Survivors and resisters of the Holocaust have been a recurring subject for multidisciplinary artist Edward Hillel. Hillel spoke about his artistic process as part of St. Francis College's Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day observation on April 19, 2012 in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education.

Cold wind and rain couldn't keep 165 runners from helping to raise money for The Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, at the 14th Eileen C. Dugan Memorial 5K Fun Run on March 31, the first time the run was held in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

With the goal of helping to make better sense of our place in an evolving world, St. Francis College English Professor Gregory Tague edited his latest collection, Being Human: Call of the Wild (Editions Bibliotekos), an anthology featuring fifteen stories by twelve authors.

Arguing that liberal democracy offers, "the best and perhaps the only means for all people, no matter what race or creed, to reach their full potential and live in freedom," Ibn Warraq laid out his claims from his new book, Why the West is Best at a forum held at St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education on Wednesday, March 28

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.