Eleven students, including six from St. Francis College, presented their summer research projects and unveiled a new exhibit they curated at the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) on July 11. The night was also a way to thank the JPMorgan Chase Foundation for supporting the intensive five-week program entitled Students and Faculty in the Archives (SAFA) which teaches the important skill of working with original research materials.

For the sixth year in a row Forbes.com has selected St. Francis College for its America's Top Colleges list while bestcolleges.com classified St. Francis as one of its Best Catholic Colleges.

The St. Francis Brooklyn Terriers are tied with DePaul University for the second-highest Division I team GPA in the WBCA Academic Top 25 Team Honor Roll for the 2012-13 season, the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) announced today. The Terriers are the only New York Metropolitan area squad to earn the honor.

Puzzles of Faith and Patterns of Doubt (Editions Bibliotekos), a new anthology edited by St. Francis College English Professor Gregory F. Tague, offers a collection of 15 poems and short stories that explore the role of faith in personal challenges, triumphs and failures.

Sociology and Criminial Justice Professor Nickie Phillips tackles the issue of "deathworthiness" and the Man of Steel in a blog post on the Wall Street Journal site.

The scholarly research of two St. Francis professors can now be found in two new books that go on sale this summer. Fine Arts Professor Jennifer Wingate's book, Sculpting Doughboys: Memory, Gender, and Taste in America's World War I Memorials (Ashgate), examines the unique position memorials of WWI soldiers hold in the social, cultural and artistic history of the United States. Sociology and Criminal Justice Professor Nickie Phillips wrote Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way (NYUPress), a look at how comic books reflect and provoke feelings on crime and punishment in modern day society.

NYSE Euronext will host its 26th annual NYSE Teachers Workshop beginning Monday, June 24, 2013. The annual program, in conjunction with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Office of Investor Education and Advocacy, helps approximately 200 teachers from across the United States educate students on the financial marketplace and its importance in their lives and the global economy.Teachers who successfully complete the NYSE Teachers Workshops can acquire post-baccalaureate academic credit from St. Francis College, in Brooklyn Heights, New York.

On June 5, the Accounting and Business Law Department brought back graduates from the past 30 years to talk about their experiences and network with recent and past alumni.

With her pet Chihuahuas, Piper and Penelope on her lap, Denise Porcaro '00 pieced together the elements of her life that brought her to the Lower East Side and the new home of Flower Girl NYC, her floral design shop.

A new study co-authored by St. Francis College Sociology Professor Emily Horowitz shows that black and Latino students who attend private Catholic colleges in the New York City area are much more satisfied with their college experience than those who attend comparable CUNY schools.