News Archive

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!

SUNY Geneseo associate professor of English Gillian Paku has been selected as a fellow for the inaugural 2025 cohort of the Accessibility Advocates & Allies (AAA) Faculty Fellowship Program.

Rachel Britton '18, a writer/editor/translator, has published her first book of poems in translation from Icelandic, A Woman Looks Over Her Shoulder, by Brynja Hjálmsdóttir (Circumference Books, 2024).

Five members of SUNY Geneseo's University Police Department (UPD) were recently recognized by the SUNY Police Chiefs Association in Albany this week.

A team of ten SUNY Geneseo students helped identify human impacts on deep-sea habitats, documenting more than 100 instances of trash in the deep sea.

SUNY Geneseo’s director of counseling services, Jaime Castillo, PhD, LMHC, has been named a fellow of SUNY’s 2025 Hispanic Leadership Institute.

SUNY Geneseo has been recognized by the ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting.

Various academic departments at Geneseo have been able to successfully utilize the Raman imaging system acquired through an NSF funded grant in 2021.

Celebrity Chef Matt Abdoo '02 wants his food to help make memories.

SUNY Geneseo's Department of Theatre and Dance presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble in Journeys Unfolding. The concert will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre on November 14, 15, and 16 at 7:30 p.m. and November 17 at 2 p.m.

Ten SUNY Geneseo students will serve as Presidential Scholars for the 202­4–25­ academic year.

Geneseo Foundation Honors David Klein ’85 with 2024 Philanthropic Leadership Award

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) has selected a SUNY Geneseo student-faculty research mentor team for the 2024 advocacy program Scholars Transforming Through Research (STR).

SUNY Geneseo was selected as one of nine SUNY institutions participating in Governor Kathy Hochul's SUNY Top 10% Promise program. The program creates a direct pathway for the highest-achieving New York high school seniors to gain admission and enroll at select SUNY colleges and universities.

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).