By Lindsey Valancius When explaining something complex like cellular biology, cellular biologist Rick Horwitz equates a cell to a football team. The genes and molecules represent a football roster because they predict cellular activity. The molecular structure and interactions of the cell are similar to the techniques and plays assigned to each football position. Read More …
By Rachel Stevens The Student Government Association (SGA) and Peer Educators Empowering Respectful Students (PEERS) came together to host a campus-wide clothing drive for the Network for Victim Recovery of DC from October 8-12. This month is dedicated to relationship violence awareness, by both of these student organizations. The drive was held in response to Read More …
By Alexander Santana Five men and two women were canonized as the newest Saints of the Roman Catholic Church last Sunday at the Vatican. During a mass in St. Peter’s Square Pope Francis told the over 70,000 people present to look at the lives lived by Pope Paul VI, Archbishop Oscar Romero, Fr. Francesco Spinelli, Read More …
Courtesy of Metropolitan School of Professional Studies By Amanda McShane More than 100 student workers were not paid on time at the end of September due to a new digitized payroll system and miscommunication between students, faculty and the administrative departments. The unpaid students were informed of the late payment, which was supposed to be Read More …
By Freddy Burke For 95 years, Catholic University had a yearbook with photos of students and faculty, documenting people’s experiences at the school. That ended in 2011, due to lack of interest and the fallout from cutting scholarships for the editors. During the academic school years of 1916 through 2011, Catholic University had an annual Read More …
By Abby Anderko The Busch School of Business and Napa Institute co-hosted a three day conference with political and religious leaders focused on the important relationship between human dignity and work, October 3-5. This three day conference consisted of keynote speakers and panel discussions to explore themes of work and human dignity, including the sanctification Read More …
By Alexander Santana With 50 yeas and 48 nays Brett M. Kavanaugh was confirmed on October 6th by the U.S. Senate to serve as the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. West Virginia’s Joe Manchin was the only Democratic Senator to vote in favor of Kavanaugh’s confirmation while Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) voted Read More …
By Natalie Colonna Catholic University students and staff met for the final installment of the “Response to the Crisis in the Catholic Church” series in the Pryzbyla Center on Monday, October 8 answering questions with a discussion on what to do when losing faith in the Church. Nearly 40 students filled six round tables in Great Read More …
By Rachel Stevens This past weekend marked the 2018 chapter of a Catholic University tradition of family weekend, with nearly 2,000 registrants. Families were afforded many opportunities to be immersed in the student culture here at the University throughout the weekend. Activities were a collaboration of The Office of Campus Activities, Program Board, and The Read More …
By Natalie Colonna Nearly fifty Catholic University students gathered on campus Tuesday night for the second installment of the “Response to the Crisis in the Catholic Church” discussion series. University Chaplain and Director of Campus Ministry, Rev. Jude DeAngelo, hosted the second part of the series titled “How Did We Get Here: An Overview of Read More …