News Archive

On Saturday, May 20, SUNY Geneseo held its 157th Commencement, conferring nearly a thousand degrees before a capacity audience of family, friends, faculty, and staff.

Geneseo's School of Business is introducing a new marketing major for undergraduate students beginning in Fall 2023.

Kodjo Adabra, associate professor of Francophone studies in Global Languages and Cultures, has been elected to a three-year term as a councilor in the Arts and Humanities Division of the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR).

Abdul Sanderson ’20 has been awarded both a prestigious 2023 Charles B. Rangel International Affairs Fellowship and a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright award for Kyrgyzstan in highly competitive national competitions.

​​​​​​​Three members of the campus community were recently recognized with the second annual Advancing Our Institutional Mission (AIM) awards for their dedication to the college’s mission and for exemplifying the SUNY Geneseo spirit.

SUNY Geneseo is launching a new study abroad program this summer in Equatorial Guinea. It is one of several programs led by Geneseo faculty.

Alexander Ruiz '24 has been elected as the SUNY Student Assembly president.
His one-year term begins June 1. As president, Ruiz will lead Student Assembly members representing all 64 SUNY campuses.

Samson McKinley ’23 from Ithaca, NY, has won an extremely competitive Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York Scholarship for graduate study in Scotland.

Three new Geneseo Foundation Board officers were elected recently to start a three-year term: Robert Walley '83, chair; Clare Cusack '96, vice chair; and Jessica Blair '00, secretary. 

Meet Nicole Kemmett ’24, an English and political science double major from Queens, NY.

Student actors and theatre crew share what happens behind the curtain and what they bring to their performances.

Mary Cockram Morse and her late husband, William Edward Morse, were honored for their generosity and support of the College at the Donors of Distinction ceremony on April 27.

The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College in 2023.
Geneseo is among 209 outstanding institutions chosen for the designation, based on a combination of institutional and student survey data, including academics, affordability, and career outcomes of graduates.

Move aside smartphones. Some students are choosing to go back in time over the immediacy of digital images and social media.

A four-member team of students from Geneseo’s School of Business has won the Third Annual FDIC Academic Challenge.

Michelly Meza-Benitez ’23 is one of 46 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program to receive the 2023 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence.

Meet Shayda Ramsammy ’25, a musical theatre major.

Josephine "Jo" Lewis '23 and Rocio Ruiz '23 have received the 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence for their academic and extracurricular successes and leadership.

Bryan Gilman-Orozco ’23, a Spanish major from Hudson, MA, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award to Colombia.

The Office of Sustainability and members from more than five student organizations are spearheading activities for a week of events in celebration of Earth Day, April 22.

High-energy-density physicist Danae Polsin ’13 and professor of physics Stephen Padalino explain experiments that recently harnessed the same energy produced by the sun and stars — and what it may mean for the future of energy.

Barnabas Gikonyo, director of introductory chemistry labs and lecturer at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious 2023 Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Minority Affairs.

Curiosity inspired Holly Nicole Kandel ’16 to move to Senegal. She built a career in Africa, advocating for health and community development.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles first saw the Bhangra student club perform during her early days on campus — and wanted to try it.

Geneseo’s Student Managed Investment Fund provides real money for students to learn about investing first hand.