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SUNY Geneseo will be hosting the third annual Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) Women of Color Conference March 4-6.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will open its spring season on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and

The Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival (GIFF) will begin its fifth annual short film competition on April 1.

SUNY Geneseo is among the Peace Corps’ top volunteer-producing colleges in the country.

This week’s snow and subfreezing temperatures were a perfect backdrop for SUNY Geneseo’s Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers’ 15th Annual Deep Freeze, a week-long around-the-clock campout to raise funds in the fight against cancer.

SUNY Geneseo has launched the first-ever National Book Review Month (NaRMo).

Celebrating its 96th concert performance, SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance will feature new works by Dance Studies faculty and guest choreographers in its performance, “48Live: New Vistas,” on Feb. 25-28 in the Alice Austin Theatre.

Mark Broomfield ‘94, assistant professor of theater and dance, has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.

Justin Behrend, associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, has been awarded the 2016 McLemore Prize, which honors “the most distinguished scholarly book on a topic in Mississippi history or biography published in 2015.”

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation, and generous financial aid – according to The Princeton Review, an academic tutoring, test preparation and college admission service company.

This week’s snow and subfreezing temperatures were a perfect backdrop for SUNY Geneseo’s Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers’ 15th Annual Deep Freeze, a week-long around-the-clock campout to raise funds in the fight against cancer.

Meghan Barrett, a senior from Penfield, N.Y., has received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Writing Internship for 2016.

SUNY Geneseo’s String Band Square Dance will take place on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

The SUNY Geneseo Wind Quintet will feature a new work by Distinguished Professor of Music James Walker at its concert Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Doty Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

Geneseo’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) is accepting student applications for its 2016-17 Student Ambassadors program. Now in its fifth year, the competitive program offers selected Ambassadors $5,000 awards that support a student-designed project in independent learning and innovative results. Projects may include travel, internship, research, community service, entrepreneurship or other activities and should result in identifiable and transformative results for the individual student and the community.

Gwendolyn Simmons, professor of religion at the University of Florida, will deliver the keynote address Jan. 27 during Geneseo’s weeklong commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Her address, titled “Inconvenient Hero: Martin Luther King” begins at 7 p.m. in Alice Austin theatre and is open to the public without charge.

SUNY Geneseo’s production of the musical “Nine” will employ aerial arts and live-feed video rarely used in Rochester-area theatrical productions.

The 2001 Nobel Laureate in physics, Wolfgang Ketterle, will deliver the 2016 Robert “Duke” Sells lecture in physics Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202.

SUNY Geneseo is receiving funding from the newly-established SUNY Investment and Performance Fund to support two programs aimed at helping more students complete their degrees.

SUNY Geneseo and the college/community organization Livingston CARES is preparing for work trips to Biloxi/Gulfport, Miss., and Brooklyn, N.Y., areas during this January’s winter break to continue repairing damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Ava Pascalar, supervising janitor in SUNY Geneseo's Facilities Services Department, has received the college's Gloria and Van Quaal Outstanding Quality Service Award for 2015. The annual award recognizes an individual in the Division of Administration and Finance who has had a consistently high level of performance during his or her career, a recognizable and meaningful impact at the college, and who serves as a role model for others.

SUNY Geneseo has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016, ranking 81st on the comprehensive list.

A SUNY Geneseo student is the sole nominee from the United States in a Fairtrade International contest to recognize the “Biggest Fairtrade Fan” in the world for 2016.

GENESEO, N.Y –– The Department of Music will proudly present the Geneseo Wind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Quartet in their holiday concert on Dec. 11 at 8 p.m in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

A 2006 SUNY Geneseo graduate, Liz Allen, has been named White House deputy communications director and deputy assistant to the president.