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A commitment to building a more just world is central to the Siena College mission. To support that mission, students are getting behind the Fair Trade movement and making people think about what they’re buying.

On ABC’s critically-acclaimed reality show Shark Tank, a panel consisting of highly successful business people known as the “sharks,” listens to pitches from entrepreneurs who want help financing and developing their money-making ideas. The sharks ultimately decide if the products and businesses are worth their investment. Siena students with the entrepreneurial spirit recently participated in the College’s version of the show, a contest called Spark Tank.

A successful storyteller, Assistant Professor of English, Karin Lin-Greenberg, M.F.A., teaches creative writing courses in Siena’s English department. She sees links between her work in the classroom and the prose she produces.

Stephanie Richemond '03 was recently selected for the 2013 Educator of Excellence Award from the New York State English Council. The honor is given to an educator who inspires not only their students but other teachers as well.

Professor of Quantitative Business Analysis and Computer Science Jim Nolan ’75, Ph.D. and Professor of Computer Science Tim Lederman, Ph.D. led students in their First-Year Seminar classes on a journey to the Erie Canal to bring the region’s history to life.

Siena College Assistant Professor of Creative Arts Scott Nelson Foster was outside his comfort zone when he was commissioned to create a portrait of St. Kateri Tekakwitha for a Schenectady, New York parish named in her honor.

A sold-out crowd of 800 guests attended Siena’s 14th annual Festa Vino on October 17 in the Marcelle Athletic Complex. The fundraiser, which will benefit Siena’s Saints Alive! Athletic Fund and the McCormick Center for the Study of the American Revolution, brought in $75,000.

Esperandieu Cenat’s determination was amongst the few things left unharmed by the devastating earthquake that ravaged Haiti back in 2010. Cenat’s dream of returning hope to Haiti became a reality after he finished his education at Siena College. He is now both the founder and director of the St. Francis Xavier Haitian Orphanage.

Every two years, Siena College devotes a year-long seminar class to studying the works of a modern, living philosopher. As part of the Symposium on Living Philosophers, the featured philosopher visits campus once each semester to deliver a public lecture and interact with the students in the course. This year’s featured thinker is Judith Butler, Ph.D.

It was picture day at Siena College, but instead of posing for a yearbook portrait, some Siena students got dressed up and smiled for their professional headshots, pictures they’ll use on Linkedin and in their job searches.