News Archive

Seven teams from Geneseo move on to the final round of the New York Business Plan Competition

Geneseo Piano Trio’s second concert since the group's formation will take place on April 17.

Geochemist and biochemist Nita Sahai will deliver the 13th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the lecture—titled “The Potential Roles of Minerals in the Origins of Life”—will take place in Newton Hall Room 202.

Teams from six area colleges compete at SUNY Geneseo for $500,000 in prizes in the regional New York State Business Plan Competition.

Four SUNY Geneseo students were selected to travel to the University of California, Berkeley for the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University conference.

SUNY Geneseo students raised an unprecedented $173,282.51 in Saturday’s 11th annual Relay for Life, a fundraiser that supports the American Cancer Society (ACS). In aiding the ACS, the student-run event helped not only to raise money for cancer research, but also to sustain services for cancer patients.

Robert Musil, president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s second annual President’s Sustainability Lecture April 12 at 2:30 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom. As a part of Geneseo’s Earth Week celebrations, Musil’s speech “Rachel Carson & Her New York Legacy” will examine Rachel Carson and what her effect has been not only on New York State, but also on women involved in Western New York sustainability.

Three students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will not only include its orchestra of close to 70 musicians for its April 9 performance, but it will also feature the Geneseo student winners from the 2015 Concerto Competition.

A SUNY Geneseo student has received a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and another received an honorable mention in the highly competitive national competition.

Students Brandon Mark '16 and Zachary Hallenbeck '16 have built a unique solar-powered golf cart as part of an eGarden project. The design employs rotating panel mount to maximize efficiency.

Geneseo is involved with two upcoming teacher recruitment fairs.

Geneseo pride took Mascot Madness 2016 by storm, defeating universities with three and four times the campus' enrollment.

SUNY Geneseo’s spring production of the musical “Into the Woods” will not only amuse audience members, but it will enlighten them, too.

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The guide included Geneseo in four other categories: Best Northeastern Colleges; Top 50 Green Colleges; and the Top 200 Colleges That Pay You Back.

Anthony J. Macula, SUNY Geneseo professor of mathematics, has been awarded a 2015-16 American Association for the Advancement of Science/American Mathematical Society Congressional Fellowship.

Geneseo has been certified as one of 254 Tree Campus USA colleges for its commitment to sustaining a healthy environment.

Faculty members at the State University of New York at Geneseo have elected 84 students to the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

Livingston CARES made a 10-year commitment to Biloxi and Harrison County, Miss., following Hurricane Katrina. Harrison County recognizes the difference volunteers have made.

SUNY Geneseo recognized individuals, student organizations, and the Geneseo Fire Department with volunteer and service awards during the college’s annual Volunteer and Service Awards Dinner March 22. The college’s Advisory Committee on Volunteer and Service Programs created the awards in 2011 to recognize the awardees for their high level of commitment to service with the college’s community partners.

Four Geneseo students will be presenting their projects at the annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, including senior Benjamin Conard, whose submission has been named a semifinalist for Resolution’s Social Venture Challenge at the CGI U.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles has been elected to the Council of Fellows Board of the American Council on Education (ACE). She will also serve the first year of her three-year term as Secretary, an elected officer of the Board’s Executive Committee.

Join alumni, parents, friends and family on Saturday, March 25 in Lake Placid for a reception before the Ice Knights play in the National Championship Semi-Final Game!!

Michael Oberg, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo, has been elected a fellow of the New York Academy of History.

The Geneseo Milne Library and the Geneseo Literary Forum will highlight the work of Association of Writers & Writing Programs Book of Nonfiction Prize winner Sonja Livingston at 6 p.m. on March 7 in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.