Department News Archive

Professor Justin Behrend Publishes Article on the Local History of Abolitionism

History News Professor of history Justin Behrend published “Abolitionism and the Struggle Against Slavery in Livingston County” in the Fall 2025 issue of the Livingston County Historical Review. This article explores the creation of the Livingston County Anti-Slavery Society in 1837. It was a reform group of more than one hundred residents who were committed to ending

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Education Professor Receives Second-Year Funding from the Library ofCongress

Dr. James Oigara, assistant professor of education, has secured a second-year fundingrenewal for the SUNY Geneseo Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources(TPS) grant project, reaffirming the program’s success and impact. This three-yearinitiative empowers both pre-service and in-service teachers to bring history and socialstudies to life by integrating primary sources from the Library of Congress

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James Oigara Leads Workshop for Teaching with Primary Sources

James Oigara (SUNY Geneseo/Matt Burkhartt) James Oigara, assistant professor in Geneseo’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education, recently led a teacher workshop on Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS), sponsored by the SUNY Geneseo Library of Congress TPS grant project. The workshop supported educators in integrating primary sources into classroom and inquiry-based learning assignments that enhance student engagement and

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Geneseo Alum Alex Chin ’17 Earns Prestigious APS 2026 GCCM Award

SUNY Geneseo alum and LLE assistant scientist Alex Chin ’17 (Image courtesy of University of Rochester/LLE) Physics and Astronomy News Alumni Relations News The department of physics and astronomy at SUNY Geneseo congratulates Alex Chin ’17 on receiving the 2026 GCCM National Award from the American Physical Society (APS) for exceptional dissertation research. Chin, who is an assistant

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Massive 3,000-year-old Maya site in Mexico depicts the cosmos and the ‘order of the universe,’ study claims

Photo of Drew O’Neil from 2019 Lamron Article “Student researchers analyze local cemetery records, historical implications” Anthropology News Professor James Aimers was quoted in a Live Science article about new research that suggests a 3,000-year-old Maya site in southeastern Mexico is actually a giant cosmogram, depicting how ancient people at the site viewed the order of the universe.

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Barsema Earns Constructive Dialogue Facilitator Certification

Krissie Barsema Student Life News In the 2025 State of the University Address Chancellor King said, “It is all too easy to fall for divisive rhetoric, or to believe we’re so hopelessly fractured that civil discourse isn’t worth trying. But I think this is one of the highest callings of public higher education: that it

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Education Faculty Member Publishes STEM Curriculum Guide for Elementary Teachers

School of Education News Dr. Peter Kalenda, Assistant Professor in the Ella Cline Shear School of Education at SUNY Geneseo, has published a curriculum guide through Knight Scholar that transforms the popular Picture-Perfect STEM book series into an accessible Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)-aligned resource for elementary educators. The “Picture Perfect STEM: NGSS Science Standards Alignment Guide”

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Book Talk w/ Dr. Jovana Babovic, Assoc. Prof. of History – The Youngest Yugoslavs

History News Friday, October 24, 2025 at 4pm – 6:30 pm Welles Hall – Room 123 Come hear Dr. Babović talk about the process of researching and writing her latest book! The Youngest Yugoslavs is an oral history collection that gives readers perspectives on why Yugoslavia continues to resonate among its former citizens more than

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Jennifer Waddington Earns Award from Arc Glow

(SUNY Geneseo) School of Education News Jennifer Waddington, lecturer in SUNY Geneseo’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education, has been selected as a Friend of the Year by Arc GLOW, a chapter of The Arc New York. According to Arc GLOW, Waddington is being recognized for her “outstanding support and the meaningful friendship she has

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Sweet Math with 10 Gulab Jamuns

School of Education News At SUNY Geneseo’s School of Education, Dr. Peter Kalenda is bringing math to life through stories. This semester, 28 teacher candidates are using 10 Gulab Jamuns by Sandhya Acharya as a playful entry point to teaching addition with regrouping to first- and second-grade students. Thanks to support from the NEA’s Learning and Leadership Grant,

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