Mission Matters
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Honoring top educators
Recognizing exceptional members of the SCU community for their scholarship, teaching, and leadership in 2011.
Winter 2012 | FACULTY & STAFF
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New from SCU Faculty
Fabio López-Lázaro's The Misfortunes of Alonso Ramírez, editor Aparajita Nanda's Black California: A Literary Anthology, and Judith Dunbar's The Winter's Tale, along with others, are featured.
Winter 2012 | BOOKS
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The Winter's Tale: an interview with Judith Dunbar
Shakespeare scholar Judith Dunbar on the Bard and tragicomedy, strong women, and stage direction. An interview by Jon Teel '12.
Winter 2012 | BOOKS
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Future imperfect
Gen-Xers and Millennials unite! As journalist Barbara Kelley '70 shows in the book she co-authored with her daughter, you have nothing to lose but your angst over not having it all.
Winter 2012 | BOOKS
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Bribes, bombs, and outright lies
Legendary lawyer Clarence Darrow comes to campus—and shows that ethical issues raised in the Trial of the Century remain as vexing today as they did when spittoons lined the courthouse floor.
Winter 2012 | LAW
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Welcome home, Fr. Rewak
SCU's poet-president William Rewak, S.J., returns to the Mission Campus as chancellor.
Fall 2011
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Comings and goings
Welcome to a new provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, a new director for the Ignatian Center, and farewell to Don Dodson.
Fall 2011
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Lost and found
Eighty-eight artists from 30 countries worked in media both ancient and new to create art inspired by the Dalai Lama. The exhibit, The exhibit, Missing Peace: Artists Consider the Dalai Lama, was on campus through Dec. 14, 2011.
Fall 2011
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Up, up, and away
Further nanosatellite adventures in the cosmos—with SCU students at Mission Control.
Fall 2011
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A dazzling (and new!) first impression
Prepare to be dazzled by two new buildings rising on the Mission Campus: the Patricia A. and Stephen C. Schott Admission and Enrollment Services Building—and a brand new Graham Hall.
Fall 2011
Winter 2013
Table of contents
Features
To catch a thief
A young mathematician at SCU has helped equip police in Santa Cruz and L.A. with an algorithm that predicts where crimes might happen next. Is this the future of policing?
How to avoid a bonfire of the humanities
A veteran chronicler of Silicon Valley looks at why the high-tech industry needs—and wants—folks who know how to tell a story.
The play’s the thing
Kurds, Arabs, countrymen: Shakespeare Iraq brings the Bard to Ashland like you’ve never heard him.
Mission Matters
Heart of the matter
A statue that’s gazed on the Mission Gardens for 130 years gets a much-needed restoration. As layers of paint are peeled away, stories of the past emerge.
All work and all play
They make Erik Hurtado ’13 WCC player of the year and the No. 5 pick in pro soccer’s draft.
Got MOOC?
There’s global interest in a Massive Open Online Course in business ethics.
