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).

In the dark, wood-paneled library of the Brooklyn Historical Society, students in Eric Platt's history class pulled on pristine white gloves and began to pore over delicate black and white photos laid out on long tables. Some of the photographs — dating back to around 1900 — are grainy family portraits taken on the Coney Island boardwalk and printed on iron sheets. Later photos, taken in the 1980s in the same location, show graffiti-scarred, dilapidated buildings.

The Staples Foundation is supporting St. Francis College and its goal of encouraging education and careers in science with a grant for $15,000 to support the College's Summer Science Academy.

Students, faculty and leaders of St. Helen's School and St. Francis College gathered on a sunny, Monday morning, November 14, to celebrate the partnership that will enable top ranked St. Francis College to share higher education resources with the students of St. Helen's School.

Editor and biographer Paul Elie, author of The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage spoke about the four American contemporary authors featured in his book; Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Flannery O'Connor; on November 14 at St. Francis College.

A crowd of students, friends, and family gathered inside St. Francis College's Founders Hall on 11/11/11 for the east coast premiere of "In Black," the award winning feature film by St. Francis alumnus Evan Apostolakos '11.

St. Francis Fine Arts Professor Dr. Francis Greene traces the changing artistic representations of Jesus throughout history as part of the 2011 season of Mysteries of the Church, a documentary show on NET TV.

As the attacks of 9/11 move further into the past, St. Francis Professors Francis Greene & Brother Edward Wesley, spoke about how memorials and a Franciscan approach to the events help people commemorate and reflect on the tragedy at a talk on November 7 in the St. Francis Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Entertainment.