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Thirty local organizations visited campus this week for the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy’s Volunteer Service Fair. The annual event’s goal is to inform Siena students about local organizations where they can pursue opportunities for volunteering, internships and possibly employment.

To further connect students with the College’s Franciscan identity, at the beginning of every school year, students can sign up to have their rooms blessed by their Friar-in-Residence.

As darkness fell on Siena’s academic quad yesterday evening, members of the college’s Republican Club quietly set to work on an annual tribute to those who lost their lives twelve years ago on September 11, 2001.

As the fall semester begins and students meet professors and scan syllabi, two students in Siena’s School of Science are already knee-deep in research.

Along with student-engagement through scholarly activity, Siena College provides its students with opportunities for personal development through peer interaction and community service.

The opening of Siena’s newest building, Richard and Joan Rosetti Hall, gives the College’s departments of education, social work and sociology a new home and new teaching tools.

With garden sheers in hand and a foam pad beneath their knees, the Townhouse RA staff members spruced up the St. Francis Garden on the grounds of the Mohawk & Hudson River Humane Society in Menands, N.Y.

On August 3, Lindsay McTague ’13 was sitting in her apartment at Duke University where she is pursuing doctoral studies in electrical engineering on a full scholarship. She was riveted to the images of a rocket shooting into space from a launching pad in Japan. She had a personal stake in the success of that launch: an instrument she helped to construct was on board.

This year, Siena College welcomes 768 first-year students, including 700 who will live on campus, and 125 transfer students.

Jodi O’Donnell, Ph.D., associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry, and Lucas Tucker, Ph.D. assistant professor of chemistry and biochemistry, have received a Multi-Investigator Cottrell College Science Award from one of America’s oldest foundations, the Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA).