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Siena President Chris Gibson ’86 joined the leaders of Russell Sage College, Hudson Valley Community College and Excelsior College to explore key issues in higher education at a June 23 Rensselaer County Regional Chamber of Commerce luncheon.

For the first time in school history, Siena captured the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Women's Commissioner's Cup.

Mr. and Mrs. Ghobriel knew their son would make a great doctor or lawyer. George Ghobriel '21 (above, middle) disappointed them when he passed on both professions. Instead, his parents had unwittingly inspired a completely different career path.

We all know real life is different from what it looks like on Facebook or Twitter. But, when it comes to colleges and social media, you can gain a great deal of insight about an institution—and what it might be like to be a student there—by spending some time clicking through their social media accounts.

Take your list of top schools and see what platforms they have accounts on, then log on and consider these seven things a college’s social media can tell you:

Nanea Perkins ’22 is building the foundation for a career that will help protect the natural beauty of her home state of Hawai’i.

Tyler Simmons ’21, a philosophy major from Harlem, is this year’s recipient of the Lonnstrom Higher Education Opportunity Program Excellence Award.

On June 18, 2019, Siena Fresh Executive Chef Joshua Miller took Rachel Jones, senior director of dining services, on a lunch date to The Sagamore in Lake George. After lunch, they walked around the back of the resort and out toward the water. Miller got down on one knee....

If Lily Belber '21 is being completely honest, she didn't always give her undivided attention during lectures this spring. To her credit, she rarely missed a class over Zoom, but she was more than occasionally multi-tasking...

Plug Power develops hydrogen fuel cell systems that replace conventional batteries. Of the 30 interns, 29 are engineers. Wager is in the human resources department.

Most students and faculty are eager to get back to in-person classroom and lab work now that colleges are opening up post-pandemic. However, let’s not throw the pedagogical baby out with the bathwater. Some of the technology that was used to teach remotely will still prove very useful going forward even when we’re all back on campus.