News Archive

Nine SUNY Geneseo students are intently focused on preparing for careers in international relations and global affairs thanks to the scholarships they have received for the 2015-17 academic years from the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women – SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program.

Juniors and sophomores from seven area high schools are coming to the SUNY Geneseo campus Dec. 4 to experience a day-long leadership training program created by a Geneseo student focused on empowering tomorrow’s leaders.

Women cross country team took second place and the men third place at the NCAA Div. III championships over the weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

SUNY Geneseo jointly awarded a Medal of Distinction Nov. 19 to American Rock Salt Co. founder and CEO Joe Bucci and his wife, retired educator and community leader Elaine. The medal is the college’s highest honor recognizing exceptional professional achievement and contributions to society. This year’s recipients are both SUNY Geneseo graduates.

Ganie DeHart, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Psychology, has been named the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York Professor of the Year.

The Geneseo Festival Chorus and Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will present Joseph Haydn’s epic masterpiece, “The Creation” on Sunday Nov. 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Pier Gabrielle Foreman, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English and Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, will deliver this year’s Walter Harding Lecture Nov. 16 at SUNY Geneseo.

Dance Alum Norwood Pennewell on Campus

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present its first main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, Tina Howe’s “The Art of Dining,” from Nov. 11–15 in Brodie Hall’s Alice Austin Theatre.

William T. Cavanaugh, director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s 2015 MacVittie Lecture Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. His address, “Does Religion Cause Violence?,” is free and open to the public.

National French Week at Geneseo features a variety of engaging Francophone-centric events from Nov. 9-13

The Geneseo Wind Quintet will perform on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall, showcasing the excellent faculty musicianship at the college. The concert is free and open to the public.

Geneseo’s musical theatre majors will present the musical revue “And the World Goes Round” as part of their Page to Stage program from Nov. 4 - 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The performance features the music of celebrated Broadway songwriting duo John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Wendi Kinney, assistant dean of students for fraternal life and off-campus services, is the recipient of the 2015 Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors.

The Geneseo String Band will be hosting and performing at their square dance event on Nov. 7 from 7 - 10 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

The Kinetic Gallery unveils a stirring exhibit by Margaret and Notch Miyake, documenting the story of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II.

SUNY Geneseo ranked first among the 500 colleges in the nation with bachelor’s-only physics departments for producing the largest number of students graduating with a physics degree from 2012-2014.

The Geneseo Wind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Quartet will perform in Wadsworth Auditorium on Oct. 30 at 8:00 p.m.

The college celebrates 25 years of the Roemer Arboretum, an outdoor classroom and oasis — and an ecosystem with war and peace played out on a tiny scale.

Cooking classes. Kosher. Artfully plated meals. A pastry chef. Letchworth Dining Hall is reborn.

Tarik Kitson '08 is a health-care administrator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — and co-directs Active Plus, a nonprofit organization with an expanding set of programs to combat youth obesity.

SUNY Geneseo’s new president, Denise A. Battles, was installed yesterday during her inauguration ceremony on campus in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Wadsworth Auditorium will host a special concert in honor of the Presidential Inauguration on Friday, October 23. The concert will feature the best in Opera, Jazz, String Band, Musical Theatre, A Cappella and Percussion Ensemble.

An uncommon mix of music and vocal range will be presented at a joint concert featuring the Geneseo Chamber Singers and the Spectrum Women’s Ensemble, which will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 16 in Doty Recital Hall.

A series of events are underway at SUNY Geneseo leading up to the inauguration Oct. 22 of Denise A. Battles, the second woman to lead the college as permanent president in the college’s 144-year history.