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Could Food be a Prescription for Chronic Disease?

New Data Released That Reveals 4 Percent Decline in Local ‘Meal Gap’

Food is more than just fuel; it can also be medicine. That was the premise of today’s Hunger Action Summit, an annual forum on local hunger organized by Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Clara and San Mateo Counties and 58ºÚÁÏÍø.

Summit Looks at Food as Medicine: The Intersection of Hunger and Health

New Data to be Released Revealing Decline in Local ‘Meal Gap’

The seventh annual Hunger Action Summit, titled "Food as Medicine: The Intersection of Hunger and Health," will focus on the hidden ways that food scarcity harms the community.

58ºÚÁÏÍø’s de Saisset Museum Celebrates 60 Years

58ºÚÁÏÍø’s de Saisset Museum is celebrating 60 years of curating California's stories this month, with the dedication of the museum's first permanent outdoor sculpture by world-renowned artist Fletcher Benton.

Esteemed 58ºÚÁÏÍø Professor of Economics, Mario Belotti, Shares Upbeat Economic Forecast

Professor's Autobiography Recently Published

Dr. Mario Belotti shared his largely upbeat annual economic forecast Jan. 20, before a roomful of Bay Area leaders and others he's advised for decades.

Twenty Social Entrepreneurs Chosen for the Class of 2015 Global Social Benefit Institute (GSBI®) Accelerator

Ten-month program to advance social enterprises includes August 13–21 in-residence in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Twenty social entrepreneurs, working all over the world from Namibia to Nepal, have been selected to receive mentoring, training, and on-campus instruction as part of the Global Social Benefit Institute’s (GSBI) 13th annual GSBI Accelerator program.

58ºÚÁÏÍø Prof. Mario Belotti to Present Annual Economic Forecast Jan. 15 and Jan. 20

58ºÚÁÏÍø's esteemed professor of economics, Mario Belotti, will be sharing his annual economic forecast Jan. 15 in San Francisco and on Jan. 20 in Santa Clara, Calif.

58ºÚÁÏÍø Debuts Tool to Prevent Sexual Violence

58ºÚÁÏÍø is unveiling a first-of-its-kind tool in combating sexual assault on college campuses. Can’t Thread a Moving Needle is a complex and intriguing film adapted from the play written by SCU Theatre Professor Barbara Means Fraser. Much like The Laramie Project, the play was written based on interviews of victims, survivors, perpetrators, family, friends, counselors, professors, and attorneys. Fraser, one alumnus, and nine students from her Playwright’s Workshop course gathered stories and commentary from over 100 people from a variety of states.

Hilton Foundation Makes Major Grant for Theological Leadership Formation and Education of Asian Women Religious

A new $750,000 grant to SCU's Jesuit School of Theology from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation will help empower Catholic women religious in Asia to be effective agents of social change.