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SUNY's leader for sustainability and climate action visited campus to learn about Geneseo's efforts.

Milne Library is the first building on campus to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, reducing the campus carbon footprint. It utilizes full electrification for building systems.

The Princeton Review's Guide to Green Colleges: 2025 Edition includes SUNY Geneseo as one of its 511 featured “green colleges.”

Stephen Padalino, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Physics at Geneseo, has been selected to receive the American Physical Society’s 2025 Excellence in Physics Education Award.

Long recognized as a voter-friendly campus with high levels of student voter engagement, SUNY Geneseo has expanded those efforts in anticipation of the 2024 election.

Cora Woloson ’23, from Canandaigua, NY, has won a highly competitive American India Foundation (AIF) Banyan Impact Fellowship.

SUNY Geneseo’s University Police Department (UPD), through the college’s Office of Finance and Business Development, recently received a $250,000 award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance for Crisis Response and Intervention Training (CRIT).

Rodmon King, PhD, has been selected as SUNY Geneseo’s new chief diversity officer. He assumes the role on November 7.

Mark Broomfield, associate professor of English at SUNY Geneseo and director of Performance as Social Change, has recently published Black Queer Dance: Gay Men and the Politics of Passing for Almost Straight (Routledge, 2024).

Four Geneseo alumni have been recognized for their professional achievements in Rochester Business Journal’s annual “Forty under 40” list. This recognition underscores their significant contributions in their respective fields and the Rochester community.

A new partnership with Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine (LECOM) will facilitate early admission for SUNY Geneseo students interested in dentistry, podiatry, or osteopathic medicine.

SUNY Geneseo recently launched the Travel After Commencement (TAC) study abroad opportunity that provides students with more time in the field while saving tuition costs for a faculty-led international experience.

For the 10th time in U.S. News & World Report’s 15 years of college rankings, SUNY Geneseo has again earned the #1 spot for 2025 Best Undergraduate Teaching in the “Regional Universities—North” category.

Social entrepreneur and women’s advocate Rahama Wright ’02 will deliver this year’s Campus Sustainability Lecture on Monday, September 30, at 4 p.m. in the College Union Ballroom on the SUNY Geneseo campus.

At the 47th Phi Beta Kappa Society's (PBK)Triennial Council Meeting in Baltimore this summer, SUNY Geneseo's chapter, Alpha Delta of New York, was honored with a Certificate of Recognition from the national organization.

SUNY Geneseo has recently partnered with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Truth, Racial Healing, & Transformation (TRHT) program. The program aims to bring sustainable change by addressing the historic and contemporary effects of racism in communities and institutions.

The Department of Physics and Astronomy has introduced an astrophysics major for undergraduate students beginning in Fall 2024.

Geneseo Foundation Announces Sale of Roemer House to FLX Revival

A new study published today in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences sheds light on a remarkable isopod species named Bathyopsurus nybelini. Using the submersible Alvin, scientists, including SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor Mackenzie Gerringer, encountered this isopod swimming 3.7 miles deep in the Puerto Rico Trench and Cayman Trough.

SUNY Geneseo was recognized with a Bronze Seal from the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge for its students' nonpartisan democratic engagement.

SUNY Geneseo and the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences will provide students an accelerated opportunity to earn a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.

SUNY Geneseo and the University at Buffalo (UB) School of Law have formed a collaborative agreement allowing students to complete their BA and JD degrees in six years of full-time study.

SUNY Geneseo’s Cultivating Community series returns this fall under the guidance of professor of communication Meredith Harrigan and Interim Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) Clifton Harcum.

New and returning students and faculty gathered at two campus convocations to mark the beginning of Fall 2024.

SUNY Geneseo is included in Princeton Review's The Best 390 Colleges: 2025 Edition and their "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast" list.