When I was a junior in high school—a Catholic, all-girls school—I advanced to the regional round of the state science exposition. My parents drove me to...
Higher education
Not two minutes after transcribing my last interview for this story, my phone rang. An undergraduate student at St. John’s University, where I work, died...
It was my last week at Marquette University before leaving for a semester to study abroad in France. I’d just finished my last two papers, and while my...
When Heather Camm, a chemistry teacher at an all-girls Catholic high school, began designing a new, year-long course in scientific ethics, she knew she would...
I am a professor at a Jesuit university, and when I face 260 young adults in a lecture hall, I now face something I never expected to encounter in a classroom:...
No one was more excited to receive an acceptance letter to Arrupe College than the mother of Jontae Thomas. “She called me,” Thomas recalls. “Don’t you get the...
When someone names their dog after a saint, you know their faith is an important part of who they are. “I’m a Third Order Dominican working among Jesuits. The...
Ecologist Reuben Keller knows that caring for the planet requires thinking beyond the environmental sciences. Trek up to Reuben Keller’s Chicago office, and...
Universities regularly teach ethics across their curriculum and in graduate courses at professional schools, but as James Keenan writes, the university itself...
“Tolerance” is for menial things like mosquitoes and traffic jams. When it comes to other human beings, let’s seek more. Take a moment to think about the...
