Three generations of the Scott family left Santa Clara with more than law degrees—they walked away with a tradition of service, mentorship, and community.
Tori Hack, graduated from Santa Clara in 2012 with a major in Accounting, received the 2026 Rising Alumni Impact Award.
Saving someone’s life could be as simple as pushing a button in the event of an opioid overdose, yet this is information not many know about and even fewer act on. Carrying naloxone is not just a public health initiative, but a moral responsibility all of us carry under the ethical framework of the common good.
Since 2015, there have been 20,000 children who have been sent to wilderness programs in Utah for mental health and behavioral issues. The Troubled Teen Industry and these types of programs are marketed as “rehabilitation” when they are often masking coercion, abuse, and neglect. When adolescent autonomy is neglected and parental consent creates a loophole of harm, is this really treatment or a systemic ethical failure?
Bishop of San Jose Oscar Cantú, Director of Religious and Catholic Ethics David E. DeCosse, and Director of Immigration Ethics William "Bill" O'Neill, S.J., published by National Catholic Reporter.
"It is time for the consciences of Catholics and all citizens to examine policies of detention and deportation in light of the demands of love, truth, dignity and justice — and to act."
Guadalupe Hayes-Mota, director, bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and Forbes councils member, published by Forbes.
The questions reporters ask high-level politicians in planned settings are actual decisions. That does not mean ethical pre-review ought not to go into the question framing.
Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by Penn Live.
Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by Penn Live.
Don Heider, Ethics Center executive director, quoted by The Daily Beast, NewsChannel 5 Nashville, and other outlets.
The fields are different. The mindset is the same: build something that matters to people beyond the lab.
Public health and psychology double major Nadia Lobo ’26 found purpose in accompaniment and a future in trauma-informed care.
In a new report, Hersh Shefrin, a faculty scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and professor of finance at the Leavey School of Business, points out that prediction markets and sports wagering have to ties to “the concept of fairness as a claim to entitlements.”
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Prediction markets make it easy for people to bet on all kinds of events pertaining to finance, politics, pop culture, and sports. Young people, especially young men, are the most impacted by their surge.
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Santa Clara University physics alumni Craig Benko ’10 and Bryan Berggren ’17 reflect on how hands-on research, mentorship, and technological fearlessness in the Physics Department prepared them to lead in the rapidly evolving field of photonics.
Assistant Professor Di Di investigates what it means when people turn to social media influencers and AI chatbots for spiritual guidance.
The growth of prediction markets begs the question, is it wrong to benefit from someone else’s misfortune? Ethics Center staff and faculty interrogate the moral and ethical issues associated with prediction markets.
Despite the ethical concerns associated with prediction markets, they’re growing rapidly and that may be, in part, based on the transactional behaviors of our leaders.
Until questions about prediction markets get serious answers, they will keep doing what they do now: dressing up a private benefit in the language of the public good.
Before we embrace prediction markets as harmless fun or even a socially beneficial trend, we might pause to raise a deeper question: What habits are we learning, and fostering, in betting on our collective future? And what kind of people do these markets train us to become?
Prediction markets can sharpen our view of the future. Whether they improve it is a different question entirely.