Academics & Research
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Breaking the rules
Michelle Quinn, 2 Dec 2015
Caryn Beck-Dudley is bringing her outsider experience to SCU’s Leavey School of Business
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Educated admissions
Harold Gutmann, 2 Sep 2015
After 15 years as SCU’s dean of undergraduate admission, Sandra Hayes can shed light on important trends in how the application process works. And on how some schools might get it wrong.
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The Green Knight
Christine Long Brunkhorst '83, 19 Aug 2015
Fr. Ted Rynes was more than a professor and a college advisor. He was a beacon that showed students the way to learn and write and live.
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Barcelona Siesta
Maya Kroth ’01, 1 Jul 2015
On a Fulbright to Spain, in pursuit of the meaning of sleep. In the 21st century, it’s not what it used to be.
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Taste for Yourself
Harold Gutmann, 1 Jul 2015
Taste for yourself what flavors Cuban food on the island. Listen to stories from the street. Walk the rows of a farm. You might learn a few things that textbooks and statistics and crafted political messages don’t reveal. “That is the whole reason behind experiential learning,” says Greg Baker, who led a group of 14 undergraduates to western Cuba in September.
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Atom and Molecules
SCM Staff, 1 Jul 2015
Chemist to chemist: welcoming Deborah C. Tahmassebi as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences—and thanking W. Atom Yee for a decade at the helm.
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Dean Biz
SCM Staff, 1 Jul 2015
Caryn Beck-Dudley takes the wheel as dean of the Leavey School of Business.
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No free lunch
Leon Neyfakh, 5 May 2015
Here’s a solution to prison overcrowding, says law professor W. David Ball: Make prosecutors answer for the cost of incarceration.
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May the Rhodes rise to meet you
Jeff Gire, 1 Feb 2015
On the road with Aven Satre-Meloy ’13: Turkey on a Fulbright, the White House for an internship, and heading to Oxford as SCU’s newest Rhodes Scholar
Winter 2015
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Tune it in
Danae Stahlnecker ’15 and Leah Gonzalez ’14, 1 Feb 2015
Curbing diabetes, reaching across cultures with a ukulele, and understanding a plant-insect arms race—six recent graduates embark on research and teaching fellowships through the Fulbright program and the National Science Foundation.
Winter 2015