Santa Clara University

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

• Jack Rasmus

  Jack Rasmus (Economics) was quoted in the Fars News Agency (Tehran) about Moody's downgrade of Britain's bond rating.

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• Bruno Ruviaro

  Bruno Ruviaro (Music) and his effort to integrate computers into the traditional ensemble of composing and performing were featured in a Silicon Valley Metro article called "Laptop Orchestra."

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• Catherine Sandoval

  Catherine Sandoval (Law) was floated as one of the "names under discussion" to be the next FCC chairman, by Time magazine.

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• Stephanie Bravo

  Stephanie Bravo (OMC) was featured in a widely reprinted San Jose Mercury News story, for her White House-honored startup-- StudentMentor.org.

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• Mick McCarthy, Thomas Cattoi, Sally Vance-Trembath and Elizabeth Drescher

  The shocking news that Pope Benedict XVI would resign generated scores of media interviews and articles by Santa Clara faculty. Mick McCarthy (Ignatian Center) discussed the news with every major local TV station:  CBS5; NBC Bay Area; KTVU Fox 2; and ABC7. Thomas Cattoi (JST) appeared in several dozen newspaper, website or TV stories after he was interviewed by the San Jose Mercury News; Bay City News; KLIV radio; KSSB radio; ABC7; Catholic Voice, KTVU-2 and Univision. Sally Vance-Trembath (Religious Studies) was a guest on a KQED Forum program focused on the Pope and was quoted in a page 1 San Francisco Chronicle story about potential successors. Elizabeth Drescher (Religious Studies) wrote an article about the Pope's legacy for Religion Dispatches magazine, which also ran in Democratic Underground.

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• Nicholas Ladany

  Nicholas Ladany (Education & Counseling Psych) was featured on an ABC Sunday morning talk show, about the effects of gun violence on children.

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• Kristin Heyer

  Kristin Heyer (Religious Studies) co-authored an op-ed in the San Jose Mercury News about how immigration reform is a matter of "family values" because of the current policy's devastating impact on families. She also talked with AP about a conflict for Catholic bishops' between their strong support for immigration reform and government proposals to offer family-related immigration help to gay couples. The story ran in more than 200 papers or sites.

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• Dennis Gordon and Jim Cottrill

  Dennis Gordon and Jim Cottrill (Political Science) as well as several SCU students were interviewed by KTVU, KNTV and KCBS radio about the State of the Union speech. Several media outlets also previewed the watch party organized by student Ariana Dennis (RLC).

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• Tseming Yang

  Tseming Yang (Law) wrote an op-ed urging a balanced approach to energy investment, which appeared in more than 40 papers across the country, including the Kansas City Star, Anchorage Daily News, and the Orange County Register.

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• Jerry Shapiro

  Jerry Shapiro (Counseling Psychology) wrote an article featured in the Huffington Post with advice for men to understand romantic expectations on Valentine's Day.

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