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From Study Halls to Concert Halls
Campus Life Update While the school year marches on alongside the seasons, students continue to find ways to relax from academia and grow a flourishing community life! While the week was markedly mellow, with the drumbeat of classes and the steady flow of homework keeping the students in rigorous rhythm, some found creative and intrepid…
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CatholicTech Launches the World’s First Catholic Online Master’s in Technology Ethics
CASTEL GANDOLFO, ITALY – The Catholic Institute of Technology (CatholicTech) is proud to announce the launch of the Online Master’s in Technology Ethics, a groundbreaking graduate program set to begin in June 2026. In an era defined by artificial intelligence, biotechnology, robotics, and data science, this innovative degree program equips scientists, engineers, and professionals with…
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Fall Festivities
Campus Life Update In central Italy, the weather is gradually gliding into late fall’s moody chill, but the shifting seasons didn’t deter our students and faculty from setting off on adventures around Italy! Some enjoyed the outdoors in the temperate weather, a cool switch from the commonly sweltering heat of the summer, while others indulged…
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Can AI be Infused with Ethics?
To err is human. This is played out through human history, beginning with Adam and Eve. The field of psychology examines unconscious biases in human decision-making, which has implications for our justice systems. The solution, according to some, would lie in AI decision-making. Imagine a calculator here tomorrow that can contribute transparent reasoning to arrive…
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Rome Trips, Another Papal Visit and a Masters’ Degree Class Filmed
Taking advantage of the lovely fall weather after the start to classes, students enjoyed exploring Rome over the weekend. Church hopping, sightseeing, book-shopping, thrifting, and exploring the ancient city proved quite adventurous as students navigated Rome’s historic neighborhoods and niche stores. Some enjoyed the readily available sacraments at Saint Peter’s Basilica, which is always a…
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Micro Solutions for Macro Problems
This July, the Tandon School of Engineering created an improved method of micro-capsules for drug-delivery. This method brings with it a greater uniformity and control over particle size, as well as a wider extent of possible materials. This new technique is called SNaP, which means sequential nanoprecipitation. Where the former common method was a one-step…
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St. Thérèse and “The Science of Love”
Lauded as the “Greatest Saint of Modern Times” by the great Saint Pius X, and honoured as a Doctor of the Church despite having spent most of her twenty-four years on this earth in the small Norman town of Lisieux, Saint Thérèse persists as one of the most well loved saints of the past two…
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Electric Cooling Squeezes New Benchmark
Have you ever wondered how modern refrigeration worked? This week, in light of a recent development in electric refrigeration, we have occasion to learn about the wonderful technology behind refrigeration. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) have discovered a 70% more efficient way to build electrothermal cooling cells. The technology in question…
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Mass of the Holy Spirit + Convocation
Campus Life Update On Wednesday, September 17th, the university gathered for CatholicTech’s second convocation. Our chaplain and professor of philosophy and theology, Fr. Maurice Agbaw-Ebai, celebrated the Mass of the Holy Spirit to open the school year, asking the Holy Spirit for wisdom and guidance during the upcoming year. Following Mass, the students, faculty, and…
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Blockchain Technology: Making Medical Records Accessible and Secure
Medical health records are important to healthcare providers in order to provide proper services. However essential they may be, oftentimes access is difficult and insecure. With ready access to your auntie in Peru through FaceTime, and fruit shipped to your doorstep in twenty-four hours, we should not suffer our medical health records to be dinosaurs.…