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  • Siena College honors nursing grads with pin ceremony

    Siena College honors nursing grads with pin ceremony

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    LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) -Spring classes are finished at Siena College and 41 students have graduated as nurses. A pinning ceremony welcomed friends and family to celebrate their newest alumni. Siena says the pinning ceremony is a long-standing tradition of the nursing profession before it became part of the college curriculum.

    Siena College offers both an associate’s and bachelor’s degree in nursing to prepare its students to become medical professionals. One of the students who received a sash, rose, and pin to commemorate her hard work is Tracey Callan. She taught middle school history for nearly 20 years until she was laid off during the pandemic.

    Callan says she was inspired by nurses during the pandemic to become one herself. “I really thought of myself as being a lifelong teacher and that hasn’t changed necessarily with nursing. I still am able to educate others, still advocate for others. I’m still able to go into the world and help other people in many different ways.”

    The New York State Nurses Association describes the state as in a staffing crisis that is affecting hospitals and nursing homes. Its President, Nancy Hagans, said:

    “To address the nurse staffing crisis, New York needs a robust plan for nurse recruitment and retention, including loan forgiveness, funding CUNY and SUNY nursing programs, increasing instructor salaries, and encouraging more clinical training and mentorship programs in hospitals. There must also be a focus on improving safety and working conditions in New York’s hospitals to ensure nurse retention and safe, quality care for all New Yorkers.”

    Siena sees some of these problems in its own program.

    “It’s challenging to get into nursing programs and some of that is due to the lack of available seats in programs. Part of that is due to two things: One, the number of faculty to educate those students, but also, where we can do the clinical training,” described Jennifer Thate, Associate Professor of Nursing and Department Chair.

    Freshman nursing classes at Siena start with around 70 students. At Fulton-Montgomery Community College, up to 50 students in a class work towards being associates of applied science in RN preparation. After passing a licensing exam, FMCC’s Director of Nursing, Eileen Casey, says its graduates also have a competitive edge in the job market.

    “We have 100% placement within six months last year and even so far this year. Competitive salaries and competitive sign-on bonuses, absolutely. It’s a new world.”

    As Callan enters this new world, she hopes others also feel inspired to reinvent themselves. “I absolutely would encourage to go back to school. It’s not easy, but it’s absolutely rewarding and I think we have to normalize that a little bit more. To say it’s a great thing to do.”

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  • Siena to host 23rd annual ‘Pink Zone’ game

    Siena to host 23rd annual ‘Pink Zone’ game

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    LOUDONVILLE, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Siena women’s basketball is hosting its 23rd annual breast cancer awareness “Pink Zone” game on February 1 at 7 p.m. Presented by Albany Medical Health Systems (AMHS), the event will benefit The Donna Foundation.

    Before the basketball game will be an in-person recognition of breast cancer survivors and there will be a recognition of local doctors from AMHS at halftime. The team will hold a fundraiser to raise money for breast cancer support and awareness. Supporters can donate online or at the game in support of The Donna Foundation.

    Anyone who knows someone who is currently battling breast cancer or is a breast cancer survivor and would like them to be recognized can reach out to Morgan Roche, Siena Women’s Basketball director of operations, at mroche@siena.edu. These requests must be submitted by Monday.

    Pink Zone t-shirts will be sold at the game for a cash-only price of $10 with proceeds going to the foundation. There will also be a 50/50 raffle for the foundation and a raffle for a jewelry item provided by Hannoush Jewelers.

    People are encouraged to wear pink to the game to represent breast cancer awareness’s signature color. Tickets can be purchased online at $10 for a chairback seat, $8 for general admission for adults, and $5 for children 12 and under.

    The Donna Foundation, established in 2003, provides economic assistance and emotional support to people living with breast cancer and funds breast cancer research. The foundation has served 17,494 families to date.

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  • Discovery Of Bronzes Rewrite Italy’s Etruscan-Roman History

    Discovery Of Bronzes Rewrite Italy’s Etruscan-Roman History

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    ROME (AP) — Italian authorities on Tuesday announced the extraordinary discovery of 2,000-year-old bronze statues in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring and said the find will “rewrite history” about the transition from the Etruscan civilization to the Roman Empire.

    The discovery, in the sacred baths of the San Casciano dei Bagni archaeological dig near Siena, is one of the most significant ever in the Mediterranean and certainly the most important since the 1972 underwater discovery of the famed Riace bronze warriors, said Massimo Osanna, the Culture Ministry’s director of museums.

    Thanks to the mud that protected them, the two-dozen figurines and other bronze objects were found in a perfect state of conservation, bearing delicate facial features, inscriptions and rippled tunics. Alongside the figures were 5,000 coins in gold, silver and bronze, the ministry said.

    As evidence of the importance of the find, the ministry announced the construction of a new museum in the area to house the antiquities.

    A statue is seen at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy. (Italian Culture Ministry via AP)

    Jacopo Tabolli, who coordinated the dig for the University for Foreigners in Siena, said the discovery was significant because it sheds new light on the end of the Etruscan civilization and the expansion of the Roman Empire in today’s central Italy between the 2nd and 1st centuries B.C.

    The period was marked by wars and conflicts across what is today’s Tuscany, Umbria and Lazio regions, and yet, the bronze statues show evidence that Etruscan and Roman families prayed together to deities in the sacred sanctuary of the thermal springs. The statues, including depictions of Apollo and Igea, the ancient Greek god and goddess of health, bear both Etruscan and Latin inscriptions.

    Archaeologists work at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy. (Italian Culture Ministry via AP)
    Archaeologists work at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy. (Italian Culture Ministry via AP)

    “While there were social and civil wars being fought outside the sanctuary … inside the sanctuary the great elite Etruscan and Roman families prayed together in a context of peace surrounded by conflict,” Tabolli said. “This possibility to rewrite the relationship and dialectic between the Etruscan and Romans is an exceptional opportunity.”

    Some of the two dozen bronzes are entire human-like figures of deities, while others are of individual body parts and organs which would have been offered up as votive offerings to the gods for intervention for medical cures via the thermal waters, the ministry said in a statement.

    A statue is seen at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy. (Italian Culture Ministry via AP)
    A statue is seen at the site of the discovery of two dozen well-preserved bronze statues from an ancient Tuscan thermal spring in San Casciano dei Bagni, central Italy. (Italian Culture Ministry via AP)

    The discovery comes 50 years after the Riace bronze warriors were found by a recreational diver in the waters off southern Calabria and went onto become one of Italy’s most spectacular archaeological finds. The 5th century bronzes, currently on display at the national archaeological museum in Reggio Calabria, feature two naked life-sized and life-like Greek warriors, with rippled muscles and intricate, curly beards.

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