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

For the seventh time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings among regional universities in the north in its just-published “Best Colleges 2018” guide. Geneseo has ranked first in that category for seven of the eight years “U.S. News” has included it in its annual rankings.

More SUNY Geneseo students will benefit from the renewal of a scholarship program that best-selling author James Patterson created in 2013 at the college’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education. Patterson has donated $90,000 to the James Patterson Teacher Education Scholarship Fund at Geneseo to provide new scholarships of $6,000 for eligible incoming freshmen, first-year graduate students, and five renewal scholarships for seniors who have been receiving Patterson scholarships annually since the second year of the Patterson Scholarship program at SUNY Geneseo.

College Senate Chair Duane McPherson is accepting nominations from faculty, students and staff for several Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence and for Distinguished Professorships.

Professor Michael Leroy Oberg’s revised textbook, “Native America: A History, Second Edition,” hit college bookstore shelves just in time for the new academic year. Oberg, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of history at Geneseo, says that the new edition includes expanded discussions on the law and native history since World War II.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan, will deliver a lecture on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971. Her talk, “The Attica Prison Uprising and Why It Matters Today,” will occur on the 46th anniversary of the uprising, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m. in Newton Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

SUNY Geneseo strongly endorses the position of SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall and Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson in their call to support the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Indeed, the College has consistently and publicly advocated for this vital program, in partnership with the American Council on Education and other higher education institutions.

Student explorers share their award-winning photographs — and life-changing moments — from when they studied abroad.

This summer, 26 students explored health, environment, education and economics for four weeks this summer, all across Ghana. Two courses worked together in the African country — Global Health Issues (biology) and for the first time, Global Development in Ghana (sociology) — drawing on a longtime Geneseo partnership with organizations and leaders.

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.

Randy French ’83, a science teacher at Geneseo Central School, also journeyed to Antarctica last year, made possible by a Grosvenor Teaching Fellowship from the National Geographic Society.

An event coordinated by a student ambassador in the college’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery & Development (CIDD) will help introduce new students to Geneseo’s Main Street.

Infrastructure improvements got underway this summer as part of a $10M project to upgrade electrical, telecommunications, heating, water and sewer lines on campus.

"Washington Monthly" magazine has ranked SUNY Geneseo first overall on its list of 632 master’s universities in the nation for its contributions to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research and service.

New and returning students and faculty are settling in for the start of the 2017-18 academic year as classes started today.

Geneseo is ranked 14th nationwide for alumni currently serving in the Peace Corps. We explore why so many make the leap and the difference they make.

Both new and returning students and faculty are beginning to arrive on the SUNY Geneseo campus in preparation for the start of the 2017-18 school year with classes beginning Aug. 28. Move-in Day is Aug. 25, when most new students arrive on campus and settle into their residence halls.

Last summer, Campus Auxiliary Services First-Time Study Abroad scholarship recipient Justen Geddes ’18 explored history and challenges and culture of African diaspora in Brazil. It was the first time he had been outside of the United States.
It changed his outlook, and his future.

My name is Ray Rizzo and I am a Peace Corps volunteer. This is the first time I have actually said (or typed) that in English! I have the privilege of serving my two-year Peace Corps service in San Sebastián de Yalí, Jinotega, Nicaragua, a town of approximately 27,000 people who reside in rural communities.

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the just-published 2018 edition of its annual flagship college guide, "The Best 382 Colleges." About 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two colleges outside of the United States are profiled in the book. SUNY Geneseo has consistently been on the list for a number of years.

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.

SUNY Geneseo’s summer learning program for elementary school students in rural areas is in its sixth year and Program Director Annmarie Urso continues to be pleased with the educational and social progress the students make.

Here's today's Final Jeopardy! answer: This SUNY Geneseo alumnus amassed five straight wins and $112,000 in winnings on a popular nationally syndicated game show.
The correct question is: Who is Justin Vossler ’11?

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).

This summer, Annie Renaud ’19 and Alex McGrath ’17 are living with host families in Russia, immersed in the culture, history and language.

They are recipients of Critical Language Scholarships given by the U.S. State Department, for undergraduates to study 14 languages deemed critical to national security and competitiveness.