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On October 11, a sold-out crowd of more than 800 people enjoyed food and wine samplings from 20 local restaurants and more than 100 wines from around the globe at the 13th annual Festa Vino, held in the Marcelle Athletic Complex.

The Maloney Great Room was buzzing with activity during Siena College’s inaugural Summer Research Symposium sponsored by the Center for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activity. Students from the College’s schools of business, liberal arts and science, as well as the Siena College Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Office of Academic Community Engagement presented their work to the community.

Before hitting it big in corporate America, Kate Gutmann ’90 was hitting the books at Siena College. The former Marketing Management major credits Siena’s business program for her success.

During the College’s Family Weekend festivities, students took advantage of a chance to bring their pets to school for the annual Blessing of the Animals.

Siena College celebrated its Franciscan Tradition by honoring Saint Francis of Assisi, the friar who launched the order more than 800 years ago, with academic, spiritual and community-focused programming surrounding Francis’ Feast Day, October 4.

The battle against blood cancer came to Siena as the College hosted the Upstate New York /Vermont Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) annual Light The Night Walk. More than 1,200 walkers and 1,000 fundraising participants gathered on the College’s academic quad to honor people impacted by leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma. The event raised more than $180,000.

The Siena College Chorus can now be heard singing around the world after part of their spring concert was featured on the respected musical website www.adventuresinmusic.biz.

Siena College hosted its annual September Blood Drive and collected a record breaking 249 units of blood.

Law Professor and former Wall Street Journal Supreme Court Correspondent Stephen Wermiel, Esq., delivered his Constitution Day address to a capacitycrowd inside Siena College’s Sarazen Student Union earlier this month. Wermiel’s speech was titled “Reforming the Supreme Court: The Seventy-Five Year Journey from Court Packing to Today’s Proposals.”

Acting Ethically in the Economic Marketplace was the topic Siena President Fr. Kevin Mullen ’75, O.F.M., Ph.D. addressed as the keynote speaker at the inaugural Francis-can Focus Event on campus on Friday, Sept. 21. In celebration of the College’s 75th Anniversary, Fr. Russel Murray, O.F.M., director of the Franciscan Center for Service and Advocacy, organized the event in order to engage the Siena community in academic discussion outside of the classroom.