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Professor Behrend presenting at Teachers' Day

SUNY Geneseo Expands Teacher Professional Development Days

MacVittie Union (SUNY Geneseo/Matt Burkhartt) SUNY Geneseo has recently expanded professional development opportunities for local K–12 teachers. The annual Teachers’ Day events have drawn participants from Albany to Buffalo for faculty-led workshops on both content and pedagogy, both what to teach and how to teach it. “The history department has been doing this for more than 10

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Mark Moroz '27 uses a pen in dipped ink to create an illustration of a tree.

Exhibition Highlights Art and Uses of Native Trees

Mark Moroz ’27 created illustrations of native trees for the interdisciplinary exhibition. (SUNY Geneseo/ Matt Burkhartt) Native Trees of the Genesee Valley, a new exhibition at SUNY Geneseo, celebrates native species seen on and near campus. The display is an interdisciplinary collaboration between the departments of geography and sustainability studies, biology, English and creative writing, and Milne Library in support

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Justice statue with mortarboard, gavel, and books

Geneseo Prepares Many Grads for Law Careers

Photo by LightFieldStudios via Envato Nearly 40 percent of Geneseo alums who went on to complete a doctoral degree did so in law, according to recent data from the National Student Clearinghouse. The report covers alums from Spring 2014 through Summer 2023. “In addition, roughly a third of those alums who earned a JD were political science majors at Geneseo,”

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Students working around a table on literary magazine

English Students Produce Biannual Literary Magazine

English students review past issues of “Gandy Dancer.” / Photo by Keith Walters ’11 Putting together a literary magazine is no small feat. It involves posting calls for submissions, reviewing each piece that comes in, deciding what makes the cut—which can involve heated debates—sending feedback to authors, copyediting, designing, proofreading, printing, distributing, and marketing. Students

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Samson’s Ransom

Associate professor of English, Sam Fallon (SUNY Geneseo/Matt Burkhartt) Author Samuel Fallon Publication Milton Studies (2025) Abstract Milton’s worldly, prosaic Manoa has won few admirers, and his plot to ransom Samson in Samson Agonistes often elicits puzzlement. This essay situates Manoa in relation to the soteriological anxieties that Milton’s tragedy explores. Drawing on Freud’s psychoanalytic

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