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    Jan 10, 2025 | Three scholars from the Franciscan Institute at St. Bonaventure University have joined in the publication of a new international volume titled “Trust: Franciscan Connections in Theology, Spirituality, Economics and Beyond.”

    Dec 20, 2024 | For the 43rd consecutive year, students from St. Joseph’s Collegiate Institute delivered a truckload of nonperishable food items and paper products Friday to the Warming House, St. Bonaventure University’s soup kitchen on North Union Street in Olean.

    Dec 07, 2024 | This afternoon, Brown (11-0), ranked No. 2 in the NCR D-I poll, converted a short penalty kick on the final play of the match to edge the No. 3 Bonnies, 11-10, and advance to next Saturday’s title game in Houston.

    Dec 05, 2024 | For the third year in a row, St. Bonaventure will square off with Brown University in the final four of the National Collegiate Rugby Championship. The Bonnies (7-3), ranked No. 3 in the latest NCR Division I poll, meet the No. 2 Bears (10-0) at 1 p.m. Saturday at Penn State-Berks.

    Nov 26, 2024 | St. Bonaventure University has renewed its longstanding partnership agreement with Mt. Irenaeus, the Franciscan mountain community in Allegany County.

    Nov 23, 2024 | St. Bonaventure (7-3), ranked No. 4 in the latest National Collegiate Rugby Division I poll, held off Thomas More University (6-3) on Saturday, 30-24, to advance to the NCR Championship semifinals for the fourth straight year.

    Nov 22, 2024 | The Bonnies (5-3), ranked No. 4 in the latest NCR Division I poll, travel to Crestview Hills, Kentucky, to meet Big Rivers Conference champion Thomas More University (6-2) at noon Saturday. The game will be livestreamed.

    Nov 20, 2024 | Rico Roman, a three-time Paralympic gold medalist in sled hockey and a U.S. Army veteran who received a Purple Heart after being wounded in Iraq, will share his inspiring story at St. Bonaventure University on Thursday, Nov. 21.

    Nov 19, 2024 | Freddie Coleman, longtime ESPN Radio host, will broadcast his 3-7 p.m. national show from the Reilly Center Wednesday, just before the unbeaten Bonnies (4-0) men’s basketball team take on Mansfield University.

    Nov 16, 2024 | Down 10-0 to Dartmouth Saturday morning at the Marra Athletic Fields Complex, St. Bonaventure scored 28 unanswered points en route to a 41-17 victory over the Big Green to advance to the quarterfinals of the National Collegiate Rugby tournament.

    Nov 15, 2024 | It’s national tourney time again and Danny Neighbour believes his club has the ability to reach the National Collegiate Rugby title game for the third time in four years.

    Nov 07, 2024 | Less than a year removed from winning the small-college national rugby title, St. Bonaventure is one win away from returning to the national stage, this time in Division I.

    Nov 05, 2024 | St. Bonaventure captured the Colonial Club Baseball Association playoff title Saturday, defeating the University of Rochester, 5-2, at Falcon Park in Auburn.

    Oct 31, 2024 | SBU Theater, the theater program at St. Bonaventure University, opens its season next week with the production of Amy Herzog’s “After the Revolution.” The curtain rises at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 6-9 at the university’s Garret Theater on campus. ​

    Oct 04, 2024 | St. Bonaventure’s nationally ranked women’s and men’s rugby teams square off with their counterparts from Walsh University Saturday at SBU’s Marra Athletics Fields Complex. The women, ranked No. 5 in the latest National Collegiate Rugby Division I poll, play No. 7 Walsh at 10 a.m. The 4th-ranked Bonaventure men play 6th-ranked Walsh at noon.

    Oct 03, 2024 | 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.

    Oct 03, 2024 | St. Bonaventure University will offer a Master of Social Work (MSW) program beginning in January.

    Sep 25, 2024 | Please join us for Francis Week 2024 as the university celebrates the life of St. Francis of Assisi with a focus on the theme “Sustainability: It’s complicated.” Events run through Saturday, Oct. 5.

    Sep 23, 2024 | The annual Special Olympics Polar Spray will kick off Family Weekend at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 27, in the parking lot between the Richter and Reilly centers.

    Sep 19, 2024 | Dr. Oleg Bychkov, professor of Theology and Franciscan Studies, published an article titled “The Late Medieval Debate about the Nature of Phenomenal Reality in Franciscan Theology and Islamic Thought and its Greek Sources” in the special edition of the journal Revista Española de Filosofía Medieval (The Spanish Journal of Medieval Philosophy), 31, no. 1 (2024): 167-99, dedicated to the topic “The Powers of the Soul in Medieval Franciscan Thought.”