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Student Campus Announcements, 10/28

In this edition:

  1. New Off-Campus Dining Vendors Added
  2. Chartwells Survey
  3. 2025 Delta Epsilon Sigma Writing Contest
  4. Equity Collective Series Led by Morgan Stanley
  5. Iona Rock Band Fall Semester Concert, 10/29
  6. Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Alec Zuercher Reichardt, 10/29
  7. Montgomery Parking Lot Closure, 10/30
  8. It’s Sock-tober! Drop Off Donations in the Kelly Center & Bronxville Café
  9. Busy People Retreat, 11/2-11/7
  10. The Vatican Archives, the Holocaust, and its Aftermath: Kristallnacht Commemoration, 11/10
  11. Collaboration in Complex Care: Interprofessional Strategies for Long-Term and Palliative Care, 11/13
  12. 2025 Week of the Peacemaker
  13. November 2025 Month of Remembrance
  14. Iona Ireland Info Session and Scholarship, 11/18
  15. 2025 Iona University Thanksgiving Basket Drive, 11/19
  16. One Table, Many Voices: Standing Together Thanksgiving Diversity Breakfast, 11/20
  17. More Important News & Deadlines

New Off-Campus Dining Vendors Added

Business Services would like to remind the Iona community about new off-campus vendors on the Iona University meal plan. Purchases can be made with flex points at the following locations:

• Graziella’s Market: 321 White Plains Road, Eastchester;
• The Taco Project: 65 Pondfield Road, Bronxville;
• The Taco Project: 596 North Avenue, New Rochelle;
• Toastique: 604 North Avenue, New Rochelle;
• Tuck’D Away: 90 Yonkers Avenue, Tuckahoe; and
• most recently added is Dantoni’s Pizza, located at 495 New Rochelle Road, Bronxville. 

Students can add flex points to their meal plan here.

Chartwells Survey

We want to hear from you! Through Voice to Vision, our annual campus dining survey, we gain insights for reinventing and enhancing the campus dining experience. This survey helps us better understand what is important to the Iona community in dining. Please click here to complete the survey and provide us with your feedback.

2025 Delta Epsilon Sigma Writing Contest

Delta Epsilon Sigma (DES), the national honor society for colleges and universities in the Catholic tradition, sponsors an annual writing contest open to any undergraduate in an institution which has a chapter of the society. Manuscripts may be submitted in any of five categories: (1) Poetry, (2) Short Fiction, (3) Creative Nonfiction/ Personal Essay, (4) Critical/Analytical Essay and (5) Scholarly Research.     

The first-place winner in each of the five categories will receive a $500 prize. A second prize of $250 is also sometimes awarded. Winning entries may be selected for publication in the DES Journal.

The deadline to submit an entry is Tuesday, November 25.

If you are interested in submitting an entry, please contact Dr. Sean D'Alfonso, director of Mission & Ministry, at sdalfonso@iona.edu.

Equity Collective Series Led by Morgan Stanley

The Equity Collective Program invites students to participate in upcoming sessions to learn career insights, build a professional network, gain access to opportunities and more. 

Wednesday, October 29
Session 2 is open to all students with a cap of 60 students. This session will include presentations on resume best practices, how to prep for a finance interview and an inside look of the analyst experience.
Register: Equity Collective Session 2, 10/29

Wednesday, November 5
Session 3 is off-site at Goldman Sachs headquarters in Manhattan. It is open to all students with a cap of 25 students. There will be a tour of Goldman Sachs followed by a panel with analysts and associates as well as an overview of their recruiting process.
Register: Equity Collective Session 3, 11/5

Contact Dr. Alison Munsch for additional information: amunsch@iona.edu. Please register for these events on Handshake.

Iona Rock Band Fall Semester Concert, 10/29

The Iona Rock Band (formerly the Faculty-Students Band) will have its fall concert on Wednesday, October 29, at 12:30 p.m. on Murphy Green (rain location: Murphy Auditorium). The band will play a mix of pop, rock and metal songs from the 1960s to the 2000s. Come support your friends and faculty, and enjoy an hour of music and fun.

Quaff & Quill: Book Talk with Alec Zuercher Reichardt, 10/29

Join the Institute for Thomas Paine Studies for a talk with Professor Alec Zuercher Reichardt (University of Missouri) about his book "Roads to Power, Roads to Crisis: The War for the American Interior and the Infrastructural Routes of Revolution" (2025) to learn about imperial competition to control communication networks during the Seven Years’ War and the American Revolution.

Date: Wednesday, October 29, 6–7 p.m.
Location: Ryan Library

Light refreshments will be served.

Presented in partnership with the Huguenot & New Rochelle Historical Association.

Montgomery Parking Lot Closure, 10/30

Please be advised that the Montgomery Parking Lot will be closed on October 30, 2025. Thank you.

It’s Sock-tober! Drop Off Donations in the Kelly Center & Bronxville Café 

This October, the NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences is excited to partner with The Sharing Shelf of Port Chester for Sock-tober - our campus sock drive to support children and teens in need.

We’re collecting brand-new socks (still in their packaging) in all sizes, from infants to adults.

Socks may be small, but they make a big difference. Having this everyday essential helps kids and teens feel comfortable, confident, and ready to learn and grow.

Drop your donations in the collection boxes located in the Kelly Center lobby and the Bronxville Café through October 31.

Let’s come together to fill these boxes and show our community the power of small acts of kindness!

Busy People Retreat, 11/2-11/7

Too busy for a getaway? We get it! Take a retreat on your own time. Pause from studying to pray and reflect on the beauty of creation as inspired by St. Francis’ Canticle of the Creatures.

• Attendees meet with a spiritual guide for daily prayer and reflection.
• Partners meet each day, Monday–Thursday, at an agreed-upon time.
• On Friday, the retreat concludes with lunch and reflection.

All are welcome! This is a free retreat, but registration is required. Sign up here.

The Vatican Archives, the Holocaust, and its Aftermath: Kristallnacht Commemoration, 11/10

Join us on Monday, November 10, at 7:30 pm in Burke Lounge as Iona's Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies and the Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center host an expert panel from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to speak about the last findings from the Vatican Archives during the period of Pope Pius XII (1939-1958).

Collaboration in Complex Care: Interprofessional Strategies for Long-Term and Palliative Care, 11/13

Join us for the second presentation of the Symposium on Health and Well-Being.

Caring for individuals facing chronic or terminal illness requires teamwork, empathy, and holistic understanding. Through two case studies, professionals from NewYork-Presbyterian will share how healthcare and spiritual care teams collaborate to provide comfort and continuity of care supporting patients, families, and one another through some of life’s most challenging moments.

Date: Thursday, November 13
Reception: 5:30 p.m. 
Program and Q&A: 6-7:30 p.m.
Location: Sommer Center, Iona Bronxville Campus

All students, faculty, staff and community members are welcome to attend. RSVP here. 

2025 Week of the Peacemaker, 11/16-11/21

For over 40 years, Iona University has chosen the time surrounding Veterans Day to dedicate academic and co-curricular attention to peacemaking. Each year the University chooses a theme for its Week of the Peacemaker, and through a variety of activities, conveys this theme in diverse and dynamic ways. The 2025 Week of the Peacemaker, "Living Iona’s Mission: Fighting the Good Fight for a World in Crisis," will be held from November 16-21.

This year's week will host events aimed at raising awareness of and responding to the many concerns across our world that call for action as inspired by the Christian Brothers’ values of presence, compassion, and liberation, and our University’s motto, Certa Bonum Certamen.  

To see the full calendar of events for this year’s Week of the Peacemaker, click here.

November 2025 Month of Remembrance

The month of November is a time in which the Church traditionally remembers those whom God has called through death to eternal life. Beginning with the Mass for All Souls Day, and at all Masses throughout the month of November, the Office of Mission & Ministry will pray in remembrance for deceased alumni, staff, friends and relatives and Christian Brothers of the Iona University community. 

We kindly ask that you use this link to write the names of your beloved departed who will be remembered at November's Masses.

Iona Ireland Info Session and Scholarship

Iona Ireland Info Session, 11/18
Interested in studying abroad in Ireland? Join us for an info session to learn about the Iona Ireland Summer 2026 Study Abroad Program! This session will focus on HST 337, a 3-credit course that satisfies DCCG requirements. Please note that BUS 491, NUR 302/3020 and CSD 519 (graduate course) are also offered at the Iona Ireland location. Get details on the course, application process, cost and have your questions answered! The application deadline for Iona Ireland is December 1, 2025. 

When: Tuesday, November 18, Noon-1 p.m.
Where: Hall, Room 115

The Charles Patrick McCarthy Scholarship
Students may also apply for the Charles Patrick McCarthy Scholarship. Applications are due by Friday, December 5, 2025, and applicants must first submit a study abroad application to be considered.

Apply Now: Charles Patrick McCarthy Scholarship

Read more about The Charles Patrick McCarthy Scholarship

2025 Iona University Thanksgiving Basket Drive, 11/19

Iona’s legacy of service and spirit of generosity will once again be on full display for this year’s Thanksgiving Basket Drive! The Office of Mission & Ministry invites all members of the Iona University community to join in this year’s drive, which will provide all of the necessary ingredients for more than 140 local families to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal.

Baskets from this year’s drive will support families from many of our local community partners including HOPE Community Services and Big Vivs Inc. in New Rochelle, A.C.T. Inc. in White Plains and Thrive for Life in Manhattan and the Bronx.

Please click here to learn more about this year's drive, and to sign up to sponsor a basket.

Our annual Thanksgiving Basket Blessing ceremony will take place on Wednesday, November 19, at 4 p.m., in Mulcahy Gymnasium.

We are so appreciative of your support for the drive and thank you in advance for your generosity!

Questions? Please contact Sean D'Alfonso, Ed.D., in the Office of Mission & Ministry, at: sdalfonso@iona.edu. 

One Table, Many Voices: Standing Together Thanksgiving Diversity Breakfast, 11/20

On Thursday, November 20, come celebrate the power of community, connection and shared purpose. This annual gathering brings us together to honor the richness of our differences and to listen, learn, and grow in understanding. Join the Iona Pipers, the Iona NightinGAELs, and the Driscoll Professorship in Jewish-Catholic Studies as Iona hosts this breakfast gathering of over 300 interfaith leaders, congregation leaders, advocates for fair housing & fair wages, and workers for peace from all over Westchester and Fairfield counties. 

Students are free and should email eprocariofoley@iona.edu to attend.

When: Thursday, November 20, 8 - 10 a.m.
Where: Mulcahy Gym

More Important News & Deadlines

Submitted on: October 28, 2025

Submitted by: University Marketing & Communications