Academics & Research
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Harness the power
New programs prepare SCU students to work in the clean energy economy, to study environmental challenges, and to turn ideas into opportunities.
Spring 2012
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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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How does Apple do it?
Assistant Professor of Psychology Katerina Bezrukova finds that work-related conflicts can help solidify a climate of creativity.
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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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Faith seeking understanding
Sandra Schneiders, I.H.M, says the issue of the Resurrection is often skirted in theology, and yet it's arguably the most central tenet of the Christian faith.
Fall 2011
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Grotesque advertising stimulates creativity and pocketbooks
Grotesque advertising is seductive because it allows viewers to think more, says researcher Ed McQuarrie.
Fall 2011
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Stress and the butterfly effect
Beetles, proteins, and a Fulbright take biologist Elizabeth Dahlhoff to Finland.
Summer 2011
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Water, water everywhere
Ed Maurer has a well-earned reputation as an expert on sustainable water resources development. This year, add to that honors as a Google Fellow and Fulbright Fellow.
Summer 2011
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Make it real
A new class in "Law and Social Justice" brings the stuff of legal seminars into the undergrad classroom—and sends students out into the community to understand where theory meets the street.
Summer 2011
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Top teaching scholars
Honoring teaching, research, and service to the University in 2010
Spring 2011
Spring/Summer 2013
Table of contents
Features
Walk Across California
An epic journey whereby one foot is put in front of the other to discover, up close and personal, who and what and where is the Golden State.
Miller's Tale
To tell the story of Bob Miller ’67 is to tell the coming-of-age tale of Las Vegas itself. And it’s the chronicle of a man who served a decade as governor of Nevada. Quite a journey for the son of an illegal bookie from Chicago.
Blood. Sweat. Tears. Repeat.
Nina Acosta '82 was a tough enough cop to pass the test for the LAPD’s SWAT team. Then she learned the hard way about gender discrimination. So how did she do on Survivor?
Mission Matters
When justice is kidnapped
The 2013 Alexander Law Prize honors Chen Guangcheng, a Chinese civil-rights activist and attorney who protested government abuses—including excessive enforcement of the one-child policy—then escaped house arrest to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing.
Double trouble
Growing up tennis with Kelly Lamble ’13 and John Lamble ’13. And Bronco teams that are a force to be reckoned with nationally.
Keep the door open
For teaching and advising and a ministry that’s blessed this place for 48 years—paying tribute to Charles Phipps, S.J.
