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Santa Clara University, in collaboration with Montalvo Arts Center, presents XLIII: A Contemporary Requiem to honor victims of violence worldwide.

The University recently undertook two investments – a campus-based Sustainability Investment Fund and a lead position in the Silicon Valley-based “impact company” Shared-X – that aim to help reduce carbon emissions, support green technological innovations, or reduce poverty in developing countries.

Fifteen Santa Clara University alumni have recently embarked on a year of full-time service with two Jesuit Volunteer organizations, Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) and JVC Northwest.

Human rights attorney Hadar Harris has been appointed executive director of the Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University School of Law.

A special viewing of a documentary on the unlikely origins of John Paul Stevens' ascension to the U.S. Supreme Court, based on a book by SCU Law Prof. Ken Manaster, will be held Nov. 16, in Bannan Room 127 at noon.

Santa Clara University School of Law statement urges release of journalist Hossam Bahgat, who was arrested and is being detained in Egypt by military authorities for his peaceful exercise of the right to freedom of expression.

The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University will present Gold Rush, on view from January 15 through March 13, 2016.

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group – the premier organization for corporate leadership in the area, representing more than 390 companies -- is sponsoring a "Town Hall" meeting at Santa Clara University's Recital Hall, this coming Thursday, Nov. 5, from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

To mark the anniversary of Nostra Aetate, which opened up dialogue with non-Christian faiths, Santa Clara University President Michael E. Engh, S.J., has signed a statement with four other faith leaders reaffirming commitment to working together.

Antonin Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, will visit Santa Clara University’s campus Oct. 28 for a series of talks with students and members of campus.

Santa Clara University (SCU) congratulates John A. Sobrato, member of the University’s Board of Trustees and 1960 graduate, and his wife Susan, who will be awarded the Silicon Valley Leadership Group’s Spirit of Silicon Valley – Lifetime Achievement Award on October 30.

Cardinal Peter Turkson, a Vatican authority on the Pope's climate-change-focused encyclical teachings, will headline a conference at Santa Clara University Nov. 3-4

On Oct. 15, Carolyn Woo, president and CEO of the international humanitarian agency Catholic Relief Services, will talk to Santa Clara University about our planet's environmental problems from the vantage point of an agency active in 93 countries, reaching nearly 100 million people. The talk is entitled “I am climate change. I am the cause. I am the solution.”

The Tehama County Superior Court in northern California has overturned the wrongful conviction of Larry Pohlschneider, a client of Santa Clara University School of Law’s Northern California Innocence Project, after nearly 15 years of wrongful imprisonment for child molestation charges based on flawed medical evidence.

George F. Will, the influential syndicated Washington Post columnist whose work over the past 40 years has provoked thought, dialogue, and occasionally outrage, will be the featured speaker at Santa Clara University at 7:30 p.m. October 8, 2015.

Rev. Thomas Massaro, S.J., who has led the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (JST) through an intensive integration and expansion over the past four years, has decided to conclude his term as dean in summer 2016 and return to teaching moral theology at JST.

The first recipients of a generous grant to finance and support the education of women lay ministers were celebrated at an event at Santa Clara University Sept. 29.

SCU Engineering Alum Preet Anand's BlueLight is part of "Smart Cities" Initiative

Pope Francis’s recent historic encyclical letter urging preservation of the earth will be the topic of a two-day conference Nov. 3-4 at Santa Clara University, featuring Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson, a key Vatican adviser.

Santa Clara University professors have been asked to appear on local and national media to help put into context the historic visit of Pope Francis to the U.S. Feb. 22 - 27. Be sure to tune in this week!

A new white paper from the Miller Center for Social Entrepreneurship shares tangible steps for businesses or organizations striving to provide clean energy access -- just in time for the Pope's historic address to Congress.

Santa Clara University, a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to justice and sustainability, has two events and numerous experts on campus to discuss the historic U.S. visit of Pope Francis from many angles.

Santa Clara University is the No. 2 “Regional University” in the West according to the 2016 U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges rankings, earning an overall score of 98 out of 100. SCU’s first-year retention rate of 95 percent ranks the highest of any master’s university in the country, and the 85 percent graduation rate is the highest in the West.