The recent move by St. Francis College to a new campus featuring a MakerSpace equipped with 3D printers and other cutting-edge technology makes this the perfect time to introduce a B.S. in Entrepreneurship and Organizational Innovation.

When Jennifer Baumgardner was growing up in the culturally and ethnically homogenous area of North Dakota she said it was very easy for her and her family to take some progressive stances on issues like civil rights and gay rights, she told a crowded Maroney Forum on Thursday, March 25 as a guest speaker brought by the St. Francis College Women's Studies Minor.

St. Francis College professors Ian Maloney (English) and Nickie Phillips (Sociology & Criminal Justice) have been sharing their expertise with both international and national audiences as featured speakers at two separate academic conferences this fall.

Past and present members of the nationally ranked St. Francis College Men's Water Polo team welcomed some high profile opposition into their home Brooklyn Heights pool in June when the Serbian Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning Oliver Dulic and Deputy Minister Bojan Djuric got in the water for a scrimmage with the team.

"St. Francis College leveled the playing field for me in life," said Michael J. Gibbons '62, the recipient of an honorary doctorate from the College, one of the many people honored as part of the annual Charter Day celebration on Friday April 24 commemorating the day the College received its charter from New York State and officially became a degree granting institution.

The St. Francis College Health Promotions Course, Death, Loss & Grief has been selected by Assisted Living Today as a Top 20 College Course for Geriatrics and Senior Care.

The scholarly research of two St. Francis professors can now be found in two new books that go on sale this summer. Fine Arts Professor Jennifer Wingate's book, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials (Ashgate), examines the unique position memorials of WWI soldiers hold in the social, cultural and artistic history of the United States. Sociology and Criminal Justice Professor Nickie Phillips wrote Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way (NYUPress), a look at how comic books reflect and provoke feelings on crime and punishment in modern day society.

The Staples Foundation is supporting St. Francis College and its goal of encouraging education and careers in science with a grant for $2,000 to support the College's Summer Science Academy.

Jurors for the $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize have narrowed the more than 170 submissions down to a short list of five novels competing for the biannual award, one of the richest in the United States.

St. Francis College Management Professor Barbara Edington says that situations of uncertainty are not always a bad thing. She recently co-authored the book The Silver Lining of Project Uncertainties (Project Management Institute) which helps guide project managers in finding opportunities hidden within uncertainty