News Archive

For the 11th time in US News & World Report’s 16 years of college rankings, SUNY Geneseo has earned the #1 spot for Best Undergraduate Teaching in the Regional Universities—North category.

SUNY Geneseo’s director of the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), Alexis Clifton, has been named a fellow of SUNY AI for the Public Good. Twenty SUNY faculty and staff have been selected for the inaugural class.

Melinda Treadwell Appointed 14th President of SUNY Geneseo

SUNY Geneseo and the University at Albany have formed a collaborative agreement providing students an accelerated opportunity to earn an MPA degree in public administration and policy.

An interdisciplinary team at SUNY Geneseo has been awarded a $366,670 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program.

Surveillance epidemiologists Sydney Alexander ’19, MPH, and Julia Tellerman ’20, MPH, both work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infections Program.

A team of researchers at SUNY Geneseo has led the description and naming of three newly discovered species of deep-sea fishes from the eastern Pacific Ocean.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of English and Creative Writing is launching a new minor and a menu of microcredentials designed to develop students' professional skills.

SUNY Geneseo School of Education assistant professor Peter Kalenda recently served as a consultant for a K-12 school district as it introduces artificial intelligence tools into its classrooms.

SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business has launched an online master’s in accounting program.

Washington Monthly selected SUNY Geneseo as one of only 25 colleges and universities in the United States as a Best-in-Class College.

Students, faculty, and staff marked the beginning of Fall 2025 at two campus convocations this week.

Nicholas Warner ’00, SUNY Geneseo associate professor of geological, environmental, and planetary sciences, was recently awarded a $307,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars Data Analysis Program.

The State University of New York has appointed Mary C. Toale, SUNY Geneseo’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since March 2024, as the officer-in-charge at SUNY Geneseo, effective August 25.

New York Times best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer will deliver the 2025 Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo.

SUNY Geneseo is included in Princeton Review's book The Best 391 Colleges: 2026 Edition and is named to their "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast" list.

Melanie Blood, PhD, has been appointed as SUNY Geneseo’s inaugural dean for workforce development and associate provost for curriculum.

SUNY Geneseo’s efforts to support first-generation college students have earned national recognition from FirstGen Forward, which recently welcomed the College into its 2025–26 cohort.

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society named SUNY Geneseo to its 2025 Transfer Honor Roll.

Geneseo alumni discuss how studying abroad impacted their lives.

SUNY Geneseo’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education has received accreditation through the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP), the largest comprehensive teacher education program in the SUNY system and one of the largest in the US.

Britina Cheng ’16, a Geneseo English grad, is the editorial producer for Cinematrix, the movie-based daily trivia game from Vulture, New York Magazine’s entertainment news site.

Intekhab Alam, distinguished teaching professor of marketing in SUNY Geneseo's School of Business, has won a highly competitive 2025–26 Fulbright US Scholar award for Oman for Fall 2025.

SUNY Geneseo has successfully attained—and exceeded by $1 million—its $45 million goal for the Opportunities Rising: Geneseo for Generations capital campaign.

The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College for 2025.