Brooklyn Heights, NY - - - With players and new recruits getting ready to begin their 2009 campaign, St. Francis College Men's Water Polo's New Head Coach Igor Samardzija was formally introduced today by St. Francis Director of Athletics Irma Garcia. Samardzija has been working hard the past several months, recruiting and putting together a schedule for the squad that includes two trips to the West Coast to face the nation's top Division I College teams.

St. Francis College has two great tools to help you take the next step in your job search. The SFC Job Bank helps you find full and part-time jobs as well as internships and volunteer opportunities while Optimal Resume helps you put your best foot forward for prospective employers.

St. Francis College now offers the opportunity to become part of that writing scene with its new MFA in Creative Writing beginning July 5 and led by new faculty member Marlon James, the 2015 Man Booker Prize winner for his novel A Brief History of Seven Killings.

Gabriella Pagan takes the top prize at this year's Delaney Speech contest, for her speech entitled "Anxiety: Conquering What Cripples."

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries was the featured guest in this year's Thomas J. Volpe Lecture, an annual event that brings world-renowned leaders from politics, business, entertainment and the arts to speak before the SFC student body. The online event attracted an audience of more than 200 people.

In an April 20, 2021, online discussion with the St. Francis College popular music class taught by Brian Gregory, Ed.D., assistant professor of communication arts, Augusta Palmer, Ph.D., associate professor of communication arts, moderated a discussion with writer Preston Lauterbach and 95-year-old Annye C. Anderson in which she reflected on her youth with blues legend Robert Johnson prior to his death in 1938 at the age of 27 and her lifelong connection with his musical legacy.

The annual literary discussion series hosted by St. Francis College's M.F.A. program in creative writing opened on July 8 with a conversation between the two bestselling authors.

More than 250 members of the St. Francis College community filled the College's Founders Hall April 27 as the College proudly honored the new members of the Duns Scotus Honor Society, Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz and Real Estate Developer and Philanthropist John Loconsolo at the College's 128th Charter Day.

In a stellar show of appreciation for Brendan J. Dugan '68, the deceased former President of St. Francis College, friends of the College donated $375,000 at the first Brendan J. Dugan '68 Memorial Meadow Brook Club Golf Outing, on June 20.