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Political Science Professor Jeff Koch will join USAF Academy in Colorado Springs for a one-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor of political science.

Emily Rogers ’17 and SoJin Lee ’17 developed a friendship through the Speech Buddies program, where Emily helped SoJin hone her English skills.

It’s a typical spring morning at Sweet Arts Bakery on Main Street in Geneseo. Students, teachers and townspeople come and go: There’s laughter, there’s the clank of dishes, there’s conversation.
And with the noises as a backdrop, Glenn McClure ’86/MS.S.Ed ’11— composer, musician, humanities teacher, and adjunct lecturer in Geneseo’s English Department — talks of sounds and silence, thousands of miles away in Antarctica.

The opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in research has become an important part of Geneseo’s academic culture. Although many student participate in research during the academic year, summer is also a busy undergraduate research period for students. More than 60 students have been on campus this summer working in labs and elsewhere with their faculty mentors, thanks to support from the Geneseo Foundation in cooperation with the SUNY Research Council.

A recent visit to Lithuania’s Alytus College by Meredith Harrigan, associate professor of communication at SUNY Geneseo, has helped reinforce Geneseo’s involvement in globally networked learning (GNL).

Two SUNY Geneseo students were interviewed recently on the France 3 public television channel during their study abroad class’s visit to the Historial de la Grande Guerre (World War I museum) in Péronne, north of Paris.

Rising senior Kendon Bates ’18 presented his research earlier this summer at the International Disability Studies in Education (IDSE) conference in Minneapolis, Minn.

Barbara Welker, associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, is among recent authors for the Open SUNY Textbooks initiative.

Kevin Militello, professor of biology, has been awarded a grant of nearly $460,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award will, in part, help fund undergraduate researchers who will work in Militello’s lab looking for new drug targets in the parasite that causes African Sleeping Sickness.

The State University of New York is among 11 schools or systems in the nation selected to participate in the 2017-18 OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program to encourage use of free, peer-reviewed textbooks on campus. The SUNY application, submitted by SUNY OER Services at SUNY Geneseo on behalf of the system, was among 42 applications for the program.

Five SUNY Geneseo faculty members, two professional staff members and a member of the college’s classified services are among recipients of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence for the 2016-17 academic year. The system-wide honors recognize consistently superior professional achievement and encourages the ongoing pursuit of excellence.

Seven Geneseo students, three graduating seniors and four juniors, recently presented posters on their undergraduate research at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Chicago. The meeting was in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference.

New research by Suann Yang, assistant professor of biology, examines the interactions of mistletoe, a parasitic plant, host trees and two species of birds that disperse the mistletoe seeds.

James W. Ratigan, a 71-year-old retiree from Friendship, N.Y., is not one to remain idle. And now that he has a Geneseo bachelor’s degree in hand, it’s unlikely that idleness will ever be an issue.

SUNY Geneseo alumna Molly Smith Metzler made it clear to the graduates in the Class of 2017 today that life likely will not go the way they think it will but encouraged them to treat setbacks as “the stuff that will give you a wonderful and interesting life story, one that you get to write and star in.”

A childhood/special education major's class project on Earth Day resulted in a group of children learning about how recycling benefits the environment.

Four students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2017 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

SUNY Geneseo faculty member Douglas Owens has received a Fulbright German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award to attend the summer academy in Leipzig for U.S.-American faculty in German Studies.

Anne Pellerin, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Amber Charlebois, chemistry department lecturer, have received a Consortium for High Achievement and Success (CHAS) faculty grant of $6,500 for a pilot project to build a tiered mentoring program for undergraduate women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields at Geneseo.

Two faculty members in the Department of Geography have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimension of changes in oak forests in the eastern United States.

A SUNY Geneseo VentureWorks team won second place and two others received awards of recognition in the finals of the New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28. Geneseo’s teams were among 103 from 60 colleges and universities in the statewide competition.

Geneseo’s School of Business has received a five-year extension of its business accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Such accreditation by the AACSB International Board of Directors is the hallmark of excellence in business education and has been earned by less than five percent of the world’s business schools.

Two SUNY Geneseo students, senior Alex McGrath and sophomore Annie Renaud, have won highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship awards for Russian this year among a field of national candidates.

SUNY Geneseo students will be involved in a daylong campus celebration April 25 by presenting their creative and scholarly endeavors during the college’s 11th annual GREAT Day. For the first time since its inception, more than 1,000 students will showcase their work with presentations, performances and exhibits.

In the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how communities work.