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The State University of New York at Geneseo will host the fifth annual Front Porch Republic conference, “Sustainable Localism: Sages, Prophets, and Jesters,” Saturday, Oct. 3 in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

SUNY Geneseo has joined a diverse coalition of public and private colleges and universities with the goal of improving the college admission application process for all students. The coalition is developing a free platform of online tools to streamline the experience of planning for and applying to college.

Geneseo’s annual fall Honors Recital will take place Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The concert will feature classical pieces performed by flutist Megan Martel; sopranos Francesca DiGiorgio and Brianna Kelly, and French hornist Katherine Zaslavsky. Also performing are saxophonist Alec Friedman, cellist Harrison Hartsough, and pianists Shiho Azuma and Xiangjing Chen.

Geological Sciences Chair Ben Laabs published an op-ed piece in the Albany Times Union about the rising popularity of hiking, and the importance of preserving New York's trails.

For the fifth time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching” rankings among north region universities in its just-published “Best Colleges 2016” guide. Geneseo has ranked first in that category for five of the six years “U.S. News” has included it in its annual rankings.

Polish-born composer and pianist Beata Golec––a Geneseo adjunct lecturer in music––will perform in “The Color of Emotions” faculty recital on Sept. 11 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. Rebeca Boyd, a violinist and Eastman Community Music School teacher that Golec has collaborated with previously, will assist her in the concert.

Patrick X. Rault, associate professor of mathematics at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to recognize the quality of his undergraduate teaching. The award ceremony will take place at the upcoming 100th anniversary conference of the MAA in Washington, D.C.

Washington Monthly magazine has ranked SUNY Geneseo fifth overall among the nation’s master's 673 universities for its contribution to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research and civic engagement, and promoting an ethic of service to country. It’s the third year in a row that Geneseo has been in the top five schools in the rankings.

SUNY Geneseo campus photographer Keith Walters, a 2011 graduate of the college, has landed three awards in the 2015 University Photographers Association of America (UPAA) national competition.

At Geneseo, faculty members of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education creating learning opportunities for Geneseo education students in diverse ways that also provide better access to opportunities, resources and comprehensive education for several populations in our community.

Rising fifth- through 10th-grade students from the Rochester City School District are on the SUNY Geneseo campus through July 24 investigating the culture and science of cooking during the college’s annual Rochester Young Scholars Academy camp (RYSAG).

SUNY Geneseo senior Maydelis Minaya, one of five Geneseo students with a Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (JFEW) scholarship, is among those featured on a SinoVision English television report titled “Not Your Average Summer School

SUNY Geneseo is among 44 “Best Buy Schools” in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2016 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.

Denise A. Battles began her tenure today as SUNY Geneseo’s 13th president. The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Battles to the position in January following a national search, becoming the second woman to lead the college as permanent president in the college’s 144-year history. She will be officially installed as president during an inaugural ceremony Oct. 22 on campus.

In a study published in the journal Nutrition, Wendy Pogozelski, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of Geneseo’s Department of Chemistry, describes evidence from clinical and experimental studies that supports a carbohydrate-restriction approach to treatment of type 2 diabetes.

Academically talented students with financial need will benefit from a $639,136 grant the National Science Foundation has awarded SUNY Geneseo to recruit students interested in geology, geochemistry and geophysics programs.

SUNY Geneseo faculty member Glenn McClure has completed a new choral work that the European Space Operations Center Chorus will perform in Darmstadt, Germany, June 28 to celebrate the center’s successful comet landing last November. The work is also in celebration of 25th anniversary of the chorus.

A new SUNY Geneseo study abroad program in Iceland is among four winners of 2015-16 SUNY Chancellor’s Grants for Innovative Study Abroad Programs, which supports unique opportunities that increase student mobility overseas.

A challenge 25 years in the making, the Make Your Mark program engaged students to raise more than $10,000 to support what matters most to their experiences on campus.

Michael Oberg, professor of history at SUNY Geneseo and an internationally renowned scholar in Native American studies, has been appointed a Distinguished University Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Oberg is the sixth SUNY Geneseo faculty member to receive a SUNY Distinguished Professorship.

For 10 years, Dr. Rob Doggett has run the Genesee Valley Peace Poetry contest, encouraging students in grade K through 8 to write poems about peace—whatever that might mean to them. “The goal of the contest,” said Dr. Doggett, Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, “is to give students the opportunity to reflect creatively on the theme of peace at a time when so much of what they encounter in the media is dominated by images of violence.”

Geneseo’s annual short film festival, Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival (GIFF), has grown steadily in popularity in its four years of existence.

Student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program captured a total of five wins in this year’s New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany April 24, including a first and third place prize.

SUNY Geneseo is experiencing a banner year for Fulbright Awards with the selection of a record four honorees – three grant recipients and one alternate – from six Geneseo applications. All recipients received English teaching assistantships (ETA) and will be teaching English part-time to non-native English-speakers, while also completing projects of the own part-time and serving as cultural ambassadors for the United States.

SUNY Geneseo students raised a record $171,000 in Saturday’s 10th annual Relay for Life, a signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society (ACS) that helps support cancer research and support services for cancer patients. The event raised more than $131,000 last year.