St. Joseph's University, New York

Faculty News 📰| Earlier this month, Dr. Thomas Petriano led a four day seminar at Our Lady Queen of Martyrs in Centerport, NY examining the life and legacy of St. Francis of Assisi, and the reasons for his universal appeal, some 800 years after his death.

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Faculty News 📰 | Bill Martocci, CPIM, was honored with the Incentive Marketing Association (IMA) Karen Renk Award earlier this week at the IMA Summit Awards Ceremony hosted in Baltimore, MD. Congrats, Bill!

IMA Honours Bill Martocci, CPIM, with 2026 Karen Renk Award The Karen Renk Award is given to an IMA member who champions the...

Submit your nomination by August 1 for the next class of the St. Joseph’s University Brooklyn Bears Athletic Hall of Fame! 🐻🙌

Know a former Brooklyn Bear who deserves recognition? 🐻 Nominations are now open for the St. Joseph’s University Brooklyn Bears Athletic Hall of Fame. Help honor former student-athletes, coaches, teams, and supporters whose achievements, leadership, and lasting impact continue to inspire the community.

Learn more about the nomination process and submit your nomination by August 1: https://www.sjny.edu/alumni/bears-hof/nomination-form

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Our Brooklyn Writers Foundry Creative Writing MFA students had an extraordinary week in June jam-packed with workshops, lectures and seminars focused on the craft of writing contemporary works of fiction, nonfiction and poetry. This was the first time students in Brooklyn's only low-residency MFA program were able to experience our beautiful Clinton Hill campus and the NYC literary scene in person.

Brooklyn Writing Foundry Launches In-person Classes for New Low-Residency MFA Program - On Campus - St. Joseph's University, New York SJNY's Brooklyn Writers Foundry Creative Writing MFA gathered for a reading event given by the faculty members in the program.

Congrats to the 44 student-athletes who achieved a grade-point average of 3.5 or higher and earned a spot on the 2025-26 Bears Scholar-Athlete Team! 🙌🐻

2025-26 Bears Scholar-Athlete Team Announced - St. Joseph's University - Brooklyn 44 student-athletes who earned grade-point averages of 3.50 and above make up the 2025-26 team; the tenth in department history and the second following the shift from calendar year to academic year.

Message the St. Joseph's University New York Alumni account to request an banner and tag them in your posts to show how you're representing St. Joe’s around the world as you travel about this summer!

St. Joe’s is on the map – and around the globe – this summer! Recently, our banner made a stop in London with fellow members Debra Mecir ’24 ’25, Christine Renda ’12, and Heather Bollmann ’23 ’24.

Traveling this summer? We'd love to see where your adventures take you! Message us to get an SJNY banner and tag us to show how you're representing St. Joe’s around the world.

Faculty News 📰 | For as long as Dr. Kestrel Perez can remember, she knew she wanted to study the ocean. Currently, Dr. Perez's research focuses on how environmental stressors affect the earliest life stages of marine fish: the larvae, the juveniles, the small forage species that invisibly hold the entire marine food web together.

Where the Tides Take You - On Campus - St. Joseph's University, New York For SJNY biology professor Kestrel Perez, Ph.D., the ocean was always the destination — now she's bringing students along.

While you were away ... we spotted a new visitor at : a common snapping turtle! 🐢 Typically found in water (e.g. Patchogue Lake), females often travel onto land during this time of year to lay eggs. Maybe we'll see tiny hatchlings between August and October! 📷: The Center for Counseling & Wellness, St. Joseph's University

Funded through a gift from Trustee Marsilia Boyle ’69, students, faculty, staff and alumni gathered earlier this summer to clear out weeds and overgrown bushes from the Shea Garden behind O'Connor Hall, replacing them with native plants donated by the Long Island Native Plant Initiative (LINPI).

Sustainability Through Student Research in the Shea Garden - On Campus - St. Joseph's University, New York This summer, two biology students have been tending to the Shea Garden while using as it space for research and sustainability.