Geneseo minds are solving today’s problems to create tomorrow’s opportunities. By Denise A. Battles Familiar sayings are often variations of someone’s original words. On May 25, 1946, the New York Times reported that Albert Einstein sent a telegram to several hundred prominent Americans under the headline, “Scientist in plea for $200,000 to promote new type […]
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Mark Fratto ’99 revs up the crowd at national sporting events and is an innovator of college sports coverage. By Carol Marcy During his high school days, Mark Fratto ’99 was an aspiring point guard who couldn’t dribble well left-handed, and he realized he should cancel his plans to try out for junior varsity basketball.
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Artist Steve Prince and students create art that asks how we want to live together. By Robyn Rime Poverty. War. Greed. Love. Beauty. Music. A community art project in Geneseo’s Kinetic Gallery last winter tackled powerful 21st-century problems and proposed solutions in a collaborative piece that brought together students to create art and generate meaningful
As the Eddie Lee ’76 First Generation Ambassador, Pema Sherpa ’19 spent the fall semester in her native Nepal, shadowing pediatric doctors to learn about medicine and the challenges of providing health care in underserved areas. She was inspired to help while there. She collaborated with the doctors to provide no-cost eye exams to more
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Little is still known about the Red Planet, but faculty, students and alumni are conquering the great space unknown. By David Irwin We Earthlings have long been captivated by what occupies the unfathomable vastness of our universe, now with a diameter we can see of about 93 billion light years. In our own solar system
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Alumni and faculty members make important contributions toward addressing needs in healthcare, community development and energy. Story by Merrill Douglas Some people say that every problem is really an opportunity and wrestling with a problem provides the opportunity to make tangible differences for good. While no individual alone can cure a disease or shrink humanity’s carbon
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Working with the National Geographic Society, I have turned my passion for animals into my purpose. Follow Tara Keir on Instagram: @tarankeir By Tara Keir ’14 If you are lucky in life, you find something you love. If you are even luckier, passion will find you. And if you are me, it will hit you
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A Professor’s research on how pharmaceuticals interact with our biomolecules may lead to less toxic treatments. Story by Gabrielle Ciraco Pharmaceuticals are often necessary in the fight against cancer. But targeting cancer cells has a harsh impact on other cells in the human body, often leading to side effects such as infertility, hair loss and digestive problems.
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Geneseo’s student-led composting program finished the academic year with nearly 7,000 pounds of collected food scraps, paper towels, and other material — as much as the combined weight of two mid-size cars.
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Four albumen photographs from SUNY Geneseo’s Milne Library Special Collections appear in the National Gallery of Art exhibition The American Pre-Raphaelites: Radical Realists, on display in Washington, DC, now through July 21.
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