News Archive

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

The Princeton Review has again named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College, based on a combination of institutional and student survey data, including academic rigor, affordability, and career outcomes for graduates, among others.

Sarah Fadlaoui ’22, from Ellicott City, MD, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Germany.

In a new article published in the Journal of Biogeography, geographer Associate Professor Stephen Tulowiecki and four undergraduate researchers examined the influence of Native American land use on the composition of historic forests in the Northeastern United States.

​​​​​​​Over 100 students are expected to travel abroad on SUNY Geneseo Study Abroad programs in summer 2022. 

Kallie Swyer ’17, from Guilderland, NY, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright Study/Research Award in creative writing for Lithuania.

Syndou Cisse ’22 is one of 45 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) to receive the 2022 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding EOP students for their academic achievements and overcoming personal obstacles throughout their lives

Harry Harkins ’21 has received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) Fellowship for 2022–23.

SUNY Geneseo was recently named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s Transfer Honor Roll in recognition of the dynamic pathways the College has created to support transfer students.

Jeffrey Over, professor of geological sciences, has won a 2022–23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to spend Fall 2022 in the Czech Republic.

Geneseo’s School of Business has received extension of its business accreditation from the AACSB International (AACSB), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Such accreditation by the AACSB International Board of Directors is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than five percent of the world’s 16,000 business schools.

SUNY Geneseo's library has reclaimed the old pool in Schrader Hall as a satellite storage facility for the print book collection. Watch a video here.

Three STEM major students have received DAAD internship scholarships to do research this summer in Germany.

SUNY Geneseo recently invited students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by faculty members of the college’s chapter.

School of Business faculty member Intekhab Alam has been awarded the rank of Distinguished Teaching Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Distinguished ranks are the highest honors awarded by SUNY.

SUNY Geneseo is named as a Tree Campus USA College by the Tree Campus Higher Education, an Arbor Day Foundation program that honors colleges and universities and their leaders for promoting healthy trees and engaging students and staff in the spirit of conservation.

The Geneseo Chamber Singers recently debuted a new choral work, "Say It Out Loud." Watch a video here.

The Department of Philosophy is offering a new minor starting in the Fall 2022 semester. The interdisciplinary ethics and values in society minor includes foundational coursework in philosophy, topical course choices from more than a dozen disciplines, and a student capstone experience.

Michael Hughes ’20 has won a 2022–23 U.S. Student Fulbright Austria Community-Based Combined Award to serve in Vienna as an English Teaching Assistant.

Four undergraduate physics students will deliver presentations at the American Physical Society’s in-person annual meeting this April.

Amanda Schmidt, Ph.D., will deliver this year’s American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall room 214. The lecture will also be live-streamed to those who register in advance.

The School of Business is introducing a new data analytics major for undergraduate students interested in the science of identifying trends and patterns in raw data and drawing conclusions.

Stephen Tulowiecki, associate professor of Geography and Sustainability Studies at SUNY Geneseo, has spent two years developing a thematic map atlas of Letchworth State Park.

SUNY Geneseo and the Northeast College of Health Sciences announced a new educational partnership. The institutions have established 11 new articulated program agreements to save students time and money while securing their admission into Northeast’s in-demand doctor of chiropractic program.

Andy Robinson '99, a graduate of SUNY Geneseo and Columbia University’s 3+2 program in chemical engineering, leveraged his degree into a career as a winemaker for the Seghesio Family Vineyards in Sonoma County, CA.