July 09, 2025

Dr. Bridget Knuffke, who graduated this past May, has been awarded a prize by the Pontifical Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas for her doctoral dissertation, "Thomas Aquinas on Medicinal Punishment." The award will be conferred along with the Jubilee bronze medal by Cardinal José Tolentino de Mendonça, Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education, on 17 July in Rome. Congratulations to Dr. Knuffke and her dissertaton director, Research Professor Russell Hittinger.