St. Bonaventure University is a private, Franciscan Catholic university, located near Olean, New York. It has roughly 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students. Located in Cattaraugus County in western New York, the university was established by the Franciscan Brothers in 1858. Its current presidente is Sister Margaret Carney OSF STD, the 20th president and the first religious sister to hold the position full time. In athletics, the St. Bonaventure Bonnies play NCAA Division I sports in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Students and alumni often refer to the university as Bona's, derived from the school's original name, St. Bonaventure's College. The college became a university in 1950. The college was founded by Utica financier Nicholas Devereux, one of the first to gain land grants in newly surveyed Cattaraugus County from the Holland Land Company. Devereux founded the town of Allegany on the grant, hoping to build a new city. He believed the city would need religious instruction, so Devereux approached John Timon, the bishop of Buffalo, for assistance. The two invited the Franciscan order to Western New York, and a small group under Father Pamfilo da Magliano OFM arrived in 1856.