News Archive

In a national competition, five SUNY Geneseo students have won 2025–26 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad.

Geneseo’s student-led Biology Mentoring Program (Biome) pairs volunteers with first-year and transfer biology majors, helping to improve student success rates.

SUNY Geneseo’s Associate Professor Hanna Brant, political science and international relations, has been awarded a SUNY Chancellor’s Horizon Award for Faculty Research and Scholarship.

Student-athlete Joseph Vogt '25, a SUNY Geneseo history and adolescence education major from Penfield, NY, who is also a member of the men's soccer team, has been selected for a 2025 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

SUNY Geneseo marked a significant milestone on April 25 with the official grand opening of the newly renovated Milne Library.

SUNY Geneseo's speakers for the 2025 undergraduate and master’s degree ceremonies will be Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Honeoye Falls-Lima Principal Joelle Weaver.

A new Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce report shows that a SUNY Geneseo education delivers exceptional long-term value.

SUNY Geneseo has appointed Agya Boakye-Boaten, PhD, as the inaugural dean for the School of Arts and Sciences.

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

SUNY Geneseo was named a 2025–26 Voter Friendly Campus (VFC), one of 272 campuses in 39 states and the District of Columbia by Fair Elections Center’s Campus Vote Project and NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

Denise A. Battles, president of SUNY Geneseo, has been selected by Rochester Business Journal as a 2025 Women of Excellence honoree.

Six SUNY Geneseo athletic teams will compete in the NCAA postseason during the next two weekends: women’s basketball, men’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving.

Meet sophomore biology major Sarah Karimi from Syracuse, NY.

Daniel Hungerman, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Monday, April 7.

Paleoecologist Patricia Kelley, professor emerita at University of North Carolina Wilmington, will deliver the 21st annual American Rock Salt Lecture.

Meet senior Kaden Wheeler '25

For the seventh time in the past eight years, SUNY Geneseo has been named a Top Producer of Fulbright US Student awards, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced in its annual article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance proudly presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble in Dancing into View.

SUNY Geneseo has appointed Lisa Wilder, PhD, as the associate dean in the School of Business, effective February 27.

Milne Library, after nearly five long years and a $40 million renovation, has finally reopened.

The Office of Accessibility Services welcomes autism activist and animal behavior expert Temple Grandin, PhD, to SUNY Geneseo for a public talk Friday, March 28.

Carolyn Campbell, PhD, has been appointed SUNY Geneseo’s interim vice president for college advancement and executive director of the Geneseo Foundation. She will join the Geneseo community on February 13.

Professor of history Joe Cope has been awarded a $500,000 Mellon Foundation grant for the project Social Justice and the Humanities: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice.

Professor Karleen West, chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Political Science and International Relations, has been named to the Department Chair Leadership Institute (DCLI) at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).

2024 was an exciting year for SUNY Geneseo!