News Archive

Scott Ewanow ’06 has been appointed chief of the University Police Department (UPD) at SUNY Geneseo.

SUNY Geneseo hosted its largest alumni reunion weekend earlier this month. The College welcomed 1,800 alums and friends back to campus for two days of events.

SUNY Geneseo has named Dani Drews as its next director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. She will begin in this role on July 7.

The Geneseo Foundation and SUNY Geneseo recognized three donors for their exceptional generosity and support of the College at Donors of Distinction ceremonies in April.

On Saturday, May 22, SUNY Geneseo held its 156th commencement with students and families attending in person for the first time in three years.

Michael Kleinlercher ’22 and Jarrett Marrapese ’23 will spend the 2022–23 academic year in Japan after winning nationally competitive awards.

The State University of New York (SUNY) Faculty Senate presented SUNY Geneseo with its Shared Governance Award for academic year 2021–22.

Three Geneseo students will study abroad this summer in Ghana after winning Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships during the 2022–23 national competition.

Each semester, SUNY Geneseo produces Gandy Dancer, a student-run literary journal filled with fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art from students across the 64-campus SUNY system.

The Geneseo Tempestry group uses crafting to create colorful, tactile visualizations of climate change over time.

This fall, SUNY Geneseo will introduce Geneseo Education for a Connected World, an undergraduate curriculum designed to prepare all students for success in the 21st century.

Isabel Owen ’19 has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Brazil.

Planting a food forest on campus, exploring issues of hunger and vaccination, and designing a literature-based curriculum for public schools that represents students of color are among several inquiries the 2022 Geneseo Student Ambassadors will make.

Three SUNY Geneseo students have received the 2022 Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence: Catherine Grossman '22, Morgan Michalski '22, and Luis Yanez Zamora '22.

​​​​​​​Three staff members were recently recognized with the inaugural Advancing Our Institutional Mission (AIM) awards for their dedication to the college’s mission and for exemplifying the SUNY Geneseo spirit.

The Princeton Review has again named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College, based on a combination of institutional and student survey data, including academic rigor, affordability, and career outcomes for graduates, among others.

Sarah Fadlaoui ’22, from Ellicott City, MD, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Germany.

In a new article published in the Journal of Biogeography, geographer Associate Professor Stephen Tulowiecki and four undergraduate researchers examined the influence of Native American land use on the composition of historic forests in the Northeastern United States.

​​​​​​​Over 100 students are expected to travel abroad on SUNY Geneseo Study Abroad programs in summer 2022. 

Kallie Swyer ’17, from Guilderland, NY, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright Study/Research Award in creative writing for Lithuania.

Syndou Cisse ’22 is one of 45 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) to receive the 2022 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding EOP students for their academic achievements and overcoming personal obstacles throughout their lives

Harry Harkins ’21 has received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) Fellowship for 2022–23.

SUNY Geneseo was recently named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s Transfer Honor Roll in recognition of the dynamic pathways the College has created to support transfer students.

Jeffrey Over, professor of geological sciences, has won a 2022–23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award to spend Fall 2022 in the Czech Republic.

Geneseo’s School of Business has received extension of its business accreditation from the AACSB International (AACSB), the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. 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 16,000 business schools.