News Archives
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Geneseo a Forbes Best Value College | SUNY Geneseo has been named to Forbes’ 2019 “America’s Best Value Colleges” list, ranking 115th on the comprehensive list of 300 public and private colleges, up from 175th when Forbes first began the ranking in 2016. The College ranks fifth out of the ten SUNY institutions on the list. |
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Janine Rossi ’18 and Kelsey Kwandrans ’19 Earn Fulbright Awards | Geneseo alumna Janine Rossi ’18 and Kelsey Kwandrans ’19 have won 2019–20 U.S. Student Fulbright awards to Uruguay and Spain respectively. Rossi and Kwandrans become the 28th and 29th Geneseo student or alumni to win a U.S. Student Fulbright award. |
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Tshering Sherpa ’21 Named Fund for Education Abroad Scholar | Tshering Sherpa ’21 has been named a Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) Scholar for 2019–20. She will travel to Cadiz, Spain, for six weeks to study Spanish at the Centro Superior de Lenguas Modernas (CSLM), a language school at the Universidad de Cádiz. |
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Catherine Shields ’19 Earns State Dept. Critical Language Scholarship | Catherine Shields '19 has won a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship. The Grandview Heights, NY, native will spend the summer in Baku, Azerbaijan, at the Azerbaijani University of Languages for an intensive eight-week course of university-level Turkish. |
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Documentary Highlights Professor’s Longtime Research on Indigenous Land Rights in Ecuador | Geneseo’s Department of Political Science and International Relations will present a special screening of the documentary “Who Speaks for Nature?" by Larry Engel on Friday, March 29, at 4:30 p.m. at the Riviera Theater in Geneseo. The documentary is based on a book co-authored by Geneseo Associate Professor Karleen West. |
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Students Explore Sustainability Issues Through Art | Students in a spring honors course, “The Politics of Sustainability Through Art,” are exploring environmental concerns and the politics that affect sustainability issues in a creative way. |
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Alumna to Share The Tales Teeth Tell | SUNY Geneseo is hosting biological anthropologist Tanya M. Smith ‘97, Ph.D., for a lecture based on her recent book, <i>The Tales Teeth Tell<i/>. Smith’s talk takes place at 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 2 in Newton 204. Smith’s talk will be followed by a book signing. Copies of her book will be available for sale. The event is free and open to the public. |
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Chemistry Grad Named to Forbes 30 Under 30 | Michael Ruggiero ’12, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont (UVM), was recently included in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science 2019 list. In this Q&A, he discusses his research and the excitement he gets from being in the lab. |
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Physics & Astronomy Receives APS Undergraduate Education Award | Geneseo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy is one of three undergraduate programs in the United States to earn the American Physical Society’s (APS) Award for Improving Undergraduate Physics Education for 2019. |
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Geneseo Partners with Cuba’s Universidad de Holguín | On January 11, SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Rectora C. Isabel Cristina Torres Torres of the Universidad de Holguín in Cuba signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU formally establishes a working partnership that will provide Geneseo students the opportunity to study at the Cuban institution and effectively demonstrates the College’s commitment to offering students global and cross-cultural experiences. |
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Oberg to Host Local History Workshop | SUNY Distinguished Professor Michael Leroy Oberg is hosting a workshop for nearly 60 local municipal historians on Saturday, Feb. 16. |
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Curricular Changes Show Success By Fourth Year | In a four-year study, Suann Yang, assistant professor of biology at SUNY Geneseo, and science faculty from other institutions found that student buy-in to a new curriculum increases with each successive undergraduate cohort — and learning gains did not suffer. |
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Evans Named SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor | Beverly J. Evans, professor of French and Western Humanities in Geneseo’s Department of Languages and Literatures, is among the latest cohort of 14 faculty members the State University of New York Board of Trustees has named to a distinguished professorship. |
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Academic Affairs Honors Commitment to Values | The Division of Academic Affairs recently honored five employees with its inaugural Academic Affairs Awards for Outstanding Commitment to Geneseo’s Values. |
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Geneseo Announces Online, Study Abroad Offerings for Reinvigorated Winter Intersession | The revised academic calendar for 2018–19 and beyond now includes the option for students to take courses over intersession. The 2018-19 intersession will have a range of offerings that include online courses. |
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Geneseo Tops U.S. News’ ‘Best Undergrad Teaching’ for 8th Time | SUNY Geneseo tops the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Undergraduate Teaching” rankings among regional universities in the North in its Best Colleges 2019 guidebook. The College also ranked second in the “Top Public Schools” category for regional universities in the North and is 14th in the overall regional category of 187 public and private institutions. |
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Milne Library Colleagues Launch OASIS | SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library recently developed and launched an innovative new search tool that can access 52 different OER sources that contain more than 150,000 items. OASIS (Openly Available Sources Integrated Search), was co-developed by Ben Rawlins, director of Milne Library, and Bill Jones, digital resources and systems librarian at SUNY Geneseo. |
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Geneseo Identified as a Top Public Institution for Four-Year Graduation Rate | SUNY Geneseo was identified by the Chronicle of Higher Education as a public institution with one of the best four-year graduation rates. |
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New ‘Handshake’ System Expanding Career Development’s Reach | SUNY Geneseo’s Career Design Center has implemented a new career management system that greatly enhances the department’s ability to manage job and internship postings, run career fairs and track student usage. |
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Women's and Gender Studies Graduates Make History | Commencement is always a time to celebrate, but this year, Terese Caiazza ’18 and Tanairi Taylor’ 18 will make College history, becoming the first to graduate with a major in women’s and gender studies. |
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SUNY Geneseo Welcomes First Group of McNair Scholars | A group of 25 rising juniors and seniors have become the first SUNY Geneseo students to enter the McNair Scholars Program, designed to prepare undergraduate students for doctoral studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities. |
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Academic Affairs Team Addressing Student Retention | "WIG" is a new initiative to improve student retention rates within the Division of Academic Affairs’ Office of the Provost. “We’ve only been at this for one semester, but already we’re speaking a common language and building a culture that will allow us to not only do our best work within the whirlwind, but in spite of it," says Provost Stacey Robertson. "It’s not an ‘either/or’ choice: We’re very confident that we will achieve our Widely Important Goal and increase retention.” |
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Geneseo Wins a First Place Award in State Business Plan Competition Finals | A student team from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program won first place in the advanced technology track in the finals of the ninth annual New York State Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) April 27 in Albany. |
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Shauna Ricketts ’18 Receives Fulbright Award to Bulgaria | Aspiring film producer Shauna Ricketts ’18 fell in love with the art and educational power of documentaries while studying abroad during the spring 2017 semester in Southeast Asia at Thailand’s Mahidol University. Ricketts will have an opportunity to continue her cultural education abroad in September when she begins her year as a 2018-19 U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) in Bulgaria. |
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Sarah Phillips ’18 Receives Fulbright Award to Colombia | For Sarah Phillips ’18, winning a U.S. Student Fulbright award to Colombia as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) means infinitely more than just being given the opportunity to represent her country, travel, and teach. She will have a chance to share the gift of potentially life-changing language abilities that so many of the world’s citizens are never afforded. |