Santa Clara University

SCU in the News is a biweekly compilation of select media highlights featuring faculty, staff or students.

• Tom Plante

  Tom Plante (Psychology) wrote an oped featured in USA Today College about how college students can give tech advice as a present to help bridge the digital divide.

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• Judy Nadler

  Judy Nadler (Markkula) commented in the Orange County Register about accusations an Orange County supervisor  was getting free advertising by sponsoring anti-theft messages.

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• Dale Larson

  Dale Larson (School of Education and Counseling Psychology) was interviewed by NBC Bay Area's Brent Cannon about the psychological impact of the Sandy Hook shooting.

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• George Mohler

  The work of George Mohler (Mathematics) for predicting crime patterns was cited in  the magazine Fast Company.

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• Jerome Baggett

  Jerome Baggett (JST) reviewed The God Problem in Christian Century.

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• Dale Achabal and Kirthi Kalyanam

  Dale Achabal (RMI/Marketing) and  Kirthi Kalyanam (RMI/Marketing) were in heavy demand by local, regional, national and even international media outlets for their insights into Black Friday and how the phenomenon has crept earlier and later into the year. Achabal spoke to or was quoted by the (Findlay, Ohio) Courier; San Jose Mercury News; Brattleboro Reformer; KTVU; ABC7 News; KLIV and KGO radio; CBS San Francisco; KOFY- TV; Patch.com; and Chinese broadcaster CCTV. He also was  quoted in two pre-Black Friday stories in the San Francisco Chronicle. Kalyanam spoke to or was quoted in several widely reprinted stories in the San Jose Mercury News; Merced Sun-Star; Seattle Times (which also ran in Bloomberg BusinessWeek); San Francisco Chronicle; Detroit News; Huffington Post; KLIV and ABC radio; KTVU Channel 2; and the Denver Post.

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• Stephen Smith and Bill Sundstrom

  Professors Stephen Smith (OMIS) and Bill Sundstrom (Economics) wrote an op-ed for the McClatchy chain of papers that appeared in more than 44 papers or sites across the country, including the Sunday Denver Post, Kansas City Star and the Chicago Tribune. They argued that the U.S.'s long-term economic and health welfare is best served by pursuing sustainable energy policies, not fracking or coal.

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• Susan Parker

  A study co-authored by Susan Parker (Accounting) about the positive impact of having a woman on the board of directors, was written up in the Wall Street Journal blog and newspaper; in Accounting Today; and in the blogs Women on Business  and Going Concern.

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• Ron Hansen

  A new book by Ron Hansen (English), "She Loves Me Not: New and Selected Stories," was the subject of numerous glowing reviews, including an extensive one in the New York Times, which called him "one of our most honored and prolific authors, living proof of how imagination can step free of every literal habitation." His book was also reviewed favorably in Kirkus Reviews and Goodreads.com. The book as well as one of the stories, Crazy, was also reviewed in Publisher's Weekly.

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• Judy Nadler

  Judy Nadler (Markkula) was quoted in a California Watch investigation about a college overbilling the state of California millions of dollars. KGO, KNTV and NBC Bay Area also ran the story. She was also quoted in a story by the Arizona Republic about charter school boards making profits by doing business with the schools they oversee.

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