With more than 35 submissions of poems, prose, and photographs, the new issue of Assisi: An Online Journal of Arts & Letters is now online at assisijournal.org. Volume 5, Issue 1 of Assisi features contributors from right here in Brooklyn and as far away as Detroit, San Jose, Turkey and New Zealand.

A rising senior majoring in Communication Arts, Ivana Grandic began her eight-week internship this week.

St. Francis College, with Catholic Charities of Brooklyn and Queens proudly launched the new St. Francis College Institute for Peace & Justice with the panel discussion, "Moving Beyond the 'Culture Wars': How Catholic Social Teaching also Can Enlighten Current Partisan Debate on Basic Questions of Poverty, War, and Social Justice" on May 1 at the College.

A distinguished collection of journalists and media experts came together at St. Francis College on Tuesday, February 23 in Founders Hall for the symposium: Journalism in the Age of the Internet, co-hosted by St. Francis and the Manhattan Institute.

Peniel E. Joseph, a Professor of History at Tufts University, a pioneering historian in the field of Black Power Studies, and an award-winning author came to St. Francis College February 11, 2015 to talk about his book, Stokely: A Life, a book about Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Pan-African movement.

As an homage to the forgotten and seldom talked about minor characters in novels, speaker Kate Christensen (2008 PEN/Faulkner Award winner), read three scenes from her various books as the latest speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series as St. Francis College on April 11.

As former Chairman and CEO of Metro New York / New Jersey Division of Sovereign Bancorp, Brendan J. Dugan '68 takes over as the 18th President of St. Francis College on July 1, his predecessor; Frank J. Macchiarola '62 is assuming a title that is familiar to him and to many around New York City, Chancellor.

Professor Alison Dell introduced her Molecular Biology Class to the online, international competition PHYLO. The goal of the game is to figure out ways to match sets of DNA to help look for ways to identify and further genetic disease research.