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Before hitting it big in corporate America, Kate Gutmann ’90 was hitting the books at Siena College. The former Marketing Management major credits Siena’s business program for her success.

Siena College celebrated its Franciscan Tradition by honoring Saint Francis of Assisi, the friar who launched the order more than 800 years ago, with academic, spiritual and community-focused programming surrounding Francis’ Feast Day, October 4.

The battle against blood cancer came to Siena as the College hosted the Upstate New York /Vermont Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) annual Light The Night Walk. More than 1,200 walkers and 1,000 fundraising participants gathered on the College’s academic quad to honor people impacted by leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. The event raised more than $180,000.

The Siena College Chorus can now be heard singing around the world after part of their spring concert was featured on the respected musical website www.adventuresinmusic.biz.

Siena College hosted its annual September Blood Drive and collected a record breaking 249 units of blood.

Acting Ethically in the Economic Marketplace was the topic Siena President Fr. Kevin Mullen ’75, O.F.M., Ph.D. addressed as the keynote speaker at the inaugural Francis-can Focus Event on campus on Friday, Sept. 21. In celebration of the College’s 75th Anniversary, Fr. Russel Murray, O.F.M., director of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy, organized the event in order to engage the Siena community in academic discussion outside of the classroom.

Law Professor and former Wall Street Journal Supreme Court Correspondent Stephen Wermiel, Esq., delivered his Constitution Day address to a capacitycrowd inside Siena College’s Sarazen Student Union earlier this month. Wermiel’s speech was titled “Reforming the Supreme Court: The Seventy-Five Year Journey from Court Packing to Today’s Proposals.”

Siena College’s academic quad was filled with smoke during the annual Campus Safety day as the college sponsored several fire-safety drills, including hands-on fire extinguisher training and displays by the Shaker Road Loudonville Fire Department and the New York State Office of Fire Prevention and Control.The main event of the day was a live fire of a mock residence hall room. It showed students how quickly one of their rooms can go up in flames.

Siena College and the Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) announced a new universal access transportation partnership to provide CDTA service for Siena College students.

Since moving in, members of the Class of 2016 have hit the ground running. First-year students said that college has been different, but in a good way.