"Without Twitter, without Facebook, without YouTube, there's a very good chance that Mubarak might have endured," media studies expert Paul Levinson told a packed audience referring to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education on February 23 as part of his lecture, Marshall McLuhan at 100. "It's tough to overthrow someone but it becomes easier when that attempt to change the government is tied into a global village that's watching and communicating back and forth."

On Valentine's Day, St. Francis College hosted its second annual reading of poetry and prose, Love Springs Eternal, by the senior citizens in the College's For Seniors Writing Class, taught by Professor Mitch Levenberg, Director of the College's Academic Enhancement Center. The event took place in a crowded Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education with guests including City Councilman Stephen Levin, whose support along with Council Speaker Christine Quinn, makes the For Seniors program possible.

St. Francis College Economics Professor Behrouz Tabrizi will be a special guest on the NET TV program, In the Arena, on the "Crisis in Egypt," which debuts this Sunday, February 13 at 7:00pm.

The question, Is the New York Times Good for Democracy? cast the opposing speakers far apart ideologically in their panel discussion at St. Francis College on Monday, February 7 at the College, but Michael Tomasky, Editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas and American Editor-at-Large of The Guardian and William McGowan, author of Gray Lady Down (Encounter Books)were both brought further to the center as the night continued.

Families and friends of the late Brother Edmund Holmes, OSF '28 came to St. Francis College for a Mass and to dedicate the college's newest lecture hall in his memory. It was the support of Brother Edmund's Franciscan Brothers and his family that made it possible to construct the state-of-the-art teaching facility.

Speaking humbly but with stories from decades of successful experiences, author E.L. Doctorow addressed an eager audience of St. Francis College students, faculty and administrators as well as members of the larger St. Francis community, as the latest honored guest of the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series on Thursday, February 3

St. Francis College Biology Professor Irina Ellison is in a major battle. It's not the fight of her life, but the lives of others as she tries to help people break their addiction to smoking.

Global warming is an indisputable fact, Michael Oppenheimer, member of a Nobel Prize-winning UN panel told an audience during his lecture Thursday, January 20 at St. Francis College, saying it's now our responsibility to lessen how big the climate change will be

St. Francis College is proud to announce the promotion of Joseph Cummings as the College's new Assistant Vice President of Enrollment Management Services where he will oversee the areas of Admissions and Student Financial Services.

Two St. Francis College students made sure children at New York Methodist Hospital were not left out of the holiday of season this year when stopped by the Pediatric Ward for a special toy delivery before Christmas.