Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic university located in California’s Silicon Valley, offers its more than 8,000 students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences, business, and engineering, plus master’s, Ph.D., and law degrees. Distinguished nationally by the fourth-highest graduation rate among all U.S. master’s universities, California’s oldest operating higher-education institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social justice.
Scholars discuss the meaning of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s potential elevation to the highest court in the land.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, speaking during her confirmation hearing on March 22, 2022, would be the first Black woman to serve on the court.
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55 years after Thurgood Marshall testified during his Supreme Court confirmation hearing, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s hearings show race and crime continue to drive questions about a Black jurist.
First Nations young people make up around 20% of missing children in Australia. However, these cases rarely make national, let alone international headlines.
Conservative suit? Check. Rep tie? Check. Mitch McConnell looks every inch a senator.
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Clothing is a way for politicians to convey authenticity and to tell their story.
Harvey Weinstein arrives at the Manhattan Criminal Court, on February 24, 2020 in New York City. On March 11 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison for criminal sexual acts and rape.
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Scandals are violent shocks to social systems, yet not all questionable behaviour produces scandal. How can we explain that some figures escape the consequences of their own behavior while others don’t?
Without a vaccine, getting to herd immunity would mean many more illnesses and deaths.
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India’s parliamentary elections, now underway, will show how social media is affecting Indian society and government.
Mathematical visualization techniques led the author to create this virtual scene, showing shapes from the realm of mathematics bursting into the physical world.
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It’s a golden age for visualization in mathematics. How tools like 3-D printing, animation and even knitting machines are reimagining the way mathematicians study and share their work.
Could the hack that took out the power grid in Ukraine happen in the U.S.?
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Batteries combined with digital technologies will improve the efficiency and reliability of the electric grid, transforming how people use their energy.
The 3 to 2 FCC vote favored Chairman Tom Wheeler’s proposed net neutrality rules and will regulate broadband providers more heavily than in the past.
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This open internet debate isn’t the first time the government has wrestled with the question of how to apportion rights between private media owners and the public.