News Archive

Students are making final preparations on their projects for presentation during GREAT Day April 17 (Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent). This is 12th year of the annual event, a college-wide symposium celebrating the creative and scholarly endeavors of Geneseo students.

Hundreds of hours of community service, involvement, and experiential learning have been the hallmarks of Casey Vincelette’s ’18 Geneseo experience.

Sotiri Athanasopoulos ’18 first discovered Geneseo while playing for the Bay State Breakers, a junior hockey team in Boston.

SUNY Geneseo alumnus Matthew McClure ’16 is among Geneseo’s latest 2018-19 U.S. Student Fulbright award winners. McClure won an award as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) for South Korea. Simon’s award is for Uruguay. Sarah Phillips ’18 also has been notified that she is an alternate candidate for Colombia.

Junior chemistry and physics double major Luke Holtzman has been named a 2018 Goldwater Scholar in a national competition recognizing promising juniors and sophomores from the United States who intend to pursue research careers in the natural sciences, mathematics and engineering.

Thai American playwright Prince Gomolvilas is teaching an intensive playwriting seminar for 11 Geneseo students through April 13.

Submissions are now open for all Geneseo students, faculty and staff to showcase their talents at the 2018 Key Bank Rochester Fringe Festival. As in previous years, Geneseo is expected to offer a full day of free entertainment.

A venerable SUNY Geneseo faculty member, Ronald Herzman, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English, is retiring at the end of the school year after 49 years with the College and will be presenting his farewell lecture April 13 at 4 p.m. in Room 202 of Newton Hall. The event is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow in Milne Library.

SUNY Geneseo alumni spanning the years 1976 – 2017 will participate in a celebration of 50 years of dance at the College during the Dance Ensemble’s performance of “50Live: Dancing Past to Present — Celebrating 50 Years” April 19-22 in the Alice Austin Theatre.

SUNY Geneseo’s spring production of “She Loves You” is the revival of a euphoric romantic comedy with a soaring score, and the Department of Music will be staging the production April 4 – 8 in the Doty Recital Hall.

First-generation college student Dillon Ramsey ’18 discovered an unexpected passion for physics, computer programming and mechanical engineering in Geneseo’s close-knit Department of Physics and Astronomy.

Jenna Lawson ’18 has been bridging the gap between comedy and community in her four years at Geneseo.

Geneseo alumna Felicia Vanacore '13 is making a mark as an elementary school kindergarten teacher in the Orlando, Florida, area.

As SUNY Geneseo continues to implement the College’s strategic plan, faculty and staff will soon have an opportunity to directly contribute to key objectives under the Access and Success focus area. On April 2, faculty and staff will be invited to participate in the Geneseo Employee Opinion Survey, which will measure concepts such as workplace satisfaction and campus culture.

SUNY Geneseo is on a new list of the nation’s top public colleges, ranking 52nd out of 485 four-year public institutions in the country and 15th among the 74 colleges in the east on the survey, compiled by Business First, a Buffalo-based publication.

Campus Auxiliary Services will hold its annual food show from 11 a.m. to  2 p.m. Wednesday, Mar. 28, in the MacVittie College Union ballroom.

SUNY Geneseo recognized individuals, student organizations, and community organizations with volunteer and service awards during the college’s annual Volunteer and Service Awards Dinner March 21.

Geneseo is continuing to implement the highest priority (Phase I) action items that were identified in the Geneseo 2021 Strategic Plan. Out of a pool of $1 million identified to advance those items, $350,000 was directed to time-sensitive student recruitment efforts.

It's become a memorable annual student event to help usher in spring. The Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival begins its seventh short film competition this Friday.

Leah McGray, director of instrumental activities at SUNY Geneseo, has a busy conducting schedule this weekend with performances by the Geneseo Wind Ensemble March 23 and the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra March 25. Both concerts are free and open to the public.

Alumna Leandra Marie Griffith ’16 has won a 2018-19 U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award for Belgium.

Matt Golombek, a senior research scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a veteran of space missions to Mars, will deliver the Fifteenth Annual American Rock Salt lecture in Geology March 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202. He will address “How to Select a Landing Site on Mars.”

SUNY Geneseo may soon add Cuba to its list of destinations for study abroad. Provost Stacey Robertson and Associate Director of the Study Abroad Office Sam Cardamone were part of a 21-member, nine-campus SUNY delegation attending the Congreso Universidad 2018 in Havana Feb. 11-17.

Marlene Laruelle, a research professor of international affairs at the George Washington University, will deliver the annual Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo. Her talk, "Making Sense of Russia: Putin’s Fourth Term and its Implications for Russia and the World,” will take place at 4 p.m., Thursday, March 22 in the Doty Recital Hall. The event is free and open to the public.

The SUNY Geneseo campus is undergoing a series of infrastructure and renovation projects, ranging from roof replacements to electrical and telecommunication upgrades. The following is a list of current projects, updates and completion dates.