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If the weather is clear, you can see almost all of London from the top of the London Eye observation wheel. Alyssa Guzman '21 (above, right) couldn't have known it at the time, but she could see all the way to her future.

Additional funding received through VISTA AmeriCorps has led to an enhanced partnership between Siena and the United Way of the Greater Capital Region.

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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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.

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.

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

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.