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Sustainability

It’s about understanding where the pieces connect

Sean Reilly ’16 brings big data together with human connection to help redwood forests survive and thrive.

Law

Santa Clara Law students are leveling up with an education in D&D

A first-of-its-kind simulation course is using Dungeons & Dragons to put essential lawyer skills into practice—and it’s been a critical success.

Rana Altay Ph.D. ’26 places the OSMiPump (a small piece of adhesive plastic) to her wrist using tweezers.

Health

Science & Tech

Skin-like micropump could dose cancer, diabetes medicine without electricity

Using the wearer’s natural motion for power, engineers at Santa Clara University have created a wearable micropump can precisely deliver or extract fluids without electricity.

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First-year students receive expert career guidance—even before arriving on campus

Every year, Santa Clara’s nationally ranked Career Center helps thousands of incoming students start their career discernment process. This time, they’re starting early.

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Athletics

Science & Tech

Aspiring aeronautical engineer and student-athlete places fourth in international mountain race

Between record-setting steeplechase races and her first solo flights, mechanical engineering major Milaina Almonte ’27 is building the confidence to surpass goals she never would have dreamed of.

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Business

Student Life

How to free yourself from failure’s funk

Santa Clara’s Director of Career Development & Campus Integration advises on bouncing back and staying motivated during a job hunt.

Business

Service & Social Justice

For Miller Center fellows, the work starts before they arrive in their host country

Through months of training, students learn that listening is the most important skill they can bring to the field—and the one that creates lasting impact.

Education

Student Life

A graduate student’s passion project fosters community among Broncos

Seeing an opportunity to bring graduate students together, Isabella Hernandez ’27 created a quarterly mixer series that offered space to connect outside the classroom.

Science & Tech

Student Life

Jalen Paige ’26 aspires to build technology that helps people and strengthens communities

‘It is especially important, now more than ever, to consider the moral weight of the technology we create and really ask ourselves what we hope to gain.’

Social Sciences

Juana Melgoza ’26 learned to double down on her dreams at Santa Clara

The first in her family to go to college, Melgoza once believed top Silicon Valley companies were out of reach—until the LEAD Scholars Program helped her build the confidence and connections to pursue them.

Service & Social Justice

Social Sciences

Julissa Martinez ’26 wanted a community for undergraduate students to learn about careers in law. So she built it herself.

“I’ve always loved being a part of my community and being able to make the path a little bit easier for others.”

Arts

Science & Tech

An engineering and music major finds perfect harmony on stage and in the lab

A’Zhae Turay ’26 arrived at Santa Clara with one focus: engineering. What he discovered was a community that encouraged him to pursue all his passions.

Arts

Health

‘We’re only laying the foundation for what I’m going to blossom into.’

Pre-med. Studio arts. At Santa Clara, Madeline Patrick ’26 didn't have to pick.

Business

Valedictorian Charles Silver ’26 on building a better world by building community

The business management major felt embraced and cared for as a transfer student. He wants to pay that forward.

Service & Social Justice

Student Life

How Jacklyn Alonzo Heredia ’26 turned four years at Santa Clara into a legacy

This triple-major, director of the Multicultural Center, and tireless community advocate is just getting started.

Campus Snapshot

Getting Oriented: Incoming first-year students from the Class of 2030 take in the Resource Fair on the St. Ignatius Lawn during orientation in July.

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