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Maria Gershuni '17 recently won the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) David J. Prior Award for an essay in which she shared her perspective of the value of a liberal arts education and how her experience at Geneseo has helped shaped who she is.

Geneseo will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Letter degree upon John Churchill, secretary emeritus of The Phi Beta Kappa Society, during the college’s 151st Commencement May 13.

SUNY Geneseo is among 83 campuses in 23 states recently designated a “Voter-Friendly Campus” by the national nonpartisan organizations Campus Vote Project (CVP) and NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

At Geneseo's eGarden, faculty, staff and students are sowing the seeds of ingenuity and better earth practices. Now they have the added power of electricity in the barn.

SUNY Geneseo is on a new list of the nation’s top public colleges, ranking 52nd out of 499 four-year public institutions in the country based on academic excellence, affordability, diversity and economic strength. Among New York’s 30 public colleges, Geneseo ranks fifth in the survey, the highest among SUNY’s four-year comprehensive colleges.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Karleen West’s research on indigenous reactions to oil development in Ecuador has earned national attention in two publications.

Geneseo's Relay for Life is one of the most successful in the country. This year, students will try to break a new fundraising record on April 8.

This year’s GREAT Day, April 25, features a lecture by an expert on how the brain controls complex behaviors, including vocal language and learning.

For the second time and in consecutive years, a Geneseo undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and is now headed to MIT.

SUNY Geneseo's annual April commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy will feature panel discussions with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists Jennifer Lawson, Karen Spellman, and Freddie Greene Biddle. The Civil Rights era activists will take part in panel discussions on April 3 & 4.

SUNY Geneseo will bring an iconic canon of American musical theater, “Gypsy: The Musical,” to its theater to both amuse and to teach valuable lessons to its audience.

Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 14th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 202. The lecture, titled “Frankenstein’s Weather: The Year Without a Summer, 1816,” is free and open to the public.

Juniors and sophomores from 13 area high schools are coming to the SUNY Geneseo campus March 31 to experience a day-long leadership training program created for the first time last year by a Geneseo student focused on empowering tomorrow’s leaders. At least 205 students are expected to attend from high schools in Livingston, Wyoming, and Genesee counties.

In the Peace Corps, I learned that I can live in another culture, figure out what the key features are, and be resourceful and work within that culture to be successful. These are the same core values and skills I have used throughout my life. You had to be able to make your own projects, and find your own satisfaction.

The Peace Corps was always on my radar, but it wasn’t until after I took Humanities II in Nicaragua as a junior through Geneseo that it became a very real plan for after graduation. The trip forever changed my outlook on the world, and the path that I saw myself taking in the future.

One perspective I gained is to know that it's ok when things don't work out as you planned. You simply use that experience and learn from it. And, perhaps the outcome is actually something better or more effective than what you originally planned.

I learned so much that it's hard to say what the one most valuable lesson was.

When I introduce myself in Senegal, I tell people my name is Mata Dia, the name my host family gave me when I began my Peace Corps service as a Community Economic Development volunteer. In America, I’m better known as Jessica Kroenert, adventure seeker, dog enthusiast, and Geneseo grad, class of 2015.

Red Hook, Brooklyn, was once a struggling neighborhood and is changing dramatically. It is now the college’s newest learning space.

For 18-year-old Hayley, the wounds from her friend’s death were still fresh. At night, the grief flooded her dreams: “I floated high above the ground, so gravity couldn’t hold me down. One day I drifted up into the clouds and I discovered an abandoned kingdom. I was not welcome. I wandered away from the castle and the light it provided.”

SUNY Geneseo senior Kelsey Costello, a psychology major from Northport, N.Y., recently received the Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Provider of the Year Award from the National Collegiate EMS Foundation.

On March 22, the Advisory Committee on Volunteer and Service Programs recognized organizations and community partners engaged in volunteer service, including several student groups and students who have shown commitment and had significant impact.

Stacey M. Robertson has been appointed to serve as SUNY Geneseo’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs. She is currently the dean of the College of Arts and Humanities at Central Washington University (CWU).

International Relations major Maria Gershuni ’17 is true (Geneseo) blue when it comes to singing the praises of faculty on campus. However, this semester she has discovered talent and knowledge beyond the valley, courtesy of the Council for Public Liberal Arts Colleges.

Geneseo alumna Molly Smith Metzler ’00, playwright, screenwriter and TV writer, will deliver the keynote address for Geneseo’s two commencement ceremonies on May 13 in the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena. Metzler received Geneseo’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2012.