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St. Bonaventure University

    Feb 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.

    Feb 24, 2026 | Dr. Jinjing Zhu, associate professor of Management, co-authored the research paper “Rotating Co-Governance: An Innovative Framework for Executive Power Transition.”

    Feb 24, 2026 | Dr. Scott Medler, professor of Physician Assistant Studies, published a paper in the International Journal of Strength and Conditioning in January.

    Feb 24, 2026 | Dr. Rebecca Hixon, assistant professor of English, has been named a section editor for the academic journal Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation.

    Feb 24, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will host a virtual reading and conversation with award-winning poet and essayist Brandon Shimoda March 12.

    Feb 23, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University hosted the regional phase of the 2026 MATHCOUNTS competition, a national contest for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students, Saturday, Feb. 14.

    Feb 22, 2026 | A day after nearly blowing a 3-0 lead, St. Bonaventure left no doubt in the final round of the American Collegiate Hockey Association Regional Tournament.

    Feb 21, 2026 | No. 3 St. Bonaventure held off No. 14 Sacred Heart, 3-2, to advance to Sunday’s final round of the American Collegiate Hockey Association Northeast Regional Tournament at Simsbury, Connecticut.

    Feb 19, 2026 | For the third consecutive year, St. Bonaventure University’s Sports Management program sent students to work the Super Bowl, continuing a growing tradition of immersive, high-level experiential learning within the School of Business.

    Feb 19, 2026 | St. Bonaventure (21-4-1), ranked No. 3 in the ACHA regional tournament, squares off with No. 14 Sacred Heart (12-8-3) in the first round at 10 a.m. Saturday in Simsbury, Connecticut. The game will be streamed here (subscription required).

    Feb 13, 2026 | St. Bonaventure’s Cole Bailey scored late in the third period and 3:45 into overtime to give the Bonnies a thrilling 3-2 win over the Purple Eagles Thursday night to capture the Upstate New York Collegiate Hockey League title at NU’s Dwyer Arena.

    Feb 13, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University students are once again working with PolitiFact Chief Correspondent Louis Jacobson and Jandoli Institute Executive Director Richard Lee to check facts and write articles for PolitiFact.

    Feb 11, 2026 | John Adams isn’t always remembered as readily as the rest of the Founders, but there would have been no United States of America without him. A new book by Dr. Chris Mackowski invites readers to take a fresh look just in time for America’s 250th birthday.

    Feb 10, 2026 | An article published in the AASA Journal of Scholarship & Practice titled “Are We Burned Out? A Multi-Year Statewide Study of P–12 Superintendents” was co-authored by Dr. Nicole V. Schilling, professor of Educational Leadership, and colleagues.

    Feb 10, 2026 | In December 2025, Dr. Leslie M. Sabina, professor of Music and chair of the Department of Art, Music and Theater, was one of several musicians honored in Buffalo by the Buffalo Musicians’ Association (Local 92, American Federation of Musicians) for 25 years of service.

    Feb 10, 2026 | Jason K. Bussman, adjunct lecturer in English, had a pair of essays published in Otherwise Engaged: A Literary and Arts Journal’s Winter 2025 issue: “No, I’m Not Nate Bargatze” and “The R2D2 Toy Everyone Wanted.”

    Feb 10, 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.

    Feb 10, 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.

    Feb 10, 2026 | The third edition of Dr. Chad Luke’s internationally-recognized text “Neuroscience for Counselors and Therapists: A Culturally Responsive Approach to Integrating Therapy and the Science of the Brain” has been published by Cognella Academic Press.

    Feb 10, 2026 | Dr. Adrienne Foos, associate professor of Marketing, published two peer-reviewed case studies in November in the Journal of Business Cases and Applications.