Stories

Robert J. Talbot Field will welcome the upcoming season for the Cardinals with a new feature: stadium lights. Thanks to a generous gift from the Jones family, the baseball and softball teams will be able to utilize the field for longer, including hosting night games and practices.

On Wednesday, March 15, the Office of Alumni Engagement hosted a Women's Leadership Panel as part of a celebration of Women's History Month.

As part of the CUOnline Career Development Series, we were joined by Mark Arnone, B.A. 2009, on February 25, for a workshop on how to best navigate and secure jobs across the federal government.

As part of the CUOnline Lunch and Learn series, Fr. Christopher Seith, S.T.D. 2020, joined us on February 21 for a discussion on the role of digital technologies in our careers and in our formation as people.

On Wednesday, February 8, we hosted a career panel that featured a trio of Black alumni who shared their experiences and wisdom across the business, healthcare, and engineering industries for all alumni and students.

On Wednesday, January 18, we were joined by Dr. Robert Townsend, B.A. 1988, M.A. 1990, as part of the Lunch and Learn Series.

On Thursday, January 12, we were joined by Alexandra Wertz, B.A. 2022, for an introductory workshop on graphic design using Canva.

December 5 was a red-letter day for Catholic University, when the Cardinal community celebrated the opening of Garvey Hall, the long-awaited new campus dining commons. It was also the day that Garvey Hall opened to hungry students as the University’s main dining space.

This gift, made by the Sheehy family, will provide support for adult learners and is the first endowed scholarship of the Metropolitan School of Professional Services.

Today, the Church celebrates the feast day of Holy Family. The family is the fundamental unit of human society; it is the soil in which each of us has roots. In some way we always have family as our goal. God has hallowed the family and made a family the privileged place of His revelation of himself to us in love.

On December 3, we were joined by Kevin Rensch, B.A. 2014, M.A. 2016, for the Upskilling Workshop: Excel Bootcamp. Rensch, took participants through some of Excel's most useful features that make one's work more efficient. 

On November 8, Kevin Walsh was installed as the inaugural Knights of Columbus Endowed Professor of Law and the Catholic Tradition.

This spring, the Metropolitan School of Professional Studies earned the Campaign Cup, which is presented to individual schools that surpass their overall fundraising goals for Light the Way: The Campaign for Catholic University.

The Cardinal community came together for yet another year to help usher in the next generation of Cardinals. Collectively, Catholic University alumni, faculty, staff, parents, friends, and students raised more than $94,000 for student scholarships, surpassing last year’s total of more than $75,000. The community’s

This year marked the most successful Athletics Giving Challenge in University history, with a total of $372,440 dollars raised through 3,721 gifts from a record-setting 2,905 donors. Last year, $313,614 was raised during the Athletics Giving Challenge.

The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, celebrated the last Sunday of the liturgical year, is one of the most recent additions to the calendar of liturgical commemorations in the Church. It asks for believers to rise above the fleeting and limited allegiances that we human beings establish or try to establish among ourselves.

On November 9, we were joined by Peter Varga, B.A. 2019, for a discussion on his research on aesthetics and self-transcendence in psychology and how those topics relate to well-being.

On October 25, Kevin Kambo, M.A. 2014, Ph.D. 2018, joined us for a discussion on his career and his current research in ethics, moral psychology, and Plato as part of the CUOnline Lunch and Learn series.

Recently, Catholic University was awarded $1.4 million in federal grant funding to launch a program that will help U.S. military veterans prepare for and achieve higher education.