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  •  Twenty global entrepreneurs chosen for summer business incubator program

    Tuesday, Apr. 7, 2009
    Twenty "social entrepreneurs" have been selected to join the seventh annual Global Social Benefit Incubator (GSBI) at Santa Clara University. The program imparts Silicon Valley management skills to social entrepreneurs from South and Central America, Africa, India, and Asia who have socially vital, emerging businesses.
  •  Biochemistry major Michael Hayes wins Goldwater Scholarship in recognition of strong scientific research skills.

    Friday, Apr. 3, 2009
    Junior biochemistry major Michael J. Hayes has won a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship, an award for students expected to one day be leaders in the fields of mathematics, natural sciences, or engineering.
  •  Documentary Witch Hunt Makes its Television Debut

    Wednesday, Apr. 1, 2009
    The award-winning documentary Witch Hunt, which features the work of the SCU-based Northern California Innocence Project in helping to free one of dozens of Bakersfield adults wrongfully imprisoned for alleged child sex abuse, airs April 12 on MSNBC. A portion of the DVD sales are slated to benefit NCIP.
  •  Marking the Moment: Michael Engh, S.J., to be inaugurated as Santa Clara University's 28th President

    Tuesday, Mar. 31, 2009
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 31, 2009 - In a ceremony full of tradition harkening back to the year of the University's founding, 1851, Fr. Michael E. Engh will be inaugurated as the 28th president of Santa Clara University at 10 a.m. on Friday, April 24. Delegates from more than 90 universities around the country, civic officials and Silicon Valley executives will be on campus to mark the moment when Engh is formally installed as president.
  •  Team California Begins Construction on the 2009 Solar Decathlon House

    Friday, Mar. 27, 2009
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 27, 2009 - Tool belts and hard hats have replaced the backpacks and the laptops of some students at Santa Clara University and California College of Arts (CCA) in San Francisco, as they began construction on a solar-powered house for the U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon.
  •  Real Life Lessons for the Real Hard Times

    Monday, Mar. 23, 2009
    SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 19, 2009 - From Asian-American studies to chemistry, college students learn it all. Santa Clara University, though, goes one step further in teaching their students everything their professors and their parents may not have taught them - life skills for the real world.
  • Deepa Arora
    Communications Director
    408-554-5125
    darora@scu.edu
  • Connie Kim Coutain
    Media Relations Assistant Director
    408-554-5126
    ccoutain@scu.edu

  • Deborah Lohse
    Media Relations Assistant Director
    408-554-5121
    dlohse@scu.edu
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