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Siena College moved closer to reaching its $300,000 endowment goal for the Jurist-in-Residence (JIR) Program last Friday at its 10th annual Capital Region Lawyers’ Reception at Siena Hall’s Girvin & Ferlazzo Moot Courtroom. The current endowment now stands at nearly $250,000.

Paul Murray, Ph.D. is committed to ensuring that the Civil Rights Movement isn’t relegated to only history classrooms and conversations about the past. The Siena College Professor of Sociology wants to make sure people consider the relevance of the Movement’s issues in today’s society and he’s using film to facilitate discussions about it.

Since being elected pope last March, Jorge Maria Bergoglio, now known the world over as Francis, has been making people reconsider their perceptions of the leader of the Catholic Church.

Claire Frank ’13 and Madeline Campbell ’13 took their bachelor’s degrees and the experience they gained while at Siena College across the Atlantic Ocean to teach in Spain.

Siena College Associate Professor of English, Lisa Nevarez, Ph.D., is the editor of a collection of essays on teaching the figure of the vampire, titled "The Vampire Goes to College: Essays on Teaching with the Undead" and published by McFarland Press.

Students in Siena College’s Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) joined more than 800 other college students and administrators at the New York State Capitol in Albany earlier this month to advocate for student aid.

Assistant Professor of Physics John Moustakas, Ph.D., is part of a 10-person team of astronomers who are searching for the first galaxies to form in our 14-billion-year-old universe. The team is making use of data from the Hubble Space Telescope, a space-based observatory that is capable of capturing incredibly sharp images of distant galaxies.

There wasn’t an empty seat in the Marcelle Athletic Complex as students filed in to see who would be crowned the 2014 “Mr. Siena.” This was the competition’s ninth year and most successful show to date. The mock beauty pageant is held annually to raise money and awareness for Siena College’s chapter of Habitat for Humanity, a global nonprofit organization that builds and repairs houses using volunteer labor and donations.

Siena’s commitment to the local community was celebrated recently by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany Catholic Schools who recognized the College with its Community Partner Award. The award is given to a community partner that demonstrates commitment to Catholic school education.