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Ten SUNY Geneseo students are serving as ambassadors in the College’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) for the 2017-18 school year.

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Gerard Floriano '84, professor and chair of the Department of Music, will conduct the season’s first Geneseo Symphony Orchestra Concert Oct. 15, featuring works of Antonin Dvorak and Aaron Copland.

Four SUNY Geneseo students will be among more than 1,100 students from around the world who will attend the Clinton Global Initiative University’s (CGI U) 10th annual meeting and work on action plans later this month at Northeastern University.

Geneseo’s 18th annual Cultural Harmony Week opens on Oct. 15 with a lineup of programs, activities and panel discussions. Under the theme of “Home and Away: Experiences of Trauma & Hope,” the observance will explore the many battles we face at home and around the world as we move toward understanding loss, recovery and  peace.

On stage, Alex MacDonald ’08 is a musician. His sliding, thumping and stepping feet are instruments. His free-flow tap is rooted in improvisation, complementing the notes, not choreographed for them.

Ron Herzman, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English at Geneseo, has received the College’s first Faculty Career Achievement Award.

October is Sustainability Month and the College and campus community is hosting a variety of lectures, workshops and hands-on events to raise awareness, spark discussion and promote personal involvement.
On Wednesday, Oct. 4, David O. Carpenter will present the President’s Sustainability Lecture, “Is the Human Race Sustainable After the Age of Chemicals?”

SUNY Geneseo will host close to 100 area teachers on Monday, Oct. 9, as part of the first New York Teachers Summit. The event, organized by the SUNY System, is an extension of the TeachNY program, which aims to elevate and support the teaching profession.

Alexis Leslie, a sophomore from Buffalo, N.Y., is in a study abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa this semester, thanks to a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship she recently earned. She is the 19th Geneseo student to win this State Department award since 2010 and the 21st overall.

The SUNY Geneseo Cultivating Community series returns this fall under the guidance of Associate Professor of Communication Meredith Harrigan and Interim Chief Diversity Officer (CDO) robbie routenberg.

SUNY Geneseo will host the “Roc Your Global Future: Lessons from Abroad Rochester Area Study Abroad Returnee Conference” on Saturday, Sept. 30. Recent returnees from study abroad experiences will learn about how to understand their time abroad and how to become a more effective global citizen.

Vincent Markowski, an associate professor of psychology, was recently awarded a nearly $400,000 research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Markowski will use the three-year grant to study the cognitive effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug most commonly found in marijuana.

Geneseo graduates Kiaya Rose Dilsner-Lopez '17 and Patrick McCormick ’15 have been awarded U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) awards to Brazil for 2018.

President Denise A. Battles has been elected vice chair/chair-elect of the American Council on Education’s Council of Fellows. The Council comprises alumni of the ACE Fellows Program, which is regarded as the country’s premier higher education leadership development experience, preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities.

For the first time, SUNY Geneseo will host a combined Homecoming and Family Weekend, Sept. 22 –23. Over 1,600 alumni and parents have registered for the event. See the story for a highlights list of events

Maria Lima, professor of English and director of the college’s Comparative Literature Program, will deliver the James and Julia Lockhart Supported Professorship Lecture Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. in Doty Hall 300 (the Tower Room). Lima’s lecture title is “Reclaiming the Human: From the Bildungsroman to Neo-Slave Narratives.”

Patrick Buckley ’19, will launch his Discovery Cafe with three free public events this fall. The first talk, “A Series of Discrepant Events: Some Physics in Action,” presented by Kurt Fletcher, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Physics & Astronomy, will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Wadsworth Library on Center St., Geneseo.

Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the 2017 Walter Harding Lecture Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium on the SUNY Geneseo campus.

As a participant of the U.N. Global Compact, SUNY Geneseo has joined world leaders at the United Nations in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

David O. Carpenter will deliver “Is the human race sustainable after the age chemicals?” on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 2:30 p.m. in Newton Hall on the Geneseo campus. It is free and open to the public.

Geneseo students and faculty will offer a day of free entertainment at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Lyric Theatre at 440 East Ave. in Rochester, performances will include music, artwork and spoken word.

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

Bonadonna has made the elimination of the virus her personal mission, leading education and advocacy efforts for polio eradication for hundreds of members in Virginia. She has also traveled to Nigeria once and to India seven times to inoculate children. This coming spring, she’s off to Ethiopia.

Monday, September 18th is Constitution Day. In honor of the day, Geneseo is hosting a special deliberative dialog discussion, "Political Fix--How Should We Get American Politics Back on Track?” Advance registration, which is required, closes on Friday, Sept. 15 at noon. Students are eligible for Silver or Diamond credit.