News

As white smoke billowed out of the chimney at the Sistine Chapel on May 8, the Siena community prepared to join the world in welcoming a new Pope.

Teacher Appreciation Week | May 5–9, 2025. Behind every student who believes in themselves is a teacher who believed in them first. This week, we take time to say thank you. To the teachers who show up early, stay late, and bring their full hearts into the classroom. To the ones who create safe spaces for students to learn, ask questions, and be themselves. To the educators who change lives, humbly, consistently, and profoundly.

From May 6 to May 12, we celebrate National Nurses Week—a time to honor the compassion, expertise, and strength of the nurses who care for us in every setting imaginable. Whether on hospital floors, in schools, senior living communities, or local clinics, nurses are often the first to arrive and the last to leave. They are listeners, advocates, healers, and educators. And above all, they are essential.

If you are reading this, it likely means you have made one of the biggest decisions of your life so far: choosing where you will go to college. Take a moment to recognize everything you did to get here. You spent months researching schools, completing applications, writing essays, visiting campuses, and weighing your options. You met the May 1 College Decision Day deadline — and that is something to be proud of. Now that you have officially committed to your college, you might be wondering: what happens next? Here is what you can expect and how you can set yourself up for success in the coming months.

If you are a senior in high school, you probably have May 1 marked on your calendar. Known nationally as College Decision Day, it is the date by which most colleges require you to officially confirm your enrollment. Some students know exactly where they are headed. Others are still weighing their options. Some are waiting on final financial aid packages or updates from waitlists. No matter where you are in the process, you are not behind, and you are not alone. This is an important decision, and it is normal to need time to make it carefully. Here is what you need to know as the May 1 deadline approaches.

The writer, critic, professor and editor Rebecca Morgan Frank visited campus in April as part of the College’s Greyfriar Living Literature Series.

No one questioned the merit of the idea; it was just too ambitious and unreasonable. Carsyn Ide '27 wanted to organize a fundraising run, from scratch, in two months. "Let's try for next year," she was told. Ide politely pushed back. The unreasonable doesn't faze her.

As a muggle (someone with no magical ability or connection to the wizarding world), Bella Ferragine '26 never could have studied at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardy. Or so she assumed...

The college hockey season is over... almost. Eight Saints have been chosen to represent the Super East Collegiate Hockey League (SECHL) in this weekend's American Collegiate Hockey Association (ACHA) Division 2 All-Star Challenge.

Most current Siena students were not even born at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The events of that fateful 2001 day are now a small entry in social studies textbooks, but Gordon Huie wants to make sure young people know exactly what it was like near Ground Zero.