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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.

SUNY Geneseo students raised an unprecedented $173,282.51 in Saturday’s 11th annual Relay for Life, a fundraiser that supports the American Cancer Society (ACS). In aiding the ACS, the student-run event helped not only to raise money for cancer research, but also to sustain services for cancer patients.

Robert Musil, president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s second annual President’s Sustainability Lecture April 12 at 2:30 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom. As a part of Geneseo’s Earth Week celebrations, Musil’s speech “Rachel Carson & Her New York Legacy” will examine Rachel Carson and what her effect has been not only on New York State, but also on women involved in Western New York sustainability.

Three students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will not only include its orchestra of close to 70 musicians for its April 9 performance, but it will also feature the Geneseo student winners from the 2015 Concerto Competition.

A SUNY Geneseo student has received a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and another received an honorable mention in the highly competitive national competition.

Students Brandon Mark '16 and Zachary Hallenbeck '16 have built a unique solar-powered golf cart as part of an eGarden project. The design employs rotating panel mount to maximize efficiency.

Geneseo is involved with two upcoming teacher recruitment fairs.

Geneseo pride took Mascot Madness 2016 by storm, defeating universities with three and four times the campus' enrollment.

SUNY Geneseo’s spring production of the musical “Into the Woods” will not only amuse audience members, but it will enlighten them, too.