The annual ranking by the federal agency
states 21 Santa Clara alumni currently serve as Peace Corps
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Other Jesuit universities with alumni serving in the Peace Corps
are Gonzaga University, Marquette University, Georgetown University,
and Boston College .scu. Minniti is a lead researcher on the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor
(GEM) project and is a member of the Entrepreneurship Research Consortium. For more
information, visit http://www.

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Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., is recognized internationally as a
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"I am proud that our students are using their
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Babson's Minniti Receives NSF Fellowship for Entrepreneurship

The NSF application requires ongoing
scholarly cooperation between the distinguished fellow and at least one CWRU
faculty member.

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"Santa Clara students are leaders that act with conscience, and
who are genuinely compassionate toward others," said SCU President
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The Peace Corps currently has 7,733 volunteers serving in the
field. WELLESLEY, Mass., Babson College economics and
entrepreneurship professor Maria Minniti has been named a Distinguished Fellow
of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to work on entrepreneurship and
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is currently writing a book on entrepreneurship and economic growth. Babson Executive Education offers executive development programs to
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About Santa Clara University

Santa Clara University, a comprehensive Jesuit, Catholic
university located in California's Silicon Valley, offers its 8,213
students rigorous undergraduate curricula in arts and sciences,
business, and engineering, plus master's and law degrees.
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conferences, such as the American Economic Association Meeting, the Academy of
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SANTA CLARA, Calif.----Santa Clara
University ranked first in California and 11th nationally among small
universities (under 5000 undergraduates) in the number of alumni
serving in the Peace Corps. The University of Chicago was ranked number one, with 39
alumni volunteering for the Peace Corps.
Distinguished nationally by the second-highest graduation rate among
all U. master's universities , California's oldest higher-education
institution demonstrates faith-inspired values of ethics and social
justice.
A grant awarded to Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), where Minniti's
co-author Moren Levesque is on faculty, allows them to host one scholar per
year as a NSF Distinguished Fellow.

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