Siena Research Institute

Siena Research Institute at Siena University (SRI) is an affiliated research institute at Siena University in Loudonville, New York, in suburban Albany. It was founded in 1980.

The institute conducts both expert and public opinion polls, focusing on New York State and the United States, on issues of public policy interest. They include education, health care, and consumer confidence, and explores business, economic, political, voter, social, educational, and historical issues. SRI conducted surveys on New Yorkers' sentiments towards the creation of the Cordoba House Mosque near the World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan, and the Arizona Immigration Law.

Among other things, starting in 1982, the institute has polled presidential scholars in an effort to rate the United States presidents, as well as the First Ladies. It has also conducted polls as to America's most notable women, television's most memorable moment, and consumer confidence.

Statistics and finance professor Doug Lonnstrom was the institute's founding director. Donald P. Levy is its current director.