Campus briefs

Daily services during Lent

Mass will be celebrated at 5:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday throughout the season of Lent in the Mission Church. Masses will not be held from March 19 to March 23.

Lent is the 40 days of prayer and spiritual observance in Catholicism leading up to Easter, which falls on April 8 this year.

Volunteers needed for festival

The Sally Ride Science Festival, Sunday, April 1, needs volunteers to help on campus with events for over 1,000 fifth - eighth grade students.

Volunteers will receive lunch and the opportunity to attend the keynote address by astronaut Tammy Jernigan. Jernigan has completed five shuttle missions since 1986. Her most recent mission was aboard the shuttle Discovery in 1999 for the first docking with the International Space Station, during which time she had a seven hour, 55 minute space walk.

Interested students should contact Dan Lewis, chair of the computer engineering department, at dlewis@scu.edu.

Solar Decathlon kick-off

Members of the Santa Clara Solar Decathlon team will begin the construction phase of their solar house project with a kick-off celebration from 9 to 10 a.m. today at Buck Shaw Stadium.

A 3-D model of the home will be viewable, along with information about sustainable building practices and team goals. The completed house will be put on display on the National Mall in Washington D.C. as part of a solar village from October 12 - 20.

The event is part of National Engineers Week.

From staff reports. E-mail news@thesantaclara.com.