Tony and Emmy Award winner Lillias White offered up an intimate concert for St. Francis College students, faculty, staff and community members Monday, March 23 in Founders Hall. The performance was alternately passionate, humorous and educational.

Part reunion, part roast but 100% singing spectacle, the All City Concert Choir reclaimed its perch atop New York City's choral society on Saturday, March 14 at St. Francis College with a two hour concert celebration of the choir and the man who conducted them for decades, Dr. John Motley.

A theater full of St. Francis College Accounting, Business and Technology students had the opportunity to learn about the current economic climate from four prominent College alumni who all have an inside, up-close look at the finance industry on Thursday, March 12 in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education. St. Francis President Brendan J. Dugan '68, former Chairman & CEO of the Metro NY/NJ Division of Sovereign Bancorp moderated the panel which included; Edward Travaglianti '70 President of TD Bank Long Island, Lawrence A. Marsiello '72, Managing Member and Co-Founder of Wriston Capital Management and Vincent DeGiaimo CPA '72, the COO of Muirfield Capital Management.

Those who help women around the world break through economic and social barriers and some who have succeeded came together at St. Francis College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education, Wednesday, March 11 for the symposium, Empowerment at Work: Women Breaking Down Barriers in Our Global World.

In a globe spanning lecture that included everything from literary to pop culture references and took a hard look at the role of the writer, author Sir Salman Rushdie held rapt an overflowing crowd of more than 300 people for the 2009 Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series in Global Business and Finance on Monday, March 9 at St. Francis College.

St. Francis College Business Law students and College alumni had the opportunity to rub shoulders with a titan of the legal world and St. Francis College alumnus, Roy Reardon '51, J.D., a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett on March 3.

St. Francis College is pleased to announce the creation of a new $50,000 literary prize for an author's fourth book of fiction. The book can be either a novel or collection of short stories. The jury reading the entries is a literary all-star team featuring Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon (The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay), National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction winner Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn), author and co-editor of The Believer magazine Heidi Julavits (The Uses of Enchantment: A Novel), author and head of the writing MFA program at Columbia University Ben Marcus (The Age of Wire and String) and author Ayelet Waldman (Love and Other Impossible Pursuits).

St. Francis College's Founder Hall was not big enough to hold everyone who wanted to see Poet Nikki Giovanni deliver a rapid fire lecture of cultural quips, stories and, of course, the poems she is so well known for as part of the College's Black History Month celebrations, Monday, February 9. Several dozen people watched Giovanni on a simulcast in the adjacent Callahan Center.

More than 110 students earned their diplomas Wednesday, January 28 at the St. Francis College Genovesi Center as the College hosted the Winter 2009 Commencement.

More than 125 academics, professional scientists and experts came to St. Francis College November 14 and 15 to help draw attention and spark interest in the sciences across the region as part of the 2008 Northeast Regional Meeting of the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE).