St. Francis College now houses the first Troops to Teachers (TTT) office in New York State, thanks to a collaboration between the College and the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), and a grant from the federal government.

Dr. Steven M. Lipson, Professor of Biology & Health Promotion at St. Francis College, co-authored the book Cheating in Academia: Innovative Tactics, Insidious Ploys, and Defensive Rationale, published this past winter. Lipson and co-authors Dr. Lorraine Findlay of Nassau Community College and Dr. Laina Karthikeyan of New York City College of Technology examined why students cheat and how they do it.

Biology major Jenna Ellington '20 has research in her blood. At least in the lab, where she spent her summer at Brown University, an Ivy League institution in Providence, Rhode Island, as an intern studying diseases related to high blood pressure as part of the Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program.

Eight incoming students who are part of the this year's Project Access, a program that provides supplemental reading, writing and critical thinking training for select St. Francis College first-year students, completed one of two optional summer bridge seminars designed to transition them academically from high school to college.

St. Francis College will debut curated works from the Lise Curry Art Collection in Mirror Mirror on the Wall, an exhibition of contemporary portraiture, figure drawing and sculpture by established and emerging artists that opens on September 19th.Acquired over thirty years, New York City private collector Curry recently bequeathed more than 220 works to the College that reflect, in many cases, deeply personal, global perspectives on humanity and culture.

St.Francis College announced finalists for its 2019 SFC Literary Prize, a $50,000 biennial award for an author's third to fifth work of published fiction. They are: Jennifer Clement (Gun Love), Tsitsi Dangarembga (This Mournable Body); Brandon Hobson (Where the Dead Sit Talking); Samantha Hunt (The Dark Dark); David Joy (The Line That Held Us); Danzy Senna (New People). The winner will be revealed on September 21st.

Dr. Colleen Carmody is the new Department Chair of St. Francis College's Nursing Department. She's gearing up to start her first school year at SFC, and taking the reins of one of the College's most popular majors.

Fifteen area high school and college students tested their business mettle at St. Francis College's second annual eCamp, a five-day bootcamp from August 5th to 9th that exposes budding entrepreneurs to the nuts and bolts of starting businesses and culminates with participants pitching their business ideas to SFC faculty and guests who vote on their favorites.

St. Francis College alumni and friends hit the links on July 29th for the annual Brendan J. Dugan '68 Memorial Meadow Brook Club Golf Outing, a flagship fundraising event that brought in nearly $400,000 to support the College's mission of providing students an affordable, superior liberal arts education.