News Archive

Samson McKinley ’23 from Ithaca, NY, has won an extremely competitive Saint Andrew’s Society of the State of New York Scholarship for graduate study in Scotland.

Three new Geneseo Foundation Board officers were elected recently to start a three-year term: Robert Walley '83, chair; Clare Cusack '96, vice chair; and Jessica Blair '00, secretary. 

Meet Nicole Kemmett ’24, an English and political science double major from Queens, NY.

Mary Cockram Morse and her late husband, William Edward Morse, were honored for their generosity and support of the College at the Donors of Distinction ceremony on April 27.

The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College in 2023.
Geneseo is among 209 outstanding institutions chosen for the designation, based on a combination of institutional and student survey data, including academics, affordability, and career outcomes of graduates.

A four-member team of students from Geneseo’s School of Business has won the Third Annual FDIC Academic Challenge.

Michelly Meza-Benitez ’23 is one of 46 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program to receive the 2023 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence.

Meet Shayda Ramsammy ’25, a musical theatre major.

Josephine "Jo" Lewis '23 and Rocio Ruiz '23 have received the 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence for their academic and extracurricular successes and leadership.

Bryan Gilman-Orozco ’23, a Spanish major from Hudson, MA, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award to Colombia.

The Office of Sustainability and members from more than five student organizations are spearheading activities for a week of events in celebration of Earth Day, April 22.

Barnabas Gikonyo, director of introductory chemistry labs and lecturer at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious 2023 Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Minority Affairs.

Educator Derinda McKinstry MSEd '17 will speak at SUNY Geneseo's master's degree commencement May 12.

SUNY Geneseo will award an honorary degree at its undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 20 to alum Molly Smith Metzler ’00.

Julia Grunes ’23, an English (creative writing) and psychology double major from Monroe, NY, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright award to Israel.

SUNY Geneseo is designated a “Voter Friendly Campus” for 2023–24 through a program sponsored by the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project.

Cora Woloson ’23 has won a Critical Language Scholarship award to study Hindi during Summer 2023 in Jaipur, India, at the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Rocio Ruiz ’23 is a communication major from Freeport, NY. Watch this video to learn more about her Geneseo experience.

State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr., EdD, will address SUNY Geneseo’s undergraduate Commencement ceremonies this year on Saturday, May 20.

SUNY Geneseo has hired a recent alum as its first sustainability fellow to help the college’s sustainability efforts and guide sustainability interns in expanding their work. 

SUNY Geneseo recently invited students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, prompted by their recent election by faculty members of the college’s chapter.

Emma Belica '24 is a dual biology and sustainability studies major from Buffalo, NY.

Geology and microbiology professor Bruce W. Fouke will deliver the 19th annual American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, March 23 at 7:30 p.m. at SUNY Geneseo in Newton Hall, room 202.

Isabella "Bella" Adamo ‘24 is a communication major from Barneveld, NY.

Matt Weber '24 is a communication major in the journalism and media track from Orchard Park, NY.