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The annual meetings of the American Philosophical Association are the “flagship” conferences for the profession. Faculty and graduate students seek highly prized spots on the program and look forward to networking with their peers and mentors. It’s exceedingly rare to see any undergraduates at the conferences, and even rarer to encounter any who are presenting.
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Justin Behrend (right), professor of history and graduate program director, works with students in the archives. (Photo Provided) “A wonderful community of learning.” This description of the Master of Arts in History program rolls off the tongue of Justin Behrend, professor of history and graduate program director. It’s quickly proven accurate in talking with Behrend
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Zeta Iota Sisters League of Storytellers News Written by Nathaniel D’Amato, graduating senior Since April of 1979, SUNY Geneseo has fostered a lifelong sisterhood of strong-minded and determined women through its chapter of the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated—Zeta Iota. This sorority centers on the principles of scholarship, service, sisterhood, and finer womanhood—the idea of
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Caption 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
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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
Education Professor Receives Second-Year Funding from the Library ofCongress Read More »
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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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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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.
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
Barsema Earns Constructive Dialogue Facilitator Certification Read More »
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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