In honor of the College’s patron saint and namesake, students and faculty on the California campus celebrated the Feast of St. Thomas Aquinas last week with a festive day featuring a lecture from alumnus scholar Dr. Thomas Cavanaugh (’85).
During the annual Catholic Man Campout at Clear Creek Abbey last fall, Thomas Aquinas College alumnus and Benedictine monk Rev. Joshua Morey, O.S.B. (’00) appeared on an episode of “The Catholic Man Show.”
A graduate of the Class of 2005 and now the secretary of the Curia of the Benedictine Confederation in Rome, Rev. Patrick Carter, O.S.B. (’05) made a first visit to his alma mater’s New England campus in November to lecture on the “Noble Due,” as understood by St. Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle.
“The first time I ever cracked open a work of William Shakespeare was during my freshman year of high school, when my English teacher assigned Julius Caesar. It was awful.”
Classical Learning Test (CLT) founder Jeremy Tate recently hosted Thomas Aquinas College alumna Laura (Steichen ’75) Berquist, a member of CLT’s board and the founder of Mother of Divine Grace School, on his podcast, “Anchored.”
“If philosophers and technologists struggle to identify what makes a human being fundamentally different from an AI system, Catholics do not have to.”
“Can artificial intelligence truly think and understand, just as the human mind does?”
So asks Dr. Michael Augros, a member of the teaching faculty at Thomas Aquinas College, New England, in “The Mind and the Machine,” a new, 10-part video podcast series on artificial intelligence.