From the latest in Italian soccer to a portable water fountain for dogs, St. Francis College student entrepreneurs pitched their best entrepreneurial ideas to a team of experts at the 2017 College-Wide Pitch Contest on April 27.

The year-end Project Access ceremony celebrated the success of a top graduate at St. Francis College as well as the potential of students currently in the program on April 27, 2017.

The rain washed out a night of New York Mets baseball April 25, but there was no stopping Dr. John Sexton from delivering his talk, Baseball as a Road to God, at a special St. Francis College presentation at Citi Field, hosted by Mets Owner Fred Wilpon.

Two producers of My Italian Secret: Forgotten Heroes, Vincent Marmorale and Vincent Degiaimo '72, a graduate of St. Francis College, came to St. Francis April 24, 2017 to screen the film then talk about the movie and the heroism of the Italians who saved thousands of lives during the Holocaust.

The St. Francis College Healthy Habits Club and Center for Entrepreneurship hosted the Third Annual Healthcare Entrepreneur Hackathon April 21, 2017 which featured research presentations by students as well as entrepreneurial pitches by students looking to introduce their ideas into the health care marketplace.

Brooklyn-based, rising star Tanwi Nandini Islam read from her novel, Bright Lines, and discussed her creative process at St. Francis College on April 20, 2017 as the latest author in the Walt Whitman Writers Series.

For a generation that has replaced words with emojis, the spoken word is still the most powerful way to make a point. On April 10, 2017, three students used their powers of persuasion to earn $1,200 in prize money at the College's Annual Delaney Speech Contest.

Clear blue skies and a cold wind set the backdrop for a morning when 225 runners registered to run in the 19th Eileen C. Dugan Memorial 5K at Brooklyn Bridge Park on April 8.

St. Francis College hosted Professor of History Joseph Dorinson (LIU) for a talk on the legacy of Jackie Robinson on April 5, 2017, nearly 70 years after Robinson broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

With the future of hundreds of St. Francis College students at the forefront, St. Francis College is proud to have honored John R. Buran (Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Flushing Financial Corporation and Flushing Bank) and Walton D. Pearson '83 (Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager Brown Capital Management) at its largest fundraiser of the year, the 56th Annual Charter Award Dinner, on April 4, 2017 at The Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers.