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Rose Wilson ’21 liked her First Year Seminar professor so much that when she saw an elective she was offering during Wilson’s last semester at Siena, she jumped at the chance to take it even though it wasn’t related to her major. Her class project led to an interesting discovery about her family.

As you can probably imagine, you're in for a lot of late nights at college. Hanging out with your friends, staying in to write a paper, studying with your roommates for tomorrow's test—you'll be doing a lot of all that.

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They won championships and set records as Siena student athletes, but in a conversation with students and staff on May 10, the decorated athletes weren't talking about titles and statistics.

Alexis Lott '21 spends most of her internship surfing social media. Actually, that's what she's been trained to do.

It’s a “box of wonder,” and anyone from the Siena community can take from it or give to it. The Mindful Nest is a new creative and conceptual space located just off the Chaplain’s Patio near the Chapel. If you’ve seen Little Free Libraries in your community where people can take and leave a book, the concept is similar, but Siena’s Mindful Nest has the potential to grow into something much more.

Abby Devaney '21 was accepted to the highly competitive, very prestigious TAPIF (Teaching Assistant Program in France). She'll spend seven months in France teaching and hiking.

The second in a series of bipartisan Congressional panel discussions on racial justice and police reform was held May 6 - one of the first campus events to have an in-person component since the start of the pandemic. President Chris Gibson ’86, Ph.D. moderated U.S. Rep. Antonio Delgado (D-NY-19) and U.S. Rep. John Katko (R-NY-24), who discussed the two major legislative proposals for policing reform.

It's good to have options. Isis Young G '22 had three: announce college basketball games for ESPN, fulfill her dream of playing professionally, or do something completely unprecedented in the history of the NCAA.

Juneteenth celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. It marks the day – two and a half years after the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation – that slaves in Texas at long last received news of their freedom via General Order No. 3. To observe this holiday and to further the College’s commitment to strengthening the bonds of racial justice, Siena hosted its first-ever Juneteenth celebration on May 5.