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Seniors added another skill to their rounded Siena educations, or in this case, another topping to their pizzas when they attended a cooking class hosted by DeFazio’s Pizzeria owner and chef Rocco DeFazio ’75 and his daughter Elizabeth ’13 Saturday afternoon.

It’s not uncommon to see familiar faces everywhere on Siena College’s small, tight-knit campus. It would be strange to go somewhere and not smile and wave to a friend or faculty member along the way. With the “Siena Family Photos” project, this community feel was taken one step further. Everyone at Siena College became family.

Siena College’s Creative Arts Department and student theatre program Stage III present “Copenhagen.” The play is by Michael Frayn and directed by Visiting Professor of Creative Arts David Lane. It will run on the College’s main stage in Foy Hall March 26-29 at 8 p.m. and March 29-30 at 2 p.m.

Siena College is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its DORS initiative. The acronym stands for Diversity, Optimism, Respect and Service – Franciscan values that are in action on campus every day.

If a business owner has a problem, he or she would traditionally turn to a team of professionals who can offer viable solutions. Now, those business owners might turn to Siena College students.

Siena College’s Symposium on Living Philosophers continues on Monday, March 31 at 5 p.m. as this year’s featured philosopher Judith Butler, Ph.D. delivers a free, public lecture titled "Vulnerability and Resistance" inside Siena’s Sarazen Student Union.

Non-profit professionals, faculty, students, K-12 administrators and community members converged inside Siena College’s Sarazen Student Union earlier this month for “Community Forum 2.0: Youth as an Untapped Resource.”

When it comes to working with first-year students, Siena College Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, Peter Ellard, Ph.D. is at the head of the class. One of Ellard’s many responsibilities is to help first-year students make the successful transition into college.

Siena College Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies Kate Meierdiercks, Ph.D. recently received a research grant from the New York State Water Resources Institute and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Hudson River Estuary Program to study the effectiveness of storm water management in New York State.

We’ve all heard the old adage, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day.” But on Wednesdays at Siena College, that distinction is reserved solely for lunch at Roots Café.