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Opening Mass 'ignites the light' for St. Bonaventure community

Jun 22, 2026 |

BonaResponds to host on-campus service day

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University’s volunteer-run disaster relief group, BonaResponds, is planning its first blanket making and collection day on Saturday, Sept. 29. The event will take place in the San Damiano Room located in Francis Hall

University Ministries offers traditional brain blessing before final exams

Jun 22, 2026 | By the time final exams roll around, students and faculty members are overwhelmed with stress. The University Ministries team at St. Bonaventure hopes to ease the nerves of everyone by offering the traditional Blessing of the Brains.

#GivingTuesdayatBonas to support student-led service programs

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Center for Social Concern (FCSC) is hosting a one-day fundraising event on Nov. 27, a day known as #GivingTuesdayatBonas.

It’s tax time: Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program opens Jan. 26 at United Way Office

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University accounting students will be opening their Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) office on Jan. 26 for the 12th year of offering free tax services for qualifying taxpayers. To see if you qualify and to make an appointment, call (716) 373-2534.

World Views class exposes students to Seneca culture

Jun 22, 2026 | Textbooks, PowerPoints, lectures and heavy reading for homework — the staples of many college classes. But for St. Bonaventure University students in a special section of World Views, their classroom essentials balanced on a different set of staples — ones provided mainly from a community outside the Bonaventure Bubble.

Eight St. Bonaventure alums honored by Buffalo's Business First

Jun 22, 2026 | Eight alumni from St. Bonaventure University will be honored at a Nov 9. luncheon at the Buffalo Niagara Convention Center for making Business First’s list of 40 rising business leaders under the age of 40.

For Brian Donahue, there is no 'off season'

Jun 22, 2026 | As part of a young team of executives overseeing the business operations of the $5.5 billion Community Bank, N.A., Brian D. Donahue, ’79, puts his blue collar work philosophy and matching can-do attitude into high gear every day.

All Bonaventure Reads author Marc Lamont Hill to discuss his book ‘Nobody’ in campus address

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will welcome scholar and journalist Dr. Marc Lamont Hill to campus Monday, Sept. 25, to give the 2017 All Bonaventure Reads keynote address.

Seraph Brass to perform Nov. 9 at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts

Jun 22, 2026 | Seraph Brass, a dynamic quintet that draws from a roster of America’s top female brass players, will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9, at St. Bonaventure University’s Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

St. Bonaventure to host workshop on Applying Positive Psychology in Professional Practice

Jun 22, 2026 | Professionals interested in increasing the happiness of their clients are invited to an introductory workshop on Applying Positive Psychology in Professional Practice to be held at St. Bonaventure University.

University President Sr. Margaret Carney to be honored with Lifetime Achievement Award

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University President Sr. Margaret Carney, O.S.F., is being recognized for her professional success and community involvement as the 2014 recipient of Buffalo Business First’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Salluzzo, Fr. Tracy, Judge Marks to be honored with
St. Bonaventure Gaudete Medals for service

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will honor three individuals for their selfless contributions to the Rochester community at its Gaudete Medals ceremony on Thursday, April 24, at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center.

Muslim-American scholar to speak at Spirit of Assisi service

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will welcome Dr. Khalid J. Qazi, clinical professor of medicine at the University at Buffalo, as its guest speaker for an interfaith prayer service at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30, in the University Chapel.

St. Bonaventure professor authors book on Civil War’s 'biggest battle that never happened'

Jun 22, 2026 | In the early summer of 1864, Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee squared off in some of the bloodiest battles of the American Civil War.

Two #Bonas professors honored by their peers with professional excellence awards

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University faculty members honored two of their colleagues with awards of excellence at Sunday’s annual Commencement Exercises.

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Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University’s management department and the Family Business Club will host a talk Tuesday titled “Nice guys and gals finish last: How ‘dark’ personality traits can help people rise through ranks.”

#Bona's School of Business to launch Foster Center for Responsible Leadership with Nov. 17 talk

Jun 22, 2026 | St. Bonaventure University will launch The William C. Foster ’62 Center for Responsible Leadership on Thursday, Nov. 17, with guest speaker Alfonzo Alexander, chief relationship officer of the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) and president of NASBA’s Center for the Public Trust (CPT).

Quick Center exhibition at St. Bonaventure focuses on ancient and modern symbols as ‘Figures of Speech’

Jun 22, 2026 | "Figures of Speech," a new exhibition featuring items from the University Art Collection at St. Bonaventure University, is on view now at the university's Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts.

‘Writer for USA Today College’ just one of many achievements for #Bonas journalism major

Jun 22, 2026 | Hannah Gordon has a résumé that would be the envy of any seasoned professional peddling herself in the job market today.

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