Academics & Research
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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
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Water, water, anywhere?
Heidi Williams ’06, 19 Nov 2014
Engineering's Edwin Maurer, internationally renowned expert on climate change, discusses California's drought and how we can move to a more sustainable future.
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Lead by letting go
Terri Griffith, 30 Oct 2014
Management professor Terri Griffith argues that managers need to let go of old ways that limit a company’s agility.