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John Rinaldo, MA '06, a lifelong pastoral leader and Professor of Practice at ÃÛÌÒµ¼º½, is shaping the future of Church leadership through the GPPM program, his courses, and his podcast, Called to Lead.

The Leavey School of Business celebrated the close of the 2025–26 academic year with faculty and staff honors, including nine professors earning the school's top distinction and the debut of a new award program recognizing outstanding staff contributions.

The inaugural Bay Area Sports Business Impact Awards span five categories — from community impact and ethical leadership to innovation and trailblazing business thinking — with each award tied to a charitable donation or scholarship. Recipients will be celebrated at a gala this November.

The business management major felt embraced and cared for as a transfer student. He wants to pay that forward.

There’s a contrarian management philosophy that Jim Hughes will share with anyone who asks. Tracing the arc of his career from a part-time job at a Computerland store in Silicon Valley to the executive ranks of Cisco to founding his own data analytics company, the evidence is hard to argue with.

Research Policy

Public Health partnered with the Unhoused Initiative to host a care kit assembly event.

Shea Mulqueeney completed her Honors Thesis on research on encampment sweeps of people experiencing homelessness in the South Bay.

Reflecting on Dr. Houry’s talk, highlighting crisis leadership, ethical decision-making, and the realities of navigating public health systems.

Publishing two manuscripts from the ¡Salud, Salud! study, targeting type 2 diabetes management.

Saxton and Lattanner co-author research in the American Journal of Public Health.

Using machine learning to improve healthcare access in Ethiopia.

Alice Villatoro and Jasmin Llamas receive Whitham Grant to investigate social determinants of mental health.

High Altitude Long-Range Networking (HALoN) for Crisis Communication, a research prototype used in high-stakes environments, enables temporary access to communication infrastructure, particularly for communities and organizations that lack the resources.

SSRN Working Paper

Explore 10 types of leadership styles, from autocratic to transformational, with clear examples of when each one works best for your team in 2026.

Brian Green, director, technology ethics, quoted by Union of Catholic Asian News.

When information scarcity and water scarcity meet, oversimplifications are likely to lead to worse outcomes for both opponents and proponents of data center development.

Leavey’s ISBA 2411 has been renamed Natural Language Processing and AI to reflect how the field has shifted—from parsing text to building generative systems.

Davina Hurt, director, government ethics, quoted by the Los Angeles Times.

Journal of International Money and Finance

Sociology internships course hosts networking and career information sessions

Radical Video Histories at the de Saisset Museum: Re-visiting the 12th St Jude Invitational restages the 1972 12th St. Jude Invitational featuring video works by John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, George Bolling, Douglas Davis, Howard Fried, Taka Iimura, Paul Kos, Shiegeko Kubota, Bill Viola, and William Wegman, among others. This exhibition is offered as part of the the Further Triennial.