Sixty Five percent of students at New York City's Stuyvesant High School are Asian, but Asians only make up 12 percent of the citywide school population. The numbers are equally impressive at the other two gems in the city's public school crown, Bronx High School of Science (60%) and Brooklyn Technical High School (53%). So why do Chinese students excel in school? Three professors took a look and presented their research Friday, March 28 at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology (IICCP).

A crowd of students, faculty and members of the community filled the Maroney Forum at St. Francis College Thursday, March 27 for a talk by former City Council President and New York State Senator Carol Bellamy on how women and children are the main force behind positive societal developments across the world.

More than 100 St. Francis College students learned about a variety of careers in the insurance industry at the College's first Insurance Informational Fair, on Tuesday March 25th in the Callahan Center.

Former Brooklynite, Dr. Alan Astro returned to his home borough to talk about Yiddish Poetry of the Holocaust at St. Francis College on Friday, April 18. Professor Astro focused on poems by three writers: Jacob Glatstein, Aaron Zeitlin, and Abraham Sutzkever, showing their strikingly different responses to the catastrophe.

Just after learning the final fate of her husband, Daniel Pearl, Mariane Pearl made the decision that there was one way to get revenge on the terrorists that killed 'Danny', to have hope. Pearl talked about the death of her husband, the life of her son and her battle to spread hope with a standing-room only crowd of more than 300 people at St. Francis College Monday afternoon, March 10 as speaker for the Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series in Global Business and Finance.

Brooklyn writer and poet Siri Hustvedt treated a standing room only crowd of St. Francis College students and members of the Brooklyn community to a sneak peak of her forthcoming novel, The Sorrows of an American, Wednesday, February 20 during a reading in the St. Francis College Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture & Education.

The St. Francis College Board of Trustees awarded five college professors with promotions or tenure at its recent meeting. "These professors have spent years with our students in and out of the classroom as not just teachers, but mentors as well," said Vice President for Academic Affairs and Academic Dean Timothy Houlihan. "We are proud to honor their commitment to St. Francis College and to our students with these promotions."

More than 120 St. Francis College students and their families crowded into the Anthony J. Genovesi Center, Wednesday, January 30 for the College's Winter Commencement. The number of students who walked the aisle to receive their diplomas was the largest for a ceremony that continues to be an increasingly popular alternative to the traditional Spring Commencement.

St. Francis College Professor and Chairman of the Management Department Dr. John Dilyard and Economics Professor Dr. Behrouz Tabrizi offer these comments on the Federal Reserve Rate Cut on January 22, 2008:

St. Francis College students Michael Estrella and Nicole James were two of the more than 100 students who presented their science research at the Inaugural Independent Sector Undergraduate Research Exposition in Albany on Tuesday, January 22.