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All five student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program are advancing to the NYS Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28.

Two Geneseo seniors, a graduate student and an alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Fulbright Scholarships for 2017-18 to participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program. Another student was selected as an alternate.

The State University of New York at Geneseo will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by the college’s faculty. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

Two SUNY Geneseo students have received prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2017. Juniors Jeffrey Doser, a biology/mathematics double major from Penfield, N.Y., and Lara Finnerty-Haggerty, a biology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., were among the 240 recipients.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

Senior Nick Duran embraces his multiple passions through leadership roles, on and off the SUNY Geneseo campus.

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melanie Medeiros is getting ready to celebrate the release of her book, Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship.

Every year in early March, while experts in the field of sustainable energy begin to flock to Austria for the annual World Sustainable Energy Days conference, students around the world are hard at work conducting sustainable research projects of their own. Last summer, Aidan Murphy, a senior math major, had the opportunity to work on a project at Geneseo’s own environmental research facility known as the eGarden.

At the National Institutes of Health, Greg Roloff ’12 analyzes blood samples of patients with leukemia that persists after cancer treatment — at levels below detection.

The Jewish Foundation for the Education of Women (JFEW) announced it is extending the SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program, which offers a 2-year support package for SUNY women preparing for careers in international relations.

On Wednesday, March 1, from 2:30 p.m. to 3:45 p.m. in Newton 202, there is an information session for faculty, students and staff who may be interested in teaching, learning, conducting research or contributing their time to a project in the park.

Two Geneseo associate professors of physics James McLean and George Marcus applied for and received a $200,680 three-year Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) grant from the National Science Foundation.
Their award led to the creation of a new summer program, known as SURGE, Supporting Undergraduate Research at Geneseo.

The PRR is required to fulfill Middle States accreditation requirements. Through the planning and leadership of co-chairs Cathy Adams, associate professor of history, and Ken Kallio, interim associate provost for personnel and diversity, the college is on schedule to complete its PRR by June 1.

Geneseo College Council member, retired educator and Geneseo alumna Iris Banister ’70 will deliver the keynote address at the ninth annual Women in Leadership Conference on March 1 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

Nicholas Warner, assistant professor of geology, is among planetary geologists in California this week presenting evidence to NASA scientists on the best Mars landing sites for the next rover mission, scheduled to launch in 2020.

Thomas MacPherson, professor in studio art, recently released a remarkable, art-filled book entitled "Crossing Cultures: A Sicilian and American Family in Western New York."

The first week of classes is also Inauguration Week and students, faculty and administrators from the college as well as members of the community have been presenting public readings this week of a variety of key historical democratic documents.

SUNY Geneseo’s "Day of Leadership and Service" celebrated the work and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. today with a series of inter-generational and interfaith discussions, workshops, and community outreach projects.

The SUNY Geneseo Music Department’s opening production this semester will be the local premiere of “Carrie, the Musical,” coming to the Wadsworth Auditorium stage Jan. 18-22. The first four performances begin at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday matinee begins at 2 o’clock.

Spring semester classes begin at SUNY Geneseo Jan. 17, and the college has scheduled several Inauguration Day-related events prior to the presidential swearing-in ceremony Jan. 20.