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Fourteen SUNY Geneseo students were recently selected to serve as Presidential Scholars for the 2021-22 academic year. 

Two convocations welcomed new and returning students and faculty to campus for the beginning of fall classes.

Students interested in dental or osteopathic medicine now have an opportunity for early admission into medical school thanks to an articulation agreement signed August 18.

Jolanda Westerhof joined Geneseo on June 24 as dean of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education.

The College is offering students the opportunity to pursue a Sustainability Studies major through the Department of Geography and Sustainability Studies, starting this fall.

Through coursework and interdisciplinary studies across themes of society, development and the environment, students build a knowledge base, high-impact practical experiences, and professional skills that prepare them for graduate studies and careers in sustainability.

SUNY Geneseo is featured in the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2022

SUNY Geneseo now offers a Black Humanities course made possible in part due to a grant from the Modern Language Association.

The College is offering nearly a dozen continuing education classes this summer—most of which are online.

A team from SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business won the inaugural Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC Academic Challenge, a national competition among university and college students concerning the U.S. banking sector.

SUNY Geneseo’s combination of faculty support and mentoring, undergraduate research opportunities, curricular preparation, and collaborative atmosphere have turned Geneseo into a recognized pre-med powerhouse.

The State University of New York at Geneseo has invited more than 100 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Pandemic travel restrictions didn’t interfere with an international learning experience that Professor Meredith Harrigan planned for her communication Discussion & Group Dynamics students this semester.

Physics students are building theoretical models to help predict and interpret the behavior of gravitational waves, or distortions in the fabric of spacetime.

A newly published study finds that college students are investing in relationships and leveraging the “fear of missing out,” or FoMO, as a reminder to seize the day.

The SUNY Geneseo Department of History has entered into an agreement with Claremont Graduate University (CGU) to offer an accelerated bachelor's-to-master's program in history or cultural studies with a concentration in museum studies.

Assistant professor of communication Lee Pierce teaches a combination of comedy and social commentary in her course The Rhetoric of Stand-up.

For the third year, Geneseo’s popular intersession term is expanding to include additional offerings of online courses for winter break.

Eight SUNY Geneseo students participated in this year's virtual Council of Public Liberal Arts College's Northeast Regional Undergraduate Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity conference.

SUNY Geneseo has named Bruno Renero-Hannan as its first SUNY PRODiG Fellow (Promoting Recruitment, Opportunity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Growth). He'll serve as a visiting scholar in the anthropology department.

A full 47 years after leaving SUNY Geneseo one course short of his degree, Andre “Bud” Welter ’73 will graduate in May with a bachelor’s in geological sciences.

The InSight mission to Mars has completed its first Earth year of observations. The results were published as a set of six papers in Nature journals. The papers show that Mars is seismically active and reveal information about its complex atmosphere, magnetic field and geology. SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor Nicholas Warner is a co-author on two of the papers that detail the discovery of quakes on Mars—marsquakes—and describe the alien landscape at the landing site.

The Department of Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo is introducing a new major for undergraduate students interested in the social determinants of disease and health. The sociomedical sciences major examines the correlation between trends in health and its social causes, including social inequality and structural inequities.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble in Dancing to Defy Limits. The program will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre, William A. Brodie Hall, on the Geneseo campus on November 21–23 at 7:30 p.m. and November 24 at 2 p.m. The performances are open to the public and free parking is available. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at the Student Association Ticket Office or online at bbo.geneseo.edu.

Assistant Professor Jason Ozubko runs the Human Cognition and Memory Lab at SUNY Geneseo. Ozubko, a faculty member in the Department of Psychology, was recently awarded a grant from the National Institute on Neurological Disorders and Stroke, a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to study spatial memory using Google Street View. The project, which is aided by undergraduate researchers, is in its second year.

The Division of Academic Affairs honored five employees on October 21 with its Awards for Outstanding Commitment to Geneseo’s Values. Provost Stacey Robertson recognized recipients at the division’s annual Fall Festival where faculty and staff celebrated their colleagues’ accomplishments.