News Archive

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has named Joe Leathersich ’14 to SUNY Geneseo’s College Council for a seven-year term.

At Healing Poem Farm, SUNY Geneseo grads Bari Zeiger ’16 and Sean Perry ’16 steward a small-acreage farm that yields nourishment for their community and the Earth.

An asteroid has been named after David Meisel, distinguished professor emeritus of physics and astronomy at SUNY Geneseo. Meisel passed away in August.

Discovery of three new species of fishes found in the deep sea recently made national news, and SUNY Geneseo students assisted in their official naming

Environmental scientist and sustainability expert Jonathan Foley, PhD, will deliver this year’s Campus Sustainability Lecture on Thursday, October 23, at 4 p.m. in Newton Hall 202 on the SUNY Geneseo campus.

Jessica Beneway '17, now a registered nurse, embraced Geneseo’s interdisciplinary liberal arts approach, graduating with a major in Spanish and minors in both biology and psychology.

For the 11th time in US News & World Report’s 16 years of college rankings, SUNY Geneseo has earned the #1 spot for Best Undergraduate Teaching in the Regional Universities—North category.

SUNY Geneseo’s director of the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC), Alexis Clifton, has been named a fellow of SUNY AI for the Public Good. Twenty SUNY faculty and staff have been selected for the inaugural class.

Melinda Treadwell Appointed 14th President of SUNY Geneseo

SUNY Geneseo and the University at Albany have formed a collaborative agreement providing students an accelerated opportunity to earn an MPA degree in public administration and policy.

An interdisciplinary team at SUNY Geneseo has been awarded a $366,670 grant from the National Science Foundation’s Enabling Partnerships to Increase Innovation Capacity (EPIIC) program.

Surveillance epidemiologists Sydney Alexander ’19, MPH, and Julia Tellerman ’20, MPH, both work with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Emerging Infections Program.

A team of researchers at SUNY Geneseo has led the description and naming of three newly discovered species of deep-sea fishes from the eastern Pacific Ocean.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of English and Creative Writing is launching a new minor and a menu of microcredentials designed to develop students' professional skills.

SUNY Geneseo School of Education assistant professor Peter Kalenda recently served as a consultant for a K-12 school district as it introduces artificial intelligence tools into its classrooms.

SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business has launched an online master’s in accounting program.

Washington Monthly selected SUNY Geneseo as one of only 25 colleges and universities in the United States as a Best-in-Class College.

Students, faculty, and staff marked the beginning of Fall 2025 at two campus convocations this week.

Nicholas Warner ’00, SUNY Geneseo associate professor of geological, environmental, and planetary sciences, was recently awarded a $307,000 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars Data Analysis Program.

The State University of New York has appointed Mary C. Toale, SUNY Geneseo’s Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs since March 2024, as the officer-in-charge at SUNY Geneseo, effective August 25.

New York Times best-selling novelist Jeff VanderMeer will deliver the 2025 Walter Harding Lecture at SUNY Geneseo.

SUNY Geneseo is included in Princeton Review's book The Best 391 Colleges: 2026 Edition and is named to their "Best Regional Colleges: Northeast" list.

Melanie Blood, PhD, has been appointed as SUNY Geneseo’s inaugural dean for workforce development and associate provost for curriculum.

SUNY Geneseo’s efforts to support first-generation college students have earned national recognition from FirstGen Forward, which recently welcomed the College into its 2025–26 cohort.

The Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society named SUNY Geneseo to its 2025 Transfer Honor Roll.