Spring 2012
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What will you be?
San Francisco’s Immaculate Conception Academy has found a work-study program that gives low-income students what they need. Starting with a bigger view of the world.
Spring 2012
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Bucky Bronco confidential
Who wears the costume today may be classified information. But here’s one secret revealed: how Bucky came to be.
Spring 2012
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Talking Dust Bowl blues
The ghost of Woody Guthrie stalks the stage in a one-man show starring Rob Tepper '00.
Spring 2012
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Why women professors?
Marking 50 years of coeducation at Santa Clara—and recognizing that it’s not just the composition of students that has changed profoundly.
Spring 2012
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Evidence of things unseen
Dark matter makes up 85 percent of the material in our universe. It envelops our galaxy—yet scientists have never seen it. That's why physicist Betty Young is looking—right here on Earth.
Spring 2012
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The stories we tell
Members of the Santa Clara community gathered in the Mission Church on Feb. 15 for the annual State of the University address by President Michael Engh, S.J. Here are edited excerpts.
Spring 2012
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Here comes the sun ... and our solar decathletes
The 2013 Solar Decathlon is on! Santa Clara is competing for the third time, after third place wins in 2007 and 2009.
Spring 2012
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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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If you only have a hammer
SCU helps shape the Catholic Sustainability Toolkit for colleges nationwide. And not every problem looks like a nail.
Spring 2012
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Opening new doors in the Philippines
Introducing Casa Bayanihan—a place to learn, work, and be changed forever.
Spring 2012
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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.
