St. Francis College Psychology major Katharine Diehl '13 has just written her own ticket to an amazing summer experience, literally. Katharine submitted five of her own poems and a letter of recommendation from English Professor Wendy Galgan to Skidmore College for a chance to make it into the 2012 New York State Summer Writers Institute Scholarship Program. She was one of 36 writers from a pool of 375 offered a full scholarship to attend the second of two, two week workshops at the College.

St. Francis College introduced John Thurston as the new head women's basketball coach after serving the past two seasons as associate head coach. Thurston replaces Brenda Milano who resigned after completing her ninth season leading the Terriers.

Barack Obama in Hawaii and Indonesia: The Making of a Global President (Praeger), a multicultural biography of U.S. President Barack Obama written by Dinesh Sharma, a Senior Fellow at the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Research at St. Francis College, made the Top 10 list for Black History Nonfiction for 2012.

Reading from his new novel, The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus painted a horrifying picture of a world where the sound of children talking causes the death of their parents. As the latest speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series sponsored by St. Francis College on March 8th, Marcus went on to explore the question of,

St. Francis College English Professor Gregory Tague digs deep inside the psychological effects of combat, editing Battle Runes: Writings on War (Editions Bibliotekos), his latest collection of short stories and poems from twenty-one acclaimed and award-winning authors.

Somerset, NJ – Four St. Francis College student athletes were named the Northeast Conference 2011 Fall Commissioner's Honor Roll for their outstanding achievements in the classroom. These four as well as 13 others were named to the list of Scholar-Athletes for the Fall season.

Charter Schools were introduced as a way to improve the public school system through innovation and competition, but in New York, those Charters have had the unintended consequence of reducing enrollment at Parochial Schools across the state, says Abraham Lackman of the Albany Law School's Government Law Center at the panel discussion The Tension Between Catholic Schools & Charter Schools held at St. Francis College February 13.

St. Francis Management Majors have again achieved top rankings in the international GLO-BUS management simulation competition, scoring a first place finish and top five percent finish among almost two thousand competitor teams from more than 100 colleges and universities.

Telling her fellow classmates that getting by is not enough, St. Francis College Winter 2012 Valedictorian, Hadar Burger encouraged her classmates to follow their dreams with passion and to, "choose to flourish and to succeed."

Five outstanding former student-athletes were inducted into the St. Francis College Hall of Fame on Saturday, January 21st at the Brooklyn Heights campus: Ron Arnold (06', Men's Basketball), Shelia M. Pickard (79, Women's Swimming), Mark Ferro (83', Men's Swimming & Water Polo), Gary Gooden (97', Men's Soccer, Track & Field), and Marie McGoldrick-Raico ('94, Women's Volleyball & Softball).