The floodgates are open as the St. Francis College Women's Film Festival is now accepting submissions for the 3rd annual celebration of women in film. Last year more than 1,000 filmmakers from 27 countries vied for almost 60 slots in the festival.

The Women's Poetry Initiative at St. Francis College and the Department of English welcomed Susan Miller, two-time winner of the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg prize for poetry, to read from her new collection of poems, Communion of Saints (Paraclete Press, 2017) on November 29, 2017.

St. Francis College welcomed Dr. Mical Raz on November 28, 2017 for the talk, Making Child Abuse White? Parents Anonymous, Physicians and Child Abuse Policy in the 1970s.

Margee Kerr, author of SCREAM: Chilling Adventures in the Science of fear came to St. Francis College to offer the talk, Hijacking Fear: The subtle, and not so subtle ways politicians and the media use fear to motivate action on November 21, 2017.

The tobacco epidemic kills 28,200 people every year in New York State alone and afflicts more than a half million New Yorkers with serious tobacco-related illnesses and disabilities. Despite a substantial decline in smoking rates in New York City in the past decade, there are still tobacco-related health disparities affecting many New Yorkers. As part of the Great American Smokeout (GASO), NYC Smoke-Free collaborated with St. Francis College in Brooklyn Heights to encourage smokers on campus and in the larger community to quit for one day and to raise awareness of the importance of smoke-free protections in creating environments where quit attempts are more likely to be successful.

It started out as a normal traffic stop and days later ended with the suicide of Sandra Bland. St. Francis College Sociology & Criminal Justice Professor Belen Lowrey-Kinberg examined that traffic stop from a new perspective, looking at the words used by Bland and the arresting officer.

The St. Francis Brooklyn Men's Soccer teams wins back to back NEC Championships and the fourth in five years.

St. Francis College hosted a panel discussion November 7, 2017 featuring the co-editor and contributors to a new book that examines how law, surveillance, and social control are used to stigmatize sex and fight against marriage equality, reproductive rights and access to birth control.

A full house of current nursing students learned important career advice from recent graduates, St. Francis College professors, and visiting nurses at a panel on Nursing Careers hosted by the SFC Nursing Club on November 6, 2017.