News Archive

President Battles was featured in "The Key Reporter," Phi Beta Kappa's publication for news and alumni relations. The article was written by alumna Meghan Barrett '16, who received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa writing internship for 2016.

SUNY Geneseo finished 16th out of over 450 institutions in the 2015-16 Learfield Sports Director's Cup standings, which measure the overall excellence of all 444 Division III athletic programs in the nation.

Not only did more than 700 alumni enjoy picture-perfect weather over the weekend for Reunion 2016 but all of our milestone reunion classes responded in a big way with a class gift of $530, 594, including $161,101 from members of the 50-Year-Club, including the Class of 1966, which was celebrating its 50th reunion this year.

The Geneseo Chamber Singers are on a 10-day musical tour in Italy where they will experience the rich history of the country while performing several concerts.

SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library has been named the winner of the 2016 Innovation in Instruction Award by The American Library Association’s Library Instruction Round Table (LIRT).

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Village of Geneseo Mayor Richard B. Hatheway signed an agreement May 26 to renew their commitment to maintaining strong relations with the community to ensure a high quality of life for all who work, live and study in the village.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Village of Geneseo Mayor Richard B. Hatheway are conducting two public events in the village to renew their commitment to maintaining strong town/gown relations: a signing ceremony to renew the Village/College Relations Compact and a first-ever community chat to answer questions from the public about the solid relationship between the college and village.

President Barack Obama intends to nominate SUNY Geneseo alumna Ysaye M. Barnwell to membership on the National Council on the Arts, the White House announced today.

Geneseo lands second consecutive State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) Commissioner's Cup

Conferral is the highest faculty honor granted by SUNY Board of Trustees

Graduating senior Ben Conard from East Setauket, N.Y., has received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) fellowship, funded by the German Bundestag and U.S. Congress.

Six SUNY Geneseo student-athletes were named recipients of the 2015-16 State University of New York Scholar-Athlete Award, in recognition of outstanding academic excellence and athletic achievement.

Geneseo graduating senior Harneel Kaur Aujla has won a prestigious Legislative Assistants to Member of Parliament (LAMP) Fellowship for 2016-2017 that will give her the opportunity to work for a year alongside and be mentored by a member of parliament in her home country of India. The program is designed to give young Indians experiences with policy-making at the national level.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of English will present the winners of the 11th annual Genesee Valley Peace Poetry Contest on May 8 at 2 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Four teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurial training program have won awards across three categories in the final round of the seventh annual New York Business Plan Competition in Albany.

A SUNY Geneseo graduating senior and a recent alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Student Fulbright Scholarships for 2016-17 to participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program.

Percussion Ensemble May 2 to Close Out Semester Musical Concerts

SUNY Geneseo senior Grant Kusick has received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship, the first Geneseo undergraduate to receive the prestigious award from the highly regarded federal agency that supports research and education in non-medical fields.

SUNY Geneseo students will participate in a daylong campus celebration April 19 by presenting their creative and scholarly endeavors during the college’s 10th annual GREAT Day—Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent. In addition to the plethora of students that will be showcasing their work through presentations, performances and exhibits, the astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, Brother Guy Consolmagno, will deliver the keynote address.

The Department of Music’s Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women’s Ensemble will present a joint concert on April 24 to commemorate the work of William Shakespeare.

Seven teams from Geneseo move on to the final round of the New York Business Plan Competition

Geneseo Piano Trio’s second concert since the group's formation will take place on April 17.

Geochemist and biochemist Nita Sahai will deliver the 13th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the lecture—titled “The Potential Roles of Minerals in the Origins of Life”—will take place in Newton Hall Room 202.

Teams from six area colleges compete at SUNY Geneseo for $500,000 in prizes in the regional New York State Business Plan Competition.

Four SUNY Geneseo students were selected to travel to the University of California, Berkeley for the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University conference.