It starts with real money—close to $700,000, provided to Geneseo’s Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) by The Geneseo Foundation. Teams of SMIF students then spend the year researching stocks, making pitches, investing money, and learning the perils and profits of investment funds.
Julia Grunes ’23, an English (creative writing) and psychology double major from Monroe, NY, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright award to Israel. She will spend the year as an English Teaching Assistant in Netanya, a Mediterranean resort city in central Israel.
SUNY Geneseo is designated a “Voter Friendly Campus” for 2023–24 through a program sponsored by NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project.
Cora Woloson ’23, from Canandaigua, NY, has won a highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship award to study Hindi during Summer 2023 in Jaipur, India, at the American Institute of Indian Studies. Woloson is an international relations major with a minor in political science and a concentration in the developing world.
SUNY Geneseo alum Molly Smith Metzler ’00, MA, MFA, will receive an honorary degree at this year’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday afternoon, May 20.
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr., EdD, will address SUNY Geneseo’s undergraduate Commencement ceremonies this year on Saturday, May 20.
SUNY Geneseo recently invited students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, prompted by their recent election by faculty members of the college’s chapter.
McNair Scholar Muwafaq "Moe" Ibrahim '25, a neuroscience major from Rochester, NY, has won a scholarship for the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine Experience in Research during Summer 2023. Sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, the program is an eight-week residential research, education, and mentoring experience in laboratory or clinical research.
Gina Wittek ’22 has been the interim coordinator for Fraternal Life and Off-Campus Services in SUNYGeneseo’s Office of Fraternal Life since this summer 2022. The coordinator provides resources to students involved with or interested in Greek life and those who are looking to move off-campus.
SUNY Geneseo will offer several new Living-Learning Communities for Fall 2023. The LLCs connect housing and academics into intentional communities that align with student interests and help them develop a sense of belonging.