February 2025 - News Articles

“22 Helping Hands over 2.7 Hours”: The SC&I Office of Student Services Volunteers at Elijah’s Promise

During the 2024 holiday season, SC&I’s OSS team brought their collective time, energy, and enthusiasm to the Elijah’s Promise kitchen where they “cleaned and cut nearly 400 pounds of vegetables and cooked over 120 pounds of pasta, giving our chefs the ingredients they needed to prepare meals for about 600 people the next day,” said Elijah’s Promise Chef Chrissy Banks.

The Faith and Politics Institute Names Faith Wilson JMS’24 a John Robert Lewis Fellow 2025-2026

The prestigious and highly competitive fellowship was formed by The Faith and Politics Institute after the 2020 death of the late civil rights leader and U.S. Representative John Robert Lewis. As a fellow, Wilson will concentrate on studying the six principles of nonviolence and the history of the Civil Rights Movement.

Honoring John Lewis on the 60th Anniversary of the “Bloody Sunday” March to Selma

“Lewis’s heroism was central to the Selma campaign in 1965, and he also was the one who did the most to keep Selma alive in popular memory in the last few decades, through these pilgrimages. So he really is the person with whom the campaign is most associated,” said SC&I and History Professor David Greenberg, author of “John Lewis: A Life.”