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During Walk the Walk Week each year, Notre Dame students, faculty, and staff participate in events designed to foster deeper belonging and inclusion on campus and beyond. This work continues year round, and we can draw inspiration from the examples of those in the Church who have come before us.Dorothy Day’s life is a powerful witness to faith lived in service of others.In 1972, the University of Notre Dame honored Day with the Laetare Medal. As Father Ted Hesburgh said, she embodied “the most radical approach of all: Christian love.” As co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement, Day united faith and action through hospitality, justice, and solidarity with the poor.Her legacy lives on in South Bend through ministries like St. Peter Claver Catholic Worker House and Our Lady of the Road, and in more than 220 Catholic Worker communities worldwide. In 2012, U.S. bishops recommended her for canonization. Today, she is recognized as a Servant of God.“We are working for ‘a new heaven and a new earth, wherein justice dwelleth.’ We are trying to say with action, ‘Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’” - Dorothy Day

What can extreme cold teach us about the human body—and ourselves?In this episode, Director of the Human Energetics Laboratory and anthropologist Cara Ocobock takes listeners inside her research on human adaptation, from subzero fieldwork in Finland with reindeer herders to lab studies on metabolism, cold exposure, and hunting unicorns.She also unpacks popular cold-plunge trends, what science actually says about them, and how lessons from our ancestors can help us understand resilience, wellness, and the remarkable ways humans have survived across time.Show links: • Episode page (https://fightingfor.nd.edu/podcast/cold-plunges-and-unicorns/) • The Winter Olympics, equality in sports, and exercising in the cold (https://fightingfor.nd.edu/podcast/the-winter-olympics-equality-in-sports-and-exercising-in-the-cold/) • ‘Woman the hunter’: Studies aim to correct history (https://news.nd.edu/news/woman-the-hunter-studies-aim-to-correct-history/ ) • Women’s higher resting metabolic rates in cold environments could be thyroid requirements for pregnancy, researcher says (https://news.nd.edu/news/womens-higher-resting-metabolic-rates-in-cold-environments-could-be-thyroid-requirements-for-pregnancy-researcher-says/)

Gary, Indiana, is a city with deep roots and a powerful story of resilience. Once a thriving steel town, Gary has faced decades of economic decline—but today, community leaders and the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture are working together to rebuild its downtown and restore opportunity.Through Notre Dame’s Housing and Community Regeneration Initiative, the city is developing a plan to revive its downtown, honor its history, and create a stronger future for residents. With community input and thoughtful urban design, Gary is charting a path toward social and economic renewal.

When Notre Dame student-athlete Daniel Boateng ’26 showed exceptional promise on the soccer field, his mother and grandmother reminded him to never lose sight of the power of education. Now a midfielder for the Fighting Irish, Daniel is helping children in his native Ghana access the same opportunities that changed his life.Through his nonprofit Changing Lives GH, founded with two Notre Dame teammates, Daniel is sponsoring 100 students who might otherwise never attend school and dreaming of a future where every child in Ghana can learn for free.Learn more: https://go.nd.edu/fighting-to-educate-children-in-ghana