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The Greg ’64 and Elizabeth O’Connell Family Endowment supports general scholarships for students with financial need from the Downstate New York area with a preference for students living in Brooklyn, particularly the Red Hook area.

Geneseo Community Engagement (GCE) is a new way to connect the resources at SUNY Geneseo with the needs of the community and vice versa. Combining the shared missions of several campus programs, GCE forges relationships between local residents and businesses and members of the SUNY Geneseo community.

SUNY Geneseo geology majors Megan Kopp '19 and Alyssa DeMott '19 will join Geneseo planetary geologist Nick Warner at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Nov. 26 in Pasadena, Calif., for the scheduled 3 p.m. ET landing of InSight, NASA’s latest mission to Mars. The team will work for several weeks to characterize the area around the lander and make recommendations to NASA engineers on where to place the sensitive geological instruments that will explore the planet's crust, mantle and core.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies presents Geneseo Dance Ensemble's Dances the Liberal Arts in Bodies in Motion. The concert features new works by student choreographers. The program will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre, William A. Brodie Hall, on the SUNY Geneseo campus at 7:30 p.m. Dec. 6–8, and at 2 p.m. on Dec. 9. The performances are open to the public and free parking is available.

The College was named to <em>Washington Monthly’s</em> "2018 America’s Best Colleges For Student Voting" list. This is a first-of-its-kind list of the colleges and universities that are doing the most to help their students become engaged citizens.

Alumnus Paul Grassi '96 reflects on two moments during his undergraduate years as a business major at Geneseo that would change the course of his professional life.

Livingston CARES is offering more trips than ever before, to more cities. Eleven week-long trips will be offered in 2019 to students, faculty and staff, and community residents. Registration is open and trips are filled on a first come, first served basis.

SUNY Geneseo is hosting the North East Affiliate of College and University Residence Halls’ (NEACURH) Regional Leadership Conference, Friday–Sunday, Nov. 2–4. Approximately 300 students and professional staff members from 45 different institutions will be attending the conference.

The Geneseo Foundation and the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association presented awards for philanthropy and service on Oct. 19 during Geneseo President Denise A. Battles’ annual donor recognition gala, this year a benefit to support the President’s Access to Excellence Scholarship Endowment.

The Trading Room in SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business is now the Edward Pettinella ’73 Trading Room in honor of the generous alumnus, whose $750,000 gift to the College will create an endowment to support the annual operating costs of the applied learning lab.

SUNY Geneseo is included in the newly released 2018 edition of The Princeton Review’s Guide to 399 Green Colleges. The College has consistently been included in the annual guide since it was first published in 2010.

The Division of Academic Affairs recently honored five employees with its inaugural Academic Affairs Awards for Outstanding Commitment to Geneseo’s Values.

Several alumni met with current students from the School of Business during their annual New York City trip. Alums working in finance emphasizes the types of positions available to accounting majors, from financial planners to risk managers.

October is National Cyber Security Awareness month. This is the second article in a four-part series on security brought to you by Geneseo’s Information Security Program Team.

A leading expert on international law, Harold Hongju Koh, will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s 2018-19 Phi Beta Kappa lecture on Thursday, Oct. 25. The lecture, "The Trump Administration and International Law," will take place at 4 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall and is free and open to the public.

The revised academic calendar for 2018–19 and beyond now includes the option for students to take courses over intersession. The 2018-19 intersession will have a range of offerings that include online courses.

SUNY Geneseo plans to renovate two core campus buildings as part of its ongoing efforts to maintain and redesign facilities to create effective learning environments on campus as outlined in the College’s strategic plan.

More than 70 students and faculty sponsors from COPLAC institutions in the Northeast will convene on campus October 12–13 as Geneseo hosts the 2018 Northeast Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity Conference (URSCA).

October is Campus Sustainability Month at SUNY Geneseo and the College community is hosting a variety of lectures, workshops and events to raise awareness, spark discussion and promote personal involvement.

SUNY Geneseo’s summer 2018 orientation saw record attendance with over 98 percent of first-year and 78 percent of transfer students attending the program’s various sessions.

Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, a leader in the indigenous environmental activist community, will deliver the President’s 2018 Sustainability Lecture. Martinez will deliver “Roots of Revolution” on Wednesday, Oct. 10, at 2:30 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom, on the Geneseo campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Campus Auxiliary Services (CAS) will host the grand opening and ribbon cutting ceremony of Red Jacket Dining Complex. The ribbon cutting will take place at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, September 21. The event will take place during SUNY Geneseo’s Homecoming and Family Weekend. A brief reception will take place at the Twisted Fork station within the dining complex.

A team of Geneseo faculty members, a student and a small-business consultant are exploring how large amounts of data can be conveyed through sound thanks to a $50,000 NSF Innovation Corps-National Innovation Network Teams grant.  School of Business student CJ Burke '19 is the entrepreneurial lead, serving as the team's spokesperson.

Fourteen SUNY Geneseo students are Presidential Scholars for the 2018-19 academic year, representing a variety of academic areas and exemplifying the college's institutional values. A presidential scholar is a top-achieving member of the senior class who also serves as an ambassador for the college.

Author and public historian Spencer Crew, Ph.D., will deliver the 2018 Walter Harding Lecture Sept. 28 at 2 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. Crew's lecture, “Civil Disobedience, the Underground Railroad and Thoreau,” is free and open to the public.