The night of Feb. 23 felt like a moment of rebirth for DeJuan Clayton. With the Manhattan College Jaspers trailing Marist by seven points, Clayton checked in for his season debut against all odds. Right then, he became the first D1 men’s basketball player to play in eight different seasons. more

The dean of Manhattan College’s O’Malley School of Business has announced he is stepping down at the end of the spring semester. more

Laura Levine-Pinedo, founder of 4Bronx Project, has joined up with Latinos Urbanos to install a free community library at P.S. 207 on Godwin Terrace. Levine-Pinedo said she is providing the library with Latinos Urbanos and Dr. Nick Figueroa, who was awarded recognition and an award from superstar hip hop singer Bad Bunny. The community library will be available Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. outside the school. Members of 4Bronx Project and Latinos Urbanos cut the ribbon on the library on Feb. 15. more

Matthew Greenspun, a Bronx High School of Science senior, was honored in the Congressional App Challenge last week for his work on the creation of a tutoring app for his school. more

Lehman College’s Bronx Business Tech Incubator celebrated its facilities reopening this past Thursday after the pandemic shut things down 3 years ago. more

Though Manhattan College President Milo Riverso has not previously shared hard data on the financial rationale for firings and other changes at the college, he did so in detail in an email addressed to faculty and staff on Monday. The message acknowledged how difficult recent changes have been for him, the board of trustees and the faculty and staff. more

Roughly 200 people gathered in the cold on Feb. 1 to celebrate the grand opening of Lehman College’s $95 million Nursing Education, Research and Practice Center. more

One neighbor with a lot of determination is standing between the city’s School Construction Authority and a bulldozer at the site of the demolished Visitation Church where it wants to build a school. more

It’s hard to find positives when you lose 12 of 13 games. It’s even tougher when the driving force behind the struggles is live ball turnovers, which for John Gallagher’s Manhattan Jaspers has inflated to 95 total turnovers in a six-game stretch. In Sunday’s 77-68 loss to Fairfield University, Manhattan coughed up 17 more. more