The new student-run music and theater Production Company Sunlit Sandwiches is getting some nice publicity for the slate of shows its producing this spring. A small promo for the show in the daily amNY was followed by a profile on the group on the Downtown Brooklyn partnership website.

Students in English Professor Virginia Franklin's American Playwrights class worked on personal monologues with Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence Vaneshran Arumugam as part of a dramatic workshop.

Poet Kathryn Stripling Byer was the inaugural featured speaker in a series sponsored by the newly-formed Women's Poetry Initiative at St. Francis College and the Women's Studies Minor on Wednesday, March 20.

As St. Francis College plays host to a series of mayoral forums featuring the candidates for the 2013 election, the College also hosted a lively discussion on the challenges the next mayor will face with the forum, Who Should be the Next Mayor of New York?, featuring a selection of reporters and activist from across the political spectrum.

St. Francis College Professor Emily Horowitz fights to overturn the conviction of a man accused of sexual abuse of children.

In celebration of Irish Heritage, Clare Carroll, Professor of the Comparative Literature Department and former Director of Irish Studies (1997-2011) at Queens College offered the lecture, Exiles in a Global City: The Irish in 17th Century Rome, on Monday, March 18.

Shortly after Argentine Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected to become the next Pope, a producer from WNBC called St. Francis History Professor and Franciscan Brother Geoffrey Clement to ask him to talk about the historic event.

The St. Francis College Institute for Peace and Justice was profiled this weekend along with Catholic Charities for their Day of Service at the Northside Senior Center in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

The Haitian Revolution may have succeeded in giving Haiti independence from France, but it also laid the groundwork for many of the problems that have plagued Haiti over the past 200 years, said former Haitian Ambassador to the United States Raymond Joseph at a talk at St. Francis College on March 4

As Pope Benedict XVI concluded his final day as worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, Bro. Geoffrey Clement appeared on WNBC Nonstop to talk about the pending conclave. He discussed the process for selecting the new Pope as well as significant past conclaves.