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Change in Perspective

A week before this past August’s “Great American Eclipse,” Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy Anne Pellerin gave a community talk about the event at Wadsworth Library in Geneseo. “There were 5-year-old kids, there were elderly people — all ages, just being excited about science,” says Pellerin. That energy carries her: “It’s what wakes me up in the morning, and is really why I’m doing that job as a teacher. I want to share the excitement.”

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How to Spike

Hunter Drews knows volleyball.

Growing up the daughter of a coach, the first-year Geneseo women’s volleyball head coach literally had a front-row seat for how to achieve at a high level in a sport most people play either in their backyards or on a beach.

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Acting Up

When William Sadler was acting in a high school play in Orchard Park, N.Y., the director asked him what he wanted to do with his life. “I didn’t know what I wanted to be,” he recalled. “I was a newbie, and this was a brave new world. But acting was interesting.” The play was about a young veteran who was confronting an alcoholic father. Sadler felt the complexity and the power of emotions and fragility of relationships that were brought to life on stage.

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Building Schools, Building Futures

Jeanine Lupisella ’87/MS ’92 was at a point in her life when she was in a hurry to help. As a middle school principal in the Honeoye Falls-Lima district south of Rochester, N.Y., she had planned to travel to a developing country to help promote literacy — after retirement. Then, in 2011, she found herself going to a lot of funerals, sometimes for people of her generation.

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Seeing the Light

Everyone knows about Geneseo sunsets: Many evenings, nature’s show is the best show in town. While most students and visitors watch from the gazebo, some students have a secret advantage to viewing the oranges and pinks over the valley — from their rooms. Scott Williams ’20, a political science and geography major, has one of those rooms. When selecting where he was going to live, this perk was something he never anticipated at Genesee Residence Hall.

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Video: Nature’s Canvas

For 27 years, the Roemer Arborteum has been both a quiet place to appreciate the wild and a natural classroom, where students and faculty conduct research on topics from ant colonies to monitoring how human impact on songbird habitat affects the birds’ behavior. The 20-acre reserve is home to 70 species of trees, shrubs and plants and was a gift from the college by the late Spencer J. Roemer, emeritus dean of admissions, who created an endowment so it will be forever wild.

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Novel Ideas

James Patterson, The best-selling author and philanthropist, has sold more than 300 million copies of his books, including his well-known Alex Cross and Maximum Ride series as well as numerous stand-alone thrillers, and he shows no sign of curtailing his prolific writing schedule.

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Sweet Relief

For Melissa “Marsh” Megliola ’02, Christmastime as a child meant visiting her grandmother and indulging in her fresh-baked Italian cookies. In 2011, Megliola started selling the holiday delicacies she grew up with, launching Sweet Treats by Melissa from her Denver home. Two years later, she started creating custom sugar cookies in unique shapes and with custom decoration for children’s birthday parties, baby showers and holiday events.   For making the perfect holiday cookie, Megliola likes to change her designs each year. Her favorites from last year were snowflakes, mittens, penguins and snowmen, decorated with her own royal icing recipe. Regardless of the design you choose, Megliola advises bakers: “A perfect holiday cookie should just be made with love.”

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