Sweet Home Santa Clara
Maddie Pothoff ’20 just looks like a pro. Not just with her impossibly angled winners or demoralizing drop shots that barely cross the net. It’s the way she handles herself. Between points, she never...
View ArticleBrickyard Bound
Come the 102nd running of the Indy 500 in May 2018, along with cars powered by engines up to 700 horsepower, there will be a Bronco on the track: Kyle Kaiser ’20 makes his debut in the big race,...
View ArticleSweetness, Youth & Power
Led by a roster of young goal scorers, Santa Clara finished the year with the deepest run into the NCAA tournament among West Coast Conference members. The Broncos also notched second place in...
View ArticleEmmanuel’s Grind
Like most kids growing up in Nigeria, the only sport Emmanuel Ndumanya ’17, M.A. ’18 wanted to play was soccer. But when he exceeded the weight limit for his local league in ninth grade, Ndumanya was...
View ArticleSticky Science
The molecules in associate professor Amelia Fuller’s lab are sticky—and powerful. The small vials of white powder don’t look like much, but they’re contamination magnets when they hit water. The...
View ArticleA Growing Elite
A Growing Elite SCU Hall of Fame expands to 307 with the addition of seven athletes. The Bronco Bench Foundation’s annual Red and White Gala celebrated success on Santa Clara fields and courts....
View ArticleBack from Space
As engineer, researcher, software developer, and manager, respectively, Cooper McDonnell ’17, David Ung M.S. ’15, Isaac Lee ’16, and Niko Agbayani M.S. ’10 played key roles in getting the first car...
View ArticleMany Inspirations
A stunning feat: Santa Clara is a top producer of Fulbright scholars. Eight former and current students earned the grants. With them they will improve access to electricity, education, and...
View ArticlePillars and People
So who are the people who make the campaign a success? Of course it’s you—whether you’re one of 100,000+ Bronco alumni or a proud parent, a friend and benefactor, a student or a staff member, or one...
View ArticleBringing Tradition Near
Close your eyes. Imagine a traditional Hawaiian tattoo. Open your eyes. You probably got that all wrong. Don’t feel defeated. Generations of researchers did, too. Some believed there wasn’t a...
View ArticlePositively Bronco
Ciara Moezidis ’21 came up with the idea of #BroncoPosi magazine covers to “encourage love, promote positivity, and increase solidarity among student groups.” In them, students can see themselves,...
View ArticleElbowing Her Way In
Since ancient Greece, scientists and philosophers have studied patterns in nature as a way to identify order in a seemingly chaotic world—the perfect spiral of a snail’s shell, wind-blown ripples in...
View ArticleUnhealthy AI
Imagine, pre-pandemic, making an appointment for a routine physical. The only available time slot is 11 a.m. When the day comes, you skip the appointment because you can’t get the time off from your...
View ArticleSpring to Action
Before anyone knew that shelter-in-place would stretch from a few weeks into the total cancellation of in-person Spring and Summer Quarters, Santa Clarans began looking for ways to help. Forge Garden...
View ArticleWitches, Saints, and Heretics
Who could resist a class with that name? Not the 72 students who enrolled in Fall 2020, when former priest and current religious studies senior lecturer William Dohar taught two courses on the topic....
View ArticleAtypical Talent
Listening to his mix—and not knowing about restrictions on gatherings—you might think DJ Jonah “J The King” Parks was spinning at any popular club. Instead, the teen was the winner of Autism’s Got...
View ArticleThat’s a Wrap
Jack H. Holmes ’51 knows practically everything about bread tags—those tiny, flat, plastic squares used to close plastic bags around everything from loaves of bread to sacks of produce. That’s because...
View ArticleEmotional Immune System
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View ArticleStaring Into the Fire
On summer break, college students usually go on vacation, see their families and friends, and enjoy the sun. Rather than tanning at the pool or riding waves at the beach the summer after his sophomore...
View ArticleSpin Masters
The thing about webspinners is they’re hard to tell apart: There are virtually no visible differences between many of the hundreds of species, making evolutionary questions hard to address. In an...
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