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St. Bonaventure University

    Jun 24, 2026 | Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., the 20th president of St. Bonaventure, and Seneca artist Carson Waterman will receive honorary doctorates at the university’s 165th Commencement Exercises.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Charles Olomofe, visiting assistant professor of Public Health, had an abstract accepted for poster presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Epidemiologic Research (SER), in Boston, Massachusetts, in June.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Jason Margolis, professor of Educational Leadership, is co-author of "Spanners and enhancers: The role of teacher leaders in school evolution," an article just released in the journal Educational Management Administration & Leadership.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Faculty members Heather Harris, MFA, and Kimberly DeSimone, Ph.D., have been selected to present their research at the upcoming Academy of Business Research Conference, to be held Oct. 29–31 in Marathon, Florida.

    Jun 24, 2026 | A special performance by the Grammy-winning Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, under the direction of renowned conductor JoAnn Falletta, will officially launch the 30th anniversary celebration of St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts and open its 2025-2026 Exhibition and Performing Arts Season on Sunday, Sept. 21.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Mohammed A. Jahed, associate professor and chair of Management Sciences, co-authored an article titled “Unpacking the Protective Role of Supply Chain Resilience and Robustness: The Mediating Influence of Absorptive Capacity within a Resource Orchestration Framework” that was accepted for publication in the journal Logistics.

    Jun 24, 2026 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has released the second book in a series focused on mission integration in Franciscan institutions.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Christopher Stanley, professor emeritus of Theology and Franciscan Studies, has published the final novel in a historical fiction trilogy that has earned praise from historians and ordinary readers alike.

    Jun 24, 2026 | The St. Bonaventure University community is invited to a reading by poet and critic Laura Jaramillo at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, in Plassmann Hall, Room 11.

    Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University is just two weeks away from #GivingTuesdayatBonas, a 24-hour fundraising event on Dec. 2 that benefits the outreach ministries of the university’s Franciscan Center for Social Concern (FCSC).

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Carl J. Case, professor of Business Information Systems, and Darwin L. King, professor of Accounting, had their paper “Undergraduate Business Students Social Media Behavior: An Analysis of Academic Class" published in the Proceedings of the International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences International Academic Conference in Prague, Czech Republic.

    Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University alumnus and global businessman Dick Kearns, ’72, returns to his alma mater in October, bringing along a panel of international business executives for the 11th annual Kearns Global Business Forum.

    Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will receive $450,000 in federal funding to develop a Cyber Operations Center on campus. The university would bring actual cyber-attack material into a configured, closed-network environment and use that material for hands-on learning regarding attack prevention and detection/response techniques.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Three St. Bonaventure University faculty members have been recognized with 2026 Awards of Excellence, honoring outstanding achievement in teaching, scholarship and service.

    Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University has received another $500,000 grant from the Cabrini Health Foundation to benefit 30 Pell-eligible students in the health professions and education who might not otherwise have been able to attend SBU.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Conor Amendola, a Media Studies major from Erie, Pennsylvania, and Molly Edgington, an Inclusive and Early Childhood Education major from Glastonbury, Connecticut, have been named Ideal Bonaventure Students for the Class of 2026.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Sixty-four students from five area schools participated in the annual Challenge 24 math contest March 21 at St. Bonaventure University.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Richard Lee, a professor in the Jandoli School, spoke at the Mid-Atlantic Popular & American Culture Association conference in Atlantic City on Nov. 9.

    Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University has been awarded a four-year, $2.3 million federal grant to expand and strengthen the behavioral health workforce in rural communities across Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania.

    Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Doyle Pruitt, associate professor and Master of Social Work program director, published an empirical manuscript titled “Innocence betrayed: The impact of grooming and family betrayal on trauma symptoms in adult survivors of child sexual abuse” in the journal Child Abuse & Neglect with colleagues from PennWest University and Penn State University.