Stories of service, leadership, and healing during a global pandemic.

Teaching Teachers
How Santa Clara University is preparing future teachers for a drastically different classroom.

Letter From Laos
Public Health major Hana Seastedt ’20 watches impact of her field unfolding, half a world away.

Don’t Use Pandemic as Pretext for Expelling Refugees
In a Mercury News Op-Ed, professor of law Evangeline Abriel says the current pandemic illustrates conflicts that can arise between individual rights and the needs of the larger population.

Teaching From Another Time Zone
How a far-flung SCU faculty member is rallying distance learning during COVID-19.

Economic Meltdown 2020 vs 2008
Nikita Sushil Kumar '16 on how the recession and recovery are impacting India's healthcare delivery.

The Shift to Remote and What's Ahead for Fall: Your Turn
Marilyn Edelstein, an associate professor of English at Santa Clara University, was quoted in an article by Inside Higher Ed.

Accompaniment in Crisis
Miller Center supporting alumni during COVID-19.

These Two Alums Are In It Together, While Staying Apart
Lisa Cooper ’90 and Quentin Cooper J.D. ’97 MBA ’98 are juggling their large family, marriage, and busy careers while Lisa shelters in place alone to continue working in health care.

Mindfulness, In Miniature
SCU psychology professor Shauna Shapiro produces mini mindfulness videos to help first-responders during the pandemic.

Better Together
Students Tap World Connections As New Generation Unites To Battle COVID-19

How To Help The People Who (Used To) Help You
Ann Skeet of the Markkula Center is quoted in an NPR article on how to support workers who aren't able to work during the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 Analogies For The Times
How our behavior in a crisis can define us.

Graduating from Grief to Gratitude
Coming to terms with an incomplete ending to college.
Bend It Like the Bay Area: Doctors See Flatter Curve After Two Weeks of Social Isolation
Stephen Parodi ’92, an infectious disease doctor and associate executive director with The Permanente Medical Group in Northern California, discusses the impact of social isolation in the Bay.
MOBI Introduces Accelerated Course
To support remote learners, My Own Business Institute combined its 10 most essential sessions to create an accelerated program titled Quick Start Entrepreneur.
Get Ready for a Post Coronavirus World
Hersh Shefrin explains why the economy will never be the same.
The Holy Days Challenge Us to Hope in the Face of Loss and Grieving from Coronavirus
Santa Clara President Kevin O’Brien, S.J., and University of San Francisco President Paul Fitzgerald, S.J., co-write an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.
What Does It Mean, to Say Goodbye to a Place?
Johnson Scholar Ashley Ricks ’20 copes with a senior year, interrupted.
Top CEOs Should Give Away Their 2020 Pay to the Coronavirus Fight
Millions of dollars for U.S. workers, cities and towns if corporate leaders do their part, writes associate law Stephen F. Diamond in a MarketWatch article.
How the Coronavirus Pandemic Inspires Us to be More Ethical at Work and in Life
10 ways companies can be more attentive and responsive to people’s needs.
The Economic Tusnami of COVID-19
Macroeconomics is not an experimental science; we learn from the experiments given to us by history. The COVID-19 pandemic will be one of the defining macroeconomic events of the 21st century.
Why Some People Prepare for COVID-19—and Some Don’t
Assistant Professor David Feldman discusses research on two factors separating who protects themselves from who doesn't.
Belonging, Sacrifice, and COVID-19
During a time of fear and anxiety, JST Professor Julie Rubio urges people to share so that we all have enough.
‘My first question every time I see a new patient now is: Could this be COVID-19?’
Seattle doctor Nicholas Johnson ’05 reflects on being on the front lines.
Five Ethical Basics in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic
What’s the right thing to do when you find yourself in the middle of a pandemic? David E. DeCosse, director of the Religious & Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethic, examines this question.
‘A Hope That Will Not Disappoint’
On SCU’s 169th Anniversary, President Kevin O’Brien, S.J., asks if we can find a message from God in our isolation.
Coronavirus: How You Can Help Others
Assistant professor of computer engineering Maya Ackerman offers advice on how to offer a helping hand during a time of social isolation.
Stay Safe, Stay Together
Faculty experts host a panel discussion on the best ways to stay mentally and physically healthy during the Coronavirus outbreak.
How to Contain the Virus of Racism During Coronavirus Outbreak
Being Asian in the midst of coronavirus means being scared for our health while simultaneously facing unpredictable racism and xenophobia. So, how do we cope? Assistant Professor Sherry Wang offers strategies in an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle.