Jun 24, 2026 | Tom Buttafarro, director of government & community relations, was recently inducted into the Exchange Club of the Enchanted Mountains. He was sworn in by Cora Martin, club president.

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Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Ebony White, associate professor of Counselor Education, recently published an article titled "Fostering Ubuntu in Black Adolescents: Group Counseling as a Pathway to Advocacy" in the International Journal of Group Psychotherapy.

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Jun 24, 2026 | SBU won the Old Blue 7s tournament at Mt. Vernon on Saturday, locking up a bid to the men's national 7s tourney in April. The Bonnies went 5-0 at the 16-team tournament, defeating Siena, 21-14, in the all-Franciscan title game.

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Jun 24, 2026 | The Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University has partnered with the Franciscan Study Center at Tilburg University, Netherlands, to launch a new association of scholars, teachers and students around the world to collaborate in the study of the Franciscan movement.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University has been awarded a 2026 Gold Bell Seal for Workplace Mental Health by Mental Health America, the second-highest distinction awarded by MHA.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University celebrated its 16th consecutive year of being a certified Arbor Day Foundation Tree Campus USA on Friday by planting a white pine tree outside its Administration Building.

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Jun 24, 2026 | Local high school students can accelerate their academic journey through St. Bonaventure University’s Early College Access programs, which allow them to earn affordable college credits while gaining real-world academic experience.

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Jun 24, 2026 | An empirical study by Dr. Tyrone Bynoe (left photo), associate professor of Education and director of the Educational Leadership program, and Dr. David Ersig, associate principal in the Utica community school system (outside of Detroit, Michigan), has been accepted for publication in the Journal for Teaching and Learning.

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Jun 24, 2026 | A song written by Sports Management Lecturer David Lukow called “These Ruins” has advanced to the semifinals of the 2025 International Songwriting Competition (ISC).

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Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Joseph Hall’s seventh full-length book of poems, “Buffalo Free Rapid Transit,” will be published in early April by Black Ocean Press.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University Biochemistry students who take the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB) certification exam continue to score well above the national average of the 1,000 college students annually taking the exam.

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Jun 24, 2026 | A Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic is returning to Olean this month and two longtime service organizations at St. Bonaventure are lending their support.

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Jun 24, 2026 | An article co-authored by Dr. Suzanne Soltysik, RN-BC, NPD-BC, CNE, focusing on an evidence-based practice initiative she spearheaded with the staff development team at Olean General Hospital was published in the American Nurses Association-New York news magazine.

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Jun 24, 2026 | Heather Lynn Harris’s children’s picture book manuscript, which has the working title “Junkyard Jewel,” has been accepted for publication by By Chance Books, an independent publisher based in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Jun 24, 2026 | Both the men’s and women’s club teams at SBU have qualified for the National Club Basketball Association North Atlantic Regional Tournaments this weekend at Syracuse University.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure and St. Francis universities have established a new 4+1 pathway that will allow qualified St. Francis students to earn both a Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and a Master of Social Work (MSW) in an accelerated timeframe.

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Jun 24, 2026 | The Bonnies travel to Houston today to prepare for Saturday’s National Collegiate Rugby D-I Championship match with Atlantic Rugby Conference rival Queens University.

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Jun 24, 2026 | Dr. Chris Mackowski, professor in the Jandoli School of Communication, was honored Feb. 9 by the Raleigh (N.C.) Civil War Roundtable as this year’s recipient of the T. Harry Gatton Award.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will host a poetry reading by Orchid Tierney on Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6 p.m. in the Athletics Hall of Fame, Reilly Center.

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Jun 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will host computer science researcher Sai Suman for a conversation and question-and-answer session on working with machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) models.

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