Tuesday, October 20, at 1:30 p.m. | West Campus
Guided 30-minute walks along the Laudato Si’ Walking Path at West Campus offer time for prayer, mindfulness, and reconnection with nature. Take a midday pause to recharge your body, mind, and spirit while building community. Participants should meet at the Laudato Si’ Contemplative Garden (outside Pios Kitchen) and head to the walking path from there.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. | Loris Forum
Join Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim as they explore how Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and Thomas Berry inspired Pope Francis’ Laudato Si’. Their insights connect ecology, evolution, and justice, guiding us in caring for our shared Earth community.
Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 11:30 a.m. | Pioneer Pavilion Cabanas
Join us in celebrating the spooky season! Students will have the chance to create their own poems on mini pumpkins, then take their unique creations home to enjoy.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, at 2 p.m. | Martire Theatre E-145
Join us for a screening of Disney and Pixar’s WALL-E! This beloved film follows a lonely robot on an adventure that explores caring for the environment, the effects of overconsumption, and our responsibility to care for our common home. Come enjoy a fun afternoon movie with fellow students and see why WALL-E still has such an important message for us today.
A wide array of vendors and campus organizations joined us to celebrate our Common Home in celebration of Earth Day. The event featured a recitation of poetry by the 2026/2027 St. Brigid Student Poet Laureate Maria Clara Bragagnolo Rose (pictured).
Laudato Si spin-to-win raffle at the Earth Day Celebration
SHU Environmental Club
Quotes from Pope Francis about caring for our common home
Prof. Chelsea King at the Laudato Si table; poets Maria Clara Bragagnolo Rose, Prof. Rick Magee and Beth Luoma; Craig Repasz of Lights Out Connecticut
Director of Community Science Michelle Lewis of the Sacred Heart University Science Center & Planetarium
Learning the message of Laudato Si
Planting seeds, making dry ice cream with the Chemistry Club and learning about SHU Dining's reusable mug campaign at the Laudato Si Earth Day Celebration.
Attendees decorate reusable canvas shopping bags
nOURish Bridgeport with Reverend Sara Smith
Laudato Si Ambassador Simin Bazargan with her interactive art project titled, “Flower of the Sun.”
Friends gather for the event
Guests enjoying the dry ice cream, seed planting and reusable bag giveaway
Laudato Si Ambassador Maxin Liao
Our guest speaker is John P. Slattery, executive director of the Carl G. Grefenstette Center for Ethics in Science, Technology and Law at Duquesne University.
As part of WSHU’s “Join the Conversation,” climate activist Wawa Gatheru will speak on the connection between social justice and sustainability.
Today many people believe that humans are the most intelligent, virtuous, successful species that ever lived. In this book talk, NYU primatologist Christine Webb will outline how human exceptionalism is an ideology that relies more on human culture than our biology, exposing many scientific studies’ biases against other species and revealing underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life. The guest speaker will be Christine Webb of Harvard University.
A meditative sound session featuring crystal and Himalayan bowls, chimes, gongs, drums, bells, flutes and more. Led by certified instructor Diane Barnett of Grounded Meditation.
A campus planting event before the weather gets cold! We will provide small pots, soil and seeds for planting. Come celebrate the season, connect with nature and bring a little greenery into your space.
Following a shipwreck, a robot named Roz becomes stranded on a remote island and is forced to learn how to survive in the wild. If you are curious about what happens to her or the unexpected bonds she forms with the animals around her, make a date to watch The Wild Robot with us in the Martire Theater. Stick around after for an open conversation with Dr. June-Ann Greeley and Dr. Chelsea King! Co-Sponsored by: Laudato Si’ Office of Sustainability & Social Justice and the 50 First Days Program
