Leavey School of Business Undergraduate Program Ranked No. 16 in the Nation

The undergraduate business program at Leavey School of Business has been ranked among the best in the nation by Poets&Quants for Undergrads’ “Best Undergraduate Business Schools” exclusive ranking.

Kelsey Turnbow ’20 Scores First-Team All-West Region Honors

The freshman forward helped lead Santa Clara to a Sweet 16 finish in the NCAA tournament.

Et Tu Isotope?

When SCU professors try to explain their research without jargon or big words, the results are  thought-provoking, and sometimes hilarious.

The Perils of Repealing Net Neutrality

Two Santa Clara Law professors see risks in repealing the 2015 Open Internet Order.

Virtual Biology

Grace Ling ’19 pitches an educational virtual reality game called “Cell-fie” in the Imagine That! competition.

My First Christmas

How my family chose to join in on the American holiday of Christmas.

Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays? It Doesn’t Really Matter.

Kevin O’Brien, S.J. believes living a Merry Christmas is more important than saying it. His video on the debate has more than 10 million views.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays

On behalf of the campus community, SCU President Michael E. Engh, S.J., extends wishes for a very merry Christmas, happy holidays, and a peaceful and prosperous new year.

The Lens of Faith

The visual and spiritual richness of the Christmas and holiday season rises in part from celebrating faith in a way that is meaningful.

Magic in Motion: Julie Ertz ’14 named 2017 Player of the Year

Former Bronco becomes the third player to earn both the U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year and Young Female Player of the Year (2012).

Grace on Ice

We’re rooting for Polina Edmunds ’20 in the U.S. Figure Skating Championships.

Little Things

William Rewak, S.J. shares a special holiday message about being grateful for the little things in life.