Santa Clara University is a top producer of U.S. Fulbright students
The Fulbright Program recently announced the complete list of colleges and universities that produced the most 2009-10 U.S. Fulbright Fellows.
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Measuring the "Other" Bottom Line
Conference at Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society to Explore Metrics to Measure the "Social Impact" of Socially Beneficial Businesses.
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Finance Professor Hoje Jo Named Moskowitz Prize Winner
Hoje Jo, associate professor of finance, and his two co-authors have won the prestigious Moskowitz Prize for quantitative research into socially responsible investing. It is the second year in a row a Santa Clara University Professor has won the award.
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Innocence Projects at Santa Clara University and California Western to Share $2 Million Grant to Help Exonerate Wrongfully Convicted Inmates in California
The Northern California Innocence Project (NCIP) at Santa Clara University School of Law and the California Innocence Project (CIP) at California Western School of Law in San Diego will receive a $2.4 million grant to administer a massive DNA testing program titled the "Post-Conviction DNA Testing Assistance Program."
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EPA Recognizes Santa Clara University as a Leading Green Power Purchaser
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has recognized Santa Clara University as one of the top universities to reduce its carbon footprint.
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Common Ground for People of All Faiths
Oct. 30 Conference at Santa Clara University explores the role of contemplation in religion and health. Speakers will address how Silicon Valley leaders and others use meditation to combat stress and improve productivity and health.
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Santa Clara University Graduates Join JVC Northwest in 2009
Recent Graduates Dedicate the Next Year of Their Lives to Serving as Jesuit Volunteers.
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Team California Wins Third Place in the 2009 Solar Decathlon
Team California is getting its day in the sun, after winning second place in engineering and third place overall at the U.S. Department of Energy's 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
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Santa Clara University School of Law to Honor Two Human Rights Advocates at the Sixth Annual Diversity Gala
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct 15, 2009 – Santa Clara University School of Law will honor two outstanding leaders who have consistently fought for equality and human rights during their careers. The Santa Clara University School of Law Social Justice and Human Rights Awards will be presented Tuesday, October 20, to California Supreme Court Associate Justice Carlos Moreno and UnCommon Law founder Keith Wattley, J.D.’99 at the University’s sixth annual Diversity Gala: A Celebration of Diversity in the Legal Profession.
Justice Carlos Moreno was sworn in as associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on October 18, 2001, following his nomination by Gov. Gray Davis. This achievement capped a highly successful career track spanning from deputy Los Angeles city attorney to municipal judge in Compton to Los Angeles County Superior Court justice, and to federal district court judge.
In 1997, Moreno received the Criminal Justice Superior Court Judge of the Year Award from the Los Angeles County Bar Association, and in 2003 the Roger J. Traynor Appellate Justice of the Year Award from the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles.
Justice Moreno is being honored as a judicial pioneer, as one of the state’s few Latino judges who broke barriers for other Latino lawyers at all levels of the judicial spectrum. In addition, his dissenting opinion in Strauss v. Horton, asserting the right of gay and lesbian Californians to recognized legal marriages has been hailed as a historic dissent by many civil-rights advocates and legal analysts. In addition, Justice Moreno chairs the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care.
Keith Wattley, J.D. ’99, is the founder of UnCommon Law, which helps prisoners challenge unlawful prison conditions, including the parole consideration process for lifers. He began advocating for the rights of prisoners and parolees as a law student intern at the Prison Law Office in 1998. As an attorney, Wattley has represented thousands of prisoners in both individual and class-action litigation involving mental health care, religious freedom, excessive force, prison infirmary licensing standards, medical access, gang validation, post-release civil commitment, parole for lifers, and visitation and parole revocation proceedings.
One of Wattley’s primary goals with UnCommon Law is to help educate and empower prisoners and their supporters to become effective advocates for themselves.
Besides recognizing the work of these two outstanding men for the cause of equality, social justice, and human rights, the Diversity Gala also provides students an opportunity to build valuable relationships with members of the legal profession.
WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
WHERE: Adobe Lodge, Santa Clara University
500 El Camino Real
Santa Clara, CA 95053
WHO: Students, faculty, and alumni of Santa Clara Law, and members of the bench and bar
The Diversity Gala is sponsored by leading corporate law firms with title sponsor, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, providing generous support.
About Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located 40 miles south of San Francisco in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its 8,758 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus masters and law degrees, and engineering Ph.D.s. Distinguished nationally by one of the highest graduation rates among all U.S. masters universities, California’s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice. For more information, see www.scu.edu.
About Santa Clara Law
Santa Clara University School of Law, founded in 1911 on the site of California’s oldest operating higher-education institution, is dedicated to educating lawyers who lead with a commitment to excellence, ethics, and social justice. One of the nation’s most diverse law schools, Santa Clara Law offers its 975 students an academically rigorous program, including graduate degrees in international law and intellectual property law; combined J.D./MBA and J.D./MSIS degrees; and certificates in intellectual property law, international law, and public interest and social justice law. Santa Clara Law is located in the world-class business center of Silicon Valley, and is distinguished nationally for our top-ranked program in intellectual property. For more information, see www.law.scu.edu
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SCU Media Relations
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Santa Clara University Kicks-Off 2009 Solar Decathlon in Washington, D.C.
SANTA CLARA, Calif. Oct. 8, 2009 - Let the games begin! For the next eight days, students from Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts in San Francisco will face-off against hundreds of others from the U.S., Canada, and Europe to prove to the world that their solar-powered home is one lean, mean, energy-efficient machine.
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Ready, Get Set, Rebuild! SCU Students Reassemble Solar House in Washington, D.C.
SCU students are working furiously in Washington, D.C., to get their 800-square-foot solar-powered house ready for an international showdown.
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Santa Clara University Law Students to Hold Forum Oct. 8 as a Call for Young Adults Participation in Health Care Debate
Two Santa Clara Law students are hoping to draw more students into the health-care reform debate by hosting a forum Oct. 8.
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Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to Speak on Global Security Thursday, Oct. 15 at Santa Clara University - While Celebrating Her 30th Reunion
Former Arizona Governor and current Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will give a speech on global security issues at her alma mater, Santa Clara University, on October 15 at 7:30 p.m.
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And They're Off!
The long days, weeks, and months of heavy lifting, sawing, and hammering have paid off for Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts students who spent their spring quarter and summer vacation building an 800-square-foot house. The students said goodbye to their solar-powered home on Sept. 15, as they watched the trucks carrying it drive off campus and head to Washington, D.C.
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Grand Reunion For More Than 1,000 SCU Alumni
More than 1,000 Santa Clara University alumni from all over the country are expected to flock to the Silicon Valley campus in three weeks, taking part in Santa Clara University's Grand Reunion weekend.
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Santa Clara County's Childhood Hunger Problem To Be Explored, Quantified at Second Annual Hunger Issues Forum
The theme of the second annual Santa Clara County Hunger Issues Forum at Santa Clara University is The Economic Toll of Childhood Hunger.
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Students Show-Off Their Solar-Powered House at Santa Clara University
The solar panels are up, the kitchen cabinets are in, and the doors are open to the ultimate energy-efficient, solar-powered house built by students from Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts.
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Santa Clara University Continues to Score Well in National Survey
In its annual ranking, "America's Best Colleges 2010," U.S. News & World Report highlighted Santa Clara University as one of a group of 80 colleges and universities known for a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates.
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A New Santa Clara University Program Attracts Innovative Thinkers to Study Socially Responsible Investing, Business Ethics, and Risk Management
A new two-year project at Santa Clara University's Leavey School of Business will encourage undergraduate and graduate level education and research in socially responsible investing and innovation in managing financial risk.
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Santa Clara University's de Saisset Museum to Offer Eclectic Mix of Landscapes, Prints, and Sculptures This Fall
The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University presents three collections from September 26 to December 4: Art of Richard Mayhew: Journey's End, A Sense of Place: Location/Inspiration, and The Eclectic Eye: Works from a Private Collection.
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Santa Clara University School of Law Welcomes a Diverse, Academically Strong New Class
The largest pool of applicants since 2004 has yielded an academically strong and ethnically diverse class of first-year law students at Santa Clara University School of Law.
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Social Entrepreneurs From Around the World Come to Santa Clara University to Learn How to Grow Their Business
Santa Clara University's Center for Science, Technology, and Society will soon kick off a two-week program as part of its Global Social Benefit Incubator, in which venture capitalists and technology executives trade ideas with social entrepreneurs from around the world.
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Obama Administration's Top Tech Chief Joins Key Tech Legislators for Conference on Legislative Priorities, Aug. 5 at Santa Clara University
Aneesh Chopra, the nation's first Chief Technology Officer, joins three top technology legislators from Washington, D.C. at the third annual State of the Net West conference at Santa Clara University, August 5.
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Santa Clara University Names Vice President of Enrollment Management
SANTA CLARA, Calif. - July 29, 2009. Santa Clara University President Michael Engh, S.J., has named Michael B. Sexton as the University's new vice president for enrollment management.
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Santa Clara University Featured in the New 2010 Edition of The Princeton Review Guidebook: "The Best 371 Colleges"
Santa Clara, Calif., July 29, 2009-Santa Clara University is one of the country's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features SCU in the new 2010 edition of its annual guidebook, "The Best 371 Colleges."
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Santa Clara University Grads Are Among the Highest Paid in the Country, a New Survey Says
Survey finds that Broncos with bachelor's degrees are in the top four percent of nearly 600 schools for starting and mid-career salaries.
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Santa Clara University Biology Major Named Top Cadet at Warrior Forge Training for Future Army Officers
Biology major and incoming senior Benny Tran was honored as the top cadet in his regiment at the Leader Development and Assessment Course in Ft. Lewis, Wash., earlier this summer. Tran was among thousands of Army ROTC students training and testing at the 29-day program required for cadets to become Army lieutenants.
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Students Invite Gov. Schwarzenegger to Their Solar House
Students from Santa Clara University and California College of the Arts create a video, inviting Gov. Schwarzenegger to the solar-powered house they're building.
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Santa Clara University Recognized As Energy Innovator
Santa Clara University and three Santa Clara businesses were recognized as leading energy innovators for their efforts in 2008.
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