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Siena has received approval from the New York State Education Department for its newest academic program: criminal justice studies. Students can enroll in the interdisciplinary program effective immediately. A bachelor of arts and a minor will be offered.

“We are the good people are looking for.” That was the inspirational nugget of gold in the “anti-keynote” address at Engage for Change (E4C), a regional conference held on campus May 26 that brought together local community engagement practitioners to share best practices and methods for advancing their transformative work.

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Are your summers defined by the awesome concerts you attend, ice cream cones you consume and the number of personal records you break on your 5K time? Whatever you love to do in the summertime, you'll find it all here in the Capital Region

Olivia Stallworth '24 was chosen from more than 10,000 applicants to participate in this summer's Goldman Sachs Virtual Insight Series. Perhaps the experience will inspire her next shirt.

Siena's nursing students spend one week immersed in a rural Jamaican community. Specifically, the students are working with Franciscan friars to provide health promotion education in the area and develop a new medical clinic.

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.

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.

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.

Later today, Br. Tito Serrano, O.F.M., associate campus minister, and Fr. Casey Cole, O.F.M., will catch a baseball game in Miami, and then on July 30, they'll be in Colorado for a Rockies game. During the two months in between, they'll attend a game at every single Major League Baseball park. The Bleacher Brothers extreme summer road trip isn't just about baseball. To borrow a phrase from another set of brothers in sunglasses, "We're on a mission from God."