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Siena has selected its first energy-saving – and cost-saving – project that will be paid for by proceeds from the College’s new Green Revolving Fund (GRF). A retrofit using energy-efficient light-emitting diode (LED) fixtures in 30 outside campus locations will begin later this summer.

A faculty-student collaboration researching the role of Congress in national security has resulted in a new book. Leonard Cutler, Ph.D., professor of political science, recently published President Trump’s National Security Strategy Non-Doctrine: An Assessment. He was assisted in his research by Nicholas Discala ’22, who worked as a CURCA scholar with Cutler for several years.

Shannon Draucker, Ph.D. has just received a highly competitive National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant to revise her research on the subject. Draucker, assistant professor of English, was awarded $6,000 from the NEH and will work this summer to revise and reframe her doctoral dissertation into a book about how 19th century understandings of musical science shaped representations of gender and sexuality in Victorian British literature.

Talaya Wilkins ’07, vice president for content strategy at Madison Square Garden, returned to her alma mater on April 29 to give the keynote address at the annual Ted R. Winnowski '63 Student Conference in Business.

Siena celebrated the most recent graduates last weekend and welcomed them into the Class of 2022.

A few days before a draft decision on Roe v. Wade was leaked from U.S. Supreme Court, setting off a national firestorm of controversy and criticism, Siena hosted a panel discussion on the highest court in the land, and to what extent it has become politically polarized during its 2021-22 term.

Eight Siena students attended the April meeting of the American Physical Society (APS), held April 9 – 12 in New York. The meeting’s theme, “Quarks to Cosmos,” encompassed a broad range of research areas in physics: astrophysics, particle physics, nuclear physics, and gravitation, as well as topics on education, and issues of diversity and equity in the field. More than 1,500 attendees took part.