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Tracy Seipel, 22 Mar 2023

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Free Help

New vending machine doles out life-saving spray for overdose victims

Lauren Loftus, 22 Mar 2023

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Pipeline Optimization

Play smarter, not harder: SCU partners with Regis University to produce more K-12 teachers, faster

Francesca D'Urzo ‘24, 6 Mar 2023

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Power of Pep

Santa Clara Pep Band brings the beat to game day.

Features

All photos provided by Virginia Matzek and Adrienne Ernst

Marsh Matters

When invasive species clog waterways birds, mice, end even elk feel the change. Could a team of students and researchers reverse the damage?

Always Turn Toward the Sun

How has the pandemic affected what kids know? SCU’s Kirsten Read is researching what happened when less people read to our kids.

What We Don’t Know

Clinical Professor of Law Thiadora “Dori” Pina has made it her mission to mentor and empower first-generation students at the law school.

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Generation Un-Grind

Now that hustle culture has crashed and burnt us all out, how are young people viewing their future work?

Zen and the Art of Fire Fighting

Retiring San Francisco Fire Chief Joanne Hayes-White ’86 ushered in a new era of diversity.

Bronco Grrrls

Sixty years have passed since the SCU president decided to admit women as students. They were not greeted with many open arms.

We Are the Champions

The pandemic stole an entire year of games from them. But they still won it all. An oral history of the most unlikely winners of the NCAA women’s soccer national championship.

Booked and Busy

So many Santa Clara women have found success in the male-dominated film and TV industry. We talked to five of them, at various stages in their career, on how they “made it” in Hollywood.

Gap, Minded

Out of the admitted class of 2026, SCU sees its highest percentage of female engineers in a decade.

In On It

SCU creative writing professor Kai Harris’ first book—an exploration of Black girlhood at its most traumatic and most ordinary—is already getting a lot of buzz.

Call Her a World Champion

Santa Clara's claim to the Women's World Cup: Julie Johnson ’14 and all the ones who came before.

A Number’s Worth

Chuck Cantoni ’57 may be the oldest person to swim from Alcatraz to San Francisco—all to raise money for research into a potentially deadly brain condition.

The OG Green

SCU Men's golf fans set foot on the holy land of golf this summer capping off a trip of a lifetime.

Music Above All

Erin Pearson ’05 was recruited to play soccer for Santa Clara University. But her passion for music was pulling her in a different direction.

Collaboration is Key

Jacqueline Whitham ’21 chose to support cross-disciplinary collaboration and research at SCU through $3.8 million from her family’s foundation.

Being the Light

Majid Karam ’95 finds a constant in the light mined from his family’s memories and experiences moving from war-torn Lebanon to United Arab Emirates to America in his new book.

Fight Club

The founding senseis of the Santa Clara karate club are retiring after 50 years.

Long Schott

Stephen Schott ’60 adds “top-selling author” to his long list of achievements in sports, real estate, philanthropy, and more.

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From Scratch

The new leader of SCU’s adolescent mental health concentration wants to design better mental healthcare delivery systems to help more kids, now.

Green Is the New Black

Leaders in sustainable fashion shared career advice with student designers at SCU’s popular EcoFashion Show.

Hop 2 It

How do you get from hops to beer? Sustainability interns found out by turning hops grown at SCU’s Forge Garden into “Forge Ahead,” an English-style pale ale.