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								May 19, 2025
							SFC Graduate with Cerebral Palsy Walks Across Stage in Emotional Commencement Moment
March 8, 2018
							SFC Entrepreneurs Talk About Their Businesses
				The St. Francis College Entrepreneurship Club welcomed three current students to talk about their businesses for a Peer to Peer workshop on March 8, 2018.
			
							Academics
								March 6, 2018
							Maria Edgeworth and Teaching Children in the 18th Century
				The way to teach children underwent a major upheaval at the end of the 18th century as Maria Edgeworth revolutionized children's literature. Rebecca Shapiro, an Associate Professor of English at City Tech, talked about Edgeworth's new approach in a lecture held March 6, 2018.
			
							Academics
								February 27, 2018
							The Real History of Five Points & 19th Century New York
				Tyler Anbinder, consulted on Gangs of New York and tells us what's true... what's movie magic... and why (1:01.30). He spoke at St. Francis College on February 27, 2018 as part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, "From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."
			
							Student Life
								February 20, 2018
							Early National Literature in America - SFC Professor Ian Maloney
				St. Francis College English Professor Ian Maloney explored the Origins of Early National Literature in America on February 20, 2018 as part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, "From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."
			
							Academics
								February 14, 2018
							Valentine's Day Special - Is Love at First Sight Real?
				The idea of love at first sight is a common plot twist in fairytales and rom-coms, but does love at first sight exist? St. Francis College Psychology Professor Marisa T. Cohen explains in a Newsweek video that the phenomenon has more to do with infatuation than Cupid's arrow.
			
							Academics
								February 13, 2018
							Women Slaves in the Antebellum South
				St. Francis College welcomed Professor and Author Deborah Gray White to speak about Women Slaves in the Antebellum South on February 13, 2018 as part of the Spring 2018 Senior Citizen Lecture Series, From New Nation to World Power: Culture, Politics, and Society in the United States, 1789-1896."
			
							Academics
								February 9, 2018
							SFC Welcomes 60+ to New Biology Honor Society
				A new Honor Society comes to St. Francis College and with it, the opportunity for students to apply for research grants and present their work at national conventions.
			
							Academics
								February 6, 2018
							Pulitzer Prize Winning Historian on Pre-Civil War Politics
				The politics of the United States pre-Civil War was far more complicated than most people think, says Pulitzer Prize winning historian Steven Hahn in a lecture held February 6, 2018
			
							Academics
								February 5, 2018
							Gateway to a Great Education
				While waiting for a train outside Union Station in Washington D.C., Nidia Perlata '18 and K-Andrea Limol '19 decided they wanted to explore the city... they never guessed that three years later they would be sharing an apartment in Brooklyn and working towards undergraduate degrees at St. Francis College.
			
							Academics
								February 2, 2018
							SFC Professor Supports Scholarships to Help Save Orangutans
				Teaming up with Dr. Gary Shapiro, founder and president of The Orang Utan Republik Foundation in Santa Monica, California, St. Francis College English Professor Gregory F. Tague and Fredericka Jacks are happy to announce they have fully funded an Orangutan Caring Scholarship that will send a deserving Indonesian student to college to study forestry or biology.