SCI-West and the Host Institution

Santa Clara University is the host institution for SCI-West, in collaboration with Saint Mary's College of California.  Santa Clara University is a Jesuit University in Silicon Valley with a 155-year tradition of educating the whole person for a life of service and leadership.  SCU is California's oldest operating institution of higher education, and was founded on the site of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, the eighth of the original twenty-one California missions.  It is home to 4600 undergraduate students and over 3500 graduate students.                                       

Areas of Expertise and Focus

SCI-West initiatives are open to participants around the U.S. but are primarily designed to address the needs and interests of individuals in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming.

The SCI-West group has broad expertise among its members, but has a particular interest in sustainability on- and off-campus and undergraduate research.

Upcoming Events

Recent Events

Science and Civic Engagement: A Symposium on New Approaches in Science and Mathematics Education with a Special Emphasis on Water Science and Policy

February 26-27, 2010, hosted by Woodbury University in Burbank, CA

The SENCER Center for Innovation-West and the Institute of Transdisciplinary Studies at Woodbury University will host Science and Civic Engagement: A Symposium on New Approaches in Science and Mathematics Education with a Special Emphasis on Water Science and Policy.

Highlights include sessions on Transdisciplinarity, Physics and Civic Engagement, Undergraduate Research as Civic Engagement, Rethinking Water in the Arid West, Engagement in the Life Sciences and Mathematics, Course Design and the Use of SENCER SALG in Assessment, as well as a transdisciplinary panel discussion on “How Water Science Influences Water Policy.”

Poster presentations on curricula and courses, community partnerships, and research on “Water and the West” are invited (all disciplines are welcome).

Symposium Agenda (Feb. 22nd)

Symposium on Teaching Science and Engineering Through Civic Engagement (Special emphasis on water and the west).

October 25, 2008, hosted by Santa Clara University

View the symposium schedule.

SENCER Summer Institute 2008

August 8-11, 2008, hosted by Santa Clara University

Leadership Council Planning Meeting

June 7, 2008, hosted by Santa Clara University

Photograph of Santa Clara University taken by Katie Shade in 2006.