Geneseo has completed its most ambitious comprehensive campaign ever. /Photo by Keith Walters ’11 Thank you to the thousands of people who will help transform the student experience. By Kris Dreessen When SUNY Geneseo launched its boldest philanthropic initiative in history—Opportunities Rising: Geneseo for Generations—the bar was set high: raise $45 million to transform the
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Trent Makowiec ’25, Penelope Greene ’25, and Brynn Mooney ’26 are Geneseo’s newest national champs.
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A crew of Geneseo student-athletes are national champs and record-setters. By Kris Dreessen In March, the men’s indoor track and field team made Geneseo history with their wins at the NCAA Division III Indoor National Championships. The men’s distance medley relay (with a time of 9:48.39) and the men’s 4x400m relay (3:11.64) won national
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A biology professor and student researchers are discovering more about a species not documented in the United States until 2001. By Carol Marcy It looks like an ant you see on your deck railing or crawling across a leaf or down the stem of a plant. But it’s not an ant — it’s a
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Geneseo students help communities rediscover their past and celebrate their legacies. By Kris Dreessen Some of Rochester’s best-known buildings were designed by Thomas W. Boyde Jr., who made history himself as the city’s first African American architect. He helped plan Rundel Library beside the Genesee River, the ornate facades of Monroe Community Hospital, and dozens
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Ben Ludlow ’23 springboards his self-motivation and passion for teamwork into swim accolades and academics. By Kris Dreessen As a kid, Ben Ludlow ’23 returned empty bottles and soda cans and saved the nickels in a jar, using those nickels to open a savings account and CD. He was 8 years old and already saving
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Ben Ludlow ’23 has been saving for college since he was little. This spring, he graduates with a degree in accounting and a lot of experience in discipline for a passion and applying School of Business lessons into his own farm stand. Video by Mat Johnson (Read Ben’s QandA in the Scene.) Related Stories
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The Lavender Graduation celebrates those students and alumni who identify as LGBTQ+ on campus — and as part of the college’s affinity groups. By Carol Marcy The world was different when Marilyn Tedeschi ’68 was a student. Being in same-sex relationships was not accepted and coming out was difficult, she says. “If you go back
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As a student, David Levy ’94 was inspired by class discourse about life’s infinite questions. As a philosophy professor, he now inspires those same discussions. By Kris Dreessen David Levy ’94 enrolled at Geneseo with a much different career plan than his current position as associate professor and chair of philosophy. “I grew up watching
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Flexible giving supports students like Carley Salerno ’23. By Carol Marcy Kathy Acierno Baron ’83 was the first in her family to graduate college and is still a passionate supporter of SUNY Geneseo. Although she has created two endowed scholarships, the Excellence in Residence Life Leadership Annual Scholarship and The Acierno Family Scholarship, Baron also
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