In July 2025, John Cabot University entered into a strategic partnership with Refraction, a prominent innovation hub based in northern Virginia, to establish the Refraction Innovation Fellowship, a remote professional development program designed to provide JCU students with direct exposure to the U.S. startup ecosystem.
JCU had the honor of hosting poet Nicole Sealey as the Writer in Residence for the 2025 Summer Institute of Creative Writing and Literary Translation. Prior to her Writer’s Talk, she spoke about her time at JCU, the process behind her work, and her deep love for poetry.
On Tuesday, May 27, JCU’s Guarini Institute for Public Affairs hosted the event “Pope Francis’s Legacy,” featuring a panel of journalists and scholars dedicated to exploring the impact of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who was Pope from 2013 to 2025.
John Cabot University students Nina Lange, Mario Dinicola, and Samuele Nusca-Dagon had the unique opportunity to intern with Fairfax City Economic Development. Their project focused on strategies to help Fairfax City attract Italian companies looking to expand into the U.S. market.
Francesca Mattetti, a Political Science major with minors in Legal Studies and Sociology at John Cabot University, interned at Talitha Kum, a Catholic network of religious sisters dedicated to combating human trafficking.
From June 17 to June 19, 2025, three recent JCU graduates and student leaders, Sebastian Terrazas, Rhoda Basoah and Federica Murgolo, attended the Student Leader Global Summit to present their project at the University College Cork, Ireland.
Erin Bello, from North Carolina, graduated from JCU with an Art History MA in 2019. She worked in submarine archeological sites.
On Monday, March 31, 2025, John Cabot University welcomed Addison Hollomon, a JCU alumna, who shared her experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer working in Morocco.
Alumnus Enrico Barchiesi graduated in 2021 with a B.A. in Business Administration and a minor in Entrepreneurship. When he was 21, he co-founded the startup EasyDesk, which he later transformed into Meravit, a data science and IT consulting agency.
In his Social Entrepreneurship course, Professor Riccardo Maiolini teaches students to think systematically about social and environmental values and develop a socially conscious business mindset.
John Cabot University students Nina Lange, Mario Dinicola, and Samuele Nusca-Dagon had the unique opportunity to intern with Fairfax City Economic Development. Their project focused on strategies to help Fairfax City attract Italian companies looking to expand into the U.S. market.
Francesca Mattetti, a Political Science major with minors in Legal Studies and Sociology at John Cabot University, interned at Talitha Kum, a Catholic network of religious sisters dedicated to combating human trafficking.
Erin Bello, from North Carolina, graduated from JCU with an Art History MA in 2019. She worked in submarine archeological sites.
In July 2025, John Cabot University entered into a strategic partnership with Refraction, a prominent innovation hub based in northern Virginia, to establish the Refraction Innovation Fellowship, a remote professional development program designed to provide JCU students with direct exposure to the U.S. startup ecosystem.
Professor Jakobsone Bellomi’s NGO Consulting Lab course adopts a holistic approach in its quest to uncover how to mainstream human rights, gender equity, diversity and environmental sustainability in the work of NGOs.
Professor Gazziano seeks to convey to students the importance of using technology to create value and reduce environmental impact. His Technologies and Strategies for the Sustainable Enterprise course introduces students to technical approaches of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to understand how to measure and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG).
Through his vocation for ecomedia literacy, Professor Antonio Lopez motivates students to embark on the quest for environmental awareness. Each of his courses presents unique challenges and innovative solutions to the ongoing environmental crisis.
In Professor Chiara Giaccari's Human Rights and Business class, students are challenged to act as advisors, encouraging companies to integrate human rights into every aspect of their operations.
The 10th edition of the Summer School on Migration and Human Rights organized by the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) and John Cabot University was successfully held at JCU in Rome from 7 to 11 July, 2025.
