Students, faculty, and staff are invited to apply to enter the eighth annual University Research Day (URD), on April 18, 2023 showcasing scholarship from all disciplines at the second oldest research university in the country.
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Members of the Catholic University community gathered at dawn on Dec. 12 to sing to Our Lady of Guadalupe as the sun rose on her feast day, celebrating with the Mexican tradition of mañanitas (“little mornings,” in Spanish for the first time on campus).
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The University offers a number of resources to help students navigate the week, which, for the fall semester, will be Dec. 13 to 17.
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Garvey Hall, the new University dining commons, opened its doors on December 5 for breakfast to rave reviews. That evening, donors, alumni, students, and faculty, including former University President John Garvey, attended the dedication on University Lawn.
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The Institute for the Transformation of Catholic Education (ITCE) at Catholic University co-sponsored a discussion and book signing with Classical Academic Press on Nov. 8 about efforts to reclaim the value of the Western canon for all students in light of the book The Black Intellectual Tradition: Reading Freedom in Classical Literature.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas at Catholic University, with the return of many favorite festivities to celebrate faith and community. Through the Office of Campus Activities (OCA), the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Residence Life, and many other campus offices and organizations, there will be many ways to share in the spirit of the season before the holiday break.
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It has been one year since the release of the Sister Thea Bowman Committee Report, which proposed a number of recommendations to embrace Catholic University’s racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity on campus.
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Students will have the opportunity to see their friends on the big screen during a red carpet world premiere of Catholic University’s episode of “The College Tour,” a TV series available on Amazon Prime. The event will be held at Heritage Hall on Nov. 17 at 5 p.m.
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Dr. Peter Kilpatrick was formally installed as Catholic University’s sixteenth president on Friday, Nov. 11, at a Mass of Installation celebrated at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.
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At his installation as 16th president of Catholic University on Nov. 11, Dr. Peter Kilpatrick said his vision includes cultivating greater love of God and neighbor and significant institutional growth.
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The chaplains at Campus Ministry took a little time out of their busy schedules to share some spiritual insights and a few little-known-facts about themselves. Stop by Campus Ministry to get to know them better and thank them for their dedicated service!
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The Catholic University of America and the Coptic Orthodox Church deepened their relationship on Nov. 5, with the conferral of an honorary degree and the signing of a memorandum of agreement between the University and St. Athanasius and St. Cyril Coptic Theological School (ACTS) in Los Angeles.
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The Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity and the Institute for Christian Oriental Research (ICOR) held a commemorative event on Oct. 28 for a prominent scholar of Armenian studies whose personal library was donated to the Semitics/ICOR Library.
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Dr. Peter Kilpatrick is set to be installed as Catholic University’s sixteenth president on Friday, Nov. 11, in the Great Upper Church of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The entire University community is invited to attend.
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Community Renewal International (CRI), founded by Mack McCarter in Shreveport, La., is the winner of the $1 million Opus Prize annual faith-based humanitarian award. University President Dr. Peter Kilpatrick made the announcement during a Nov. 3 ceremony held on campus.
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Catholic University will celebrate Black Catholic History Month with faith-informed events, discussions, and presentations throughout November. Event organizers say the month is also an opportunity to inform the wider community of the unique contributions made by Black Catholics on campus.
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Catholic University will host an international group of faith-based humanitarian heroes for a weeklong series of events to introduce their work to the community ahead of the Opus Prize Awards Ceremony on Nov. 3, where a $1 million award and two $100,000 awards will be granted.
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Deanne (Dee) Roe Gipson, Ph.D., is the new vice president for enrollment management at Catholic University.
Read MoreIn an email to the Catholic University campus community, University President Dr. Peter Kilpatrick announced a series of initiatives to support pregnant and parenting students, faculty, and staff, and affirmed the University’s commitment to supporting them and their families.
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The Catholic University community’s involvement in the $1 million annual Opus Prize honoring faith-based humanitarians from around the world has helped transform lives, say students and faculty involved in selecting the finalists. The $1 million award and two $100,000 awards will be granted at a Nov. 3 Opus Prize Awards Ceremony that is open to the public.
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Students, faculty, and staff removed invasive plant species and picked up trash in an effort to restore the Catholic University’s North Woods during Campus Sustainability Month.
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The University is expecting to host around 2,000 people for the Oct. 27 “Halloween on Campus,” an annual community celebration with carnival games and trick-or-treating organized by Campus Ministry’s Cardinal Service Corps.
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The University’s student-run newspaper will celebrate 100 years of publication on Oct. 27, making it one of the longest running independent campus newspapers in the nation. University Archives has erected an anniversary exhibit in Mullen Library featuring highlights from the newspaper’s rich history covering campus life, culture, and events from a student perspective.
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The National Study of Catholic Priests, sponsored by The Catholic Project, shows that Catholic priests in the United States overall are “flourishing” and strongly support the child protection policies put in place by the U.S. bishops, but they also fear false allegations and their trust in the nation’s bishops has significantly declined.
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The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception will soon install a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, widely regarded as the patroness of Brazil, thanks in part to the persistence of University Vice Provost of Global Strategies and Physics Professor Duilia de Mello.
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Starting this fall, the School of Arts and Sciences began offering a new one-credit course, SAS 101 (Shaping a College Life), more commonly referred to as “Adulting 101.” Though the name may sound silly, it was implemented in response to serious demand from students, parents and faculty.
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An international gathering of Catholic bishops, government officials and foreign policy experts from South Korea, Japan and the United States assembled at Catholic University last week to discuss the role of faith-based initiatives in promoting peace as North Korea launches ever-more advanced ballistic missiles and threatens more nuclear weapons tests.
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The art department opened an exhibition in Salve Regina Hall, called “Lorton: Paper and Lens” on Sept. 15. The exhibition features pieces produced through the Lorton Reformatory art programs, which were designed to help rehabilitate incarcerated people.
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The first chair and professorship within the Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity was formally installed last week, marking an important step in the University’s commitment to increasing awareness and understanding of the liturgical and theological traditions of Eastern Christian Churches.
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The Department of Economics hosted a working meeting Sept. 22-23 highlighting the research of faculty and other experts on the societal influence of the home and family on displaced peoples.
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Catholic University is one of 12 institutions of higher education worldwide, and the only Catholic university, to have a program receive the U.S. Department of Energy’s first-ever Zero Energy Design Designation (ZEDD). The designation recognizes leading sustainable building academic programs.
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On Sept. 22, the Center for Law and the Human Person hosted experts from fields related to adoption, orphans and child welfare to participate in a panel discussion on “The Role of Adoption in a Post-Dobbs America.”
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On October 5-6, Catholic University will host a visiting delegation of 40 Korean government officials, scholars, students and media, led by five South Korean Catholic bishops, for a conference to discuss building peace on the Korean Peninsula.
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Catholic University’s eighth annual mental health awareness day will be held on the University Lawn from 11:00 to 2 p.m. on Sept. 28. It is intended to inform students of a variety of resources for support from Student Services. The initiative, called Fresh Check Day, is held on college campuses across the country to promote mental health awareness and suicide prevention on college campuses.
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Donna Eurich is the director of child and youth protection and the victim assistance coordinator for the Diocese of Tulsa and Eastern Oklahoma, and the first graduate of the online Certificate in Child Protection and Safe Environments offered by the National Catholic School of Social Service at The Catholic University of America.
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Yun-Yung Chang, director of Asian Studies aims to expand the Asian Studies program through Asian-focused language and culture classes as well as off campus experiences such as Asian study-related museum visits, lectures, and concerts abundant in the Washington, D.C., area.
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Decades of work by Catholic University Psychology Professor David Jobes, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., to advance evidence-based and patient-centered suicide-focused clinical treatments is being honored by The National Register of Health Service Psychologists, the largest credentialing organization of its type in the country.
Read MoreThe Mother Teresa Institute in Washington, D.C., will launch this weekend with an inaugural symposium at The Catholic University of America in honor of St. Teresa of Calcutta's life 25 years after her death.
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Students in an archaeology field-methods class spent their first day of class digging up historical fragments on St. Thomas Hill, between the Edward J. Pryzbyla University Center, McMahon Hall, and Mullen Library.
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As the Catholic University community welcomes fresh faces and old friends to campus this fall, here’s the latest on the construction that is designed to improve the grounds, facilities, and the overall student experience.
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The Catholic University of America celebrated the start of the academic year with the annual Mass of the Holy Spirit on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2022 in the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. At the mass, University President Dr. Peter Kilpatrick addressed the campus community for the first time.
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Take Flight, a program of the Center for Cultural Engagement that encourages and supports first-generation students as they transition to life at the University, hosted the largest cohort in the history of the program for an expanded pre-orientation last week.
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A silver-gilt chalice from Ireland (c. 1480) that is a rare survivor of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation will be used to celebrate the Mass of the Holy Spirit marking the opening of the academic year for The Catholic University of America.
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Catholic University welcomed to campus the Class of 2026 with characteristic Cardinal cheer on Thursday, August 25, the first day of a fun-filled first weekend.
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Groundbreaking for the region’s largest urban ground solar array, located on Catholic University’s West Campus, will start on Aug. 22.
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High school performing arts students took center stage during this summer’s annual acting camp at Catholic University, and for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began the artists were back in residence.
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The late Jude P. Dougherty, dean emeritus and professor emeritus of the Catholic University School of Philosophy, was remembered by former faculty colleagues, family and friends, who gathered for the installation of a bust sculpture of the dean during a brief ceremony on July 21. Dougherty, who served as dean from 1967 to 1999, died on March 6, 2021.
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Catholic University Biology Professor Venigalla Rao, Ph.D., was recently installed as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). He also just published new research on the effectiveness of a nasal T4-based vaccine for COVID-19 in mBio, the flagship journal of the American Society of Microbiology.
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The Higgs boson particle — a discovery he considers “one of the great achievements of mankind” — has shaped the career of Catholic University Provost Aaron Dominguez. On July 4, 2012, his team discovered the particle. Today, he and other Catholic University researchers continue to play significant roles in research related to the Higgs boson.
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The Dominican Province of St. Joseph nominated Father Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P., as the new Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry at The Catholic University of America effective July 1.
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Just a few days after Commencement, the School of Engineering held another celebration to mark the 30th anniversary of the Construction Engineering and Management Program (CEM), and to celebrate the founder and former director, Dennis McCahill.
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University President John Garvey's new book, "The Virtues," makes the case for the importance of moral formation in the intellectual life of colleges and universities. "The Virtues" is available from CUA Press and Amazon.
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A new dining commons, currently under construction on the The Catholic University of America campus and scheduled to open in fall 2022, will be named Garvey Hall in honor of University President John Garvey, who will step down on June 30 after 12 years of University leadership, and his wife, Jeanne Garvey.
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The Catholic University of America’s School of Engineering has been awarded a $750,000, three-year grant from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) to encourage equity in STEM education through programs for high school students from underrepresented groups.
Read MoreThe Catholic University of America baseball team has clinched a spot in the NCAA Division III World Series after a 16-2 win over Ithaca College (NY) in the Super Regionals on May 29.
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Walsh’s recent appointment as the Knights of Columbus Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition and the co-director of the Project on Constitutional Originalism and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition (CIT) have him excited about new possibilities he has always wanted to explore.
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The Catholic University of America will bestow an honorary degree in absentia on imprisoned Hong Kong media executive Jimmy Lai during the University’s commencement on Saturday, May 14.
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An alumnus of The Catholic University of America has won the highly competitive Barry Scholarship, while a 2022 graduate is a Fulbright Scholarship recipient.
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On Monday, the Oliveira Lima Library presented “An Evening of Brazilian Classical Music” at Strathmore Hall in Bethesda, Md. The concert was part of the celebration of the Bicentennial of Brazil's Independence and was a cultural collaboration between the Oliveira Lima Library at Catholic University and the Embassy of Brazil in Washington, DC.
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On Friday, April 29, Cardinal Wilton D. Gregory, archbishop of Washington and chancellor of The Catholic University of America, and Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser unveiled a sign for the University’s newly named Thea Bowman Drive.
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A dress worn by Judy Garland in her role as Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz” will be auctioned in Los Angeles on May 24, with the proceeds used to help establish a new film acting program at The Catholic University of America’s Benjamin T. Rome School of Music, Drama, and Art.
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Catholic University, with support from Leidos (a defense and information technology research company based in Reston, Va.), convened scholars and practitioners from multiple disciplines for a virtual conference to explore the ethics of human-machine interactions for military use. “Virtue in the Loop: Designing Ethical Military AI Systems” was held April 5, 2022.
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The first University Research Day held in-person since 2019 was a resounding success, based on the crowds at the Pryzbyla Center and at presentations across campus throughout the day.
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Catholic University rankings for social work and law programs both jumped up in the 2023 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings, with social work moving into the top 20% of programs nationwide and law into the top 100 nationally.
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The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation announced March 30 that Chen Guangcheng, distinguished fellow of Catholic University’s Center for Human Rights — a renowned human rights activist, scholar, and outspoken critic of the Chinese Communist Party — has been named a 2022 Bradley Prize winner.
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This year, 100% of Catholic University’s clinical psychology Ph.D. students were selected or “matched” with internships accredited by the American Psychological Association in the first round of matches.
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The University community lit up with excitement, anticipation, and a standing ovation on Tuesday, March 29, 2022 as Catholic University held a welcome event to announce the University’s 16th President. Peter Kilpatrick, Ph.D., an experienced higher education leader, administrator, and scholar, will take the reins on July 1, 2022.
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The Board of Trustees of The Catholic University of America has appointed Peter K. Kilpatrick, Ph.D., as the 16th president of the University. He will take office on July 1, 2022.
Read MorePresident Garvey invites members of the University Community to join Cardinal Wilton Gregory for a mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception consecrating humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine, to the Immaculate Heart of Mary on Friday, March 25, which is the Solemnity of the Annunciation.
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Lee Edwards, distinguished fellow in conservative thought at the Heritage Foundation, will deliver a lecture about how President Ronald Reagan, through the Reagan Doctrine, was able to end the Cold War at the bargaining table and not on a battlefield.
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Marie T. Nolan, professor and scholar, has been appointed by Catholic University President John Garvey as the next dean of the Conway School of Nursing. Nolan, M. Adelaide Nutting Endowed Chair at Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, will assume her new duties in May.
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After being delayed two years due to the pandemic, Maestro Murry Sidlin, professor and former dean at the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music (now the School of Music, Drama, and Art), will conduct his chamber ensemble transcription of Aaron Copland’s The Tender Land at Catholic University March 24-27.
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Catholic University is lifting the mask requirement for most of the campus effective immediately.
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This Ash Wednesday, the Catholic University community will join Pope Francis in dedicating Ash Wednesday, March 2, as “a Day of Fasting for Peace” and to join in the Pope’s prayer to Mary, Queen of Peace, “to save the world from the madness of war."
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NASA has announced that researchers are using the James Webb Space Telescope to study interstellar objects passing through our solar system. Martin Cordiner, a research associate professor at Catholic University, is a principal investigator involved in this research at NASA.
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The Catholic University men's swimming and diving team won its sixth-straight title at the 2022 Landmark Conference Swimming & Diving Championships on Feb. 20.
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In an open letter to The Catholic University of America community, University President John Garvey invited the entire Catholic University community to join Pope Francis in dedicating Ash Wednesday, March 2, as “a Day of Fasting for Peace” and to join in the Pope’s prayer to Mary, Queen of Peace, “to save the world from the madness of war."
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Cardinal Wilton Gregory, archbishop of Washington and Catholic University’s chancellor, offered students both encouragement and a challenge during a special CUA on Tap organized by Campus Ministry as part of the University’s 2022 MLK Teach-In.
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In fall 2023, Catholic University football will compete in the Landmark Conference after five years of competition with the New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference.
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The Catholic University of America is fully engaging in the global synod process called for by Pope Francis, beginning with a public conversation on Feb. 28 between the Apostolic Nuncio Archbishop Christophe Pierre and University President John Garvey.
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A select group of distinguished leaders brought their experience to the table as they gathered at Catholic University on Feb. 8 to choose finalists for the Opus Prize for humanitarian work. In 2021, Catholic University was chosen to host the prize, an annual faith-based humanitarian award, recognizing leaders and organizations that develop creative, faith-filled solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems.
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Members of the scientific community from the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia gathered for a Gold Mass in Caldwell Chapel last week.
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When University President John Garvey announced the formation of the Sister Thea Bowman Committee in 2020, the Catholic University initiative to look at racism and recommend change caught the attention of several Black alumni who entered the University in 1969 as part of the largest class of Black freshman in University history.
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Catholic University of America’s Institute for the Study of Eastern Christianity and its Center for Ukrainian Church Studies, joined the Ukrainian Catholic National Shrine of the Holy Family in a 14-hour vigil to mark the Jan. 26 Day of Prayer for Peace in Ukraine.
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Search Advisory Committee Chairman Victor P. Smith provides an update on presidential search progress.
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Even with many students not yet back on campus, The Catholic University of America had a strong showing for the 2022 March for Life, with about 300 students proclaiming, “We are 100% pro-life.”
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As the spring semester begins, students are to be tested within five days of their return to campus under protocols developed to keep the University safe and open.
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The Catholic University of America will kick off the second semester of the academic year at the annual University Mass in commemoration of the patronal feast day of St. Thomas Aquinas.
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Hieu Bui, associate professor, engineering and computer science, is this year's keynote speaker for University Research Day. He will explore "Progress in Bringing DNA Computers to Life."
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Several traditional spring events at Catholic University are returning to a more "normal" observation this year. However the recent surge in COVID-19 cases in the District will affect how the events are celebrated this year.
Read MorePresident John Garvey has named Robert M. Specter as Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and University Treasurer. Specter has served the University since 2015, initially as Acting Vice President for Finance and Treasurer before being appointed to that permanent role in 2016.
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