Winter Alumni Showcase Series 2025
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January 8 - Connie Snyder Mick '94, Ph.D. directs the Poverty Studies Interdisciplinary Minor at the University of Notre Dame and serves as the Director of Academic Affairs for its Institute for Social Concerns. Her teaching and writing explore causes, consequences, and effective responses to all dimensions of poverty, including economic, spiritual, and social exclusion. Her talk will connect her Church of the Brethren background with Catholic Social Teaching in the work to abolish poverty, which she practices in traditional classrooms, in the community, and in prisons. Register here.
January 14 - When Rachel Kurtz '74 Gross graduated from Manchester College, she wasn’t sure what her majors in psychology and peace studies would lead to. It turned out to be the Death Row Support Project which she founded and then led from 1978-2023. Now her daughter Heidi Gross ’02 is supporting the project, which provides pen pals for people under sentence of death in the U.S. Rachel and Heidi will talk about the project’s goals and what they’ve learned from some of the thousands of people who have participated. Register here.
January 21 - Dean Heather Twomey ’96 and Gilbert College of Business students will share about their January Session experiences traveling to Italy, Switzerland, and Paris where they learned about international business practices. They will share their goals going into the course, what they learned about the business practices in Europe, and how they compare to the practices in the U.S. We will also hear about their experiences with the new cultures in three European countries. Register here.
January 28 - We will hear from members of the Manchester Model UN Organization. The goals of the Model UN are to provide our students the skills and opportunities to represent a country delegation in a simulation of a United Nations Security Council meeting, and try to shape the current international system through decision-making and consensus-building. Our Model UN group recently participated in the Indiana Consortium for International Programs (ICIP) Model UN Security Council conference at IU Kokomo, where four Manchester delegates were selected by their peers (80 students from 5 universities) to receive awards for their performance! Register here.