Ahead of the Curve

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

With a little bit of this, a dash of that, and a sprinkling of something else, humans are customizing their own spiritual traditions. But when does it become less about spirituality and more about shopping?

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

Can we stop poor outcomes by tracing trauma’s path in the brain? SCU’s Lindsay Halladay wants to map it.

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

In seeing the deepest part of myself in my mother, I have realized that growing is a never-ending and ever-changing part of life.

For decades, the internet has shaped the way we communicate, but two years of us being extremely online hit fast forward on its real-world impact.

There has long been a lack of diversity among therapists, creating an unhealthy cycle where many people can’t find the help they need. What are we doing to disrupt that?

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.

What’s it like to get out after spending 25 years in prison for a crime you didn’t commit? Arturo Jimenez, freed by efforts of the Northern California Innocence Project, explains.

A tattoo as an act of reclamation reminds not only of one’s ability to survive but also of vulnerability. The wolf on Maggie Levantovskaya’s skin is also a sign of the wolf within.

Living without a home is deadly in Silicon Valley. One SCU professor explores why so many die in a place of such wealth and finds the constant removal of communities of homeless people may be a danger to their lives.

When Ricardo Cortez ’07 started college, he thought he’d be an engineer. But his heart called him to express himself and his culture in art instead.