Erick Ramirez is assistant professor of philosophy at Santa Clara University and faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. The concept of human dignity—the idea ...

Maya Ackerman is an associate professor of computer science and engineering and faculty scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Don’t think about pink elephants.

When Olivia Leonardis ’25 transferred to Santa Clara University, she had seemingly found a balance between her dual love of words and numbers—deciding to major in civil engineering and minor in ...

When I first heard about the Santa Clara Investment Fund (SCIF), I knew it was the type of organization I wanted to be a part of. Since I am passionate about finance, I was looking for like-minded, ...

Last year, Californians passed Proposition 36 in a landslide election, severely increasing the penalties for theft and drug crimes. After years of viral videos of Walgreen’s smash and grab robberies ...

Professor On Shun Pak and his team of student researchers use microrobots to model the swimming motion of bacteria in the hopes of engineering more effective cancer treatments. Professor On Shun Pak ...

Prosthetic hands can cost thousands of dollars. Steven Reimer ’24 designed one for less than $300. His research will provide free prosthetics to amputees in India. Prosthetic hands can cost thousands ...

Steven Reimer M.S. ’24 stepped back from the table after placing the final sensor on the patient’s arm. Two years of hard work had led to this moment. He had traveled 8,000 miles to Jaipur, India to ...

I rina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program (@IEthics) at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. On Monday, March 24, I will be participating in a conversation ...

Find case studies and scenarios on a variety of fields in applied ethics.

Learn how to create the hardware and software of tomorrow. For undergraduates we offer a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering that focuses on programming and building computer systems. For those ...

In Technology Ethics, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics addresses issues arising from transhumanism and human enhancement ethics, catastrophic risk and ethics, religion and technology ethics, and ...