An Interview with Mairead O'hara
This piece came from Dr. White’s junior seminar, coupled with her long-running interest in how historians, much like journalists, shape the stories they tell—especially when they hold influence over massive audiences. She discussed how, because of the vast amount of dominion they had, that large an amount of dominion affects so many people’s lives.
An Interview with Francesca Thérèse Ramos
“I want to study canon law to help Christians and Catholics in China,” she explains. During her studies, Francesca noticed that nearly ⅓ of her classmates back home were Chinese students who were interested in Christianity or Catholicism but felt unable to convert or express interest due to family pressure or government restrictions. That experience really stuck with her- and has continued to inspire her academic and personal goals.
An Interview with Benedict Gorman
Can AI gaze at the stars and contemplate its place in the universe? Can AI have leisure? If not, why do we talk about it as if it can? Questions like these and others inspired Benedict Gorman to write on the rise of AI’s effects on human psychology, and how it relates to man’s overall place in the cosmos.
In ENG 432: Coordinating Seminar II, Kayla Thuel was inspired to write on the development of the Irish poet, Seamus Heaney. While others in her seminar decided to focus their term papers on eulogy, Kayla went a different direction. In her paper, she explored how Seamus Heaney began to lean more into his persona as an agent for political change during Ireland’s Troubles.