With a nearly perfect score, a group of St. Francis College students under the supervision of Economics Professor Behrouz Tabrizi made it through to the semi-final round of the annual College Fed Challenge organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The St. Francis College Institute for International and Cross-Cultural Psychology welcomed Visiting Scholar Tahereh Ziaian, Ph.D. for the talk Mental Health and Well-Being of Refugee Children and Adolescents on November 10.

The St. Francis College Center for Entrepreneurship brought together a panel of business leaders and financial experts, including two St. Francis College alumni, to discuss Financing Your Company: From Startup, to Growth, to Exit Strategy on November 6, 2014.

State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver headed a contingent of local politicians who came to St. Francis College on June 25 for the formal unveiling of the Eileen C. Dugan Life Sciences Center.

Submissions are now being accepted for the fourth $50,000 St. Francis College Literary Prize, one of the richest book prizes in the United States.

Sean Pica, the Executive Director of Hudson Link, and a Hudson Link graduate, screened the movie The University of Sing-Sing, about the program on November 4, 2014.

The St. Francis College Center for Entrepreneurship welcomed former WNBA President Donna Orender as the Keynote Speaker for the first Women's Entrepreneurial Leadership Forum on October 28.

St. Francis College welcomed ice cream icon Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. as the 2014 Thomas J. Volpe Lecture Series speaker on October 27, 2014.

St. Francis College and BookCourt welcomed author Charles Baxter (Gryphon: New and Selected Stories, The Feast of Love, Believers) as the latest speaker in the Walt Whitman Writers Series on October 21.

St. Francis College presented a debate on the heatedly discussed Common Core Curriculum between Sol Stern of the Manhattan Institute and Peter Wood of the National Association of Scholars on Monday, October 20, at 12:30 in the College's Maroney Forum for Arts, Culture and Education.