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The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College in 2023.
Geneseo is among 209 outstanding institutions chosen for the designation, based on a combination of institutional and student survey data, including academics, affordability, and career outcomes of graduates.

Move aside smartphones. Some students are choosing to go back in time over the immediacy of digital images and social media.

A four-member team of students from Geneseo’s School of Business has won the Third Annual FDIC Academic Challenge.

Michelly Meza-Benitez ’23 is one of 46 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program to receive the 2023 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence.

Meet Shayda Ramsammy ’25, a musical theatre major.

Josephine "Jo" Lewis '23 and Rocio Ruiz '23 have received the 2023 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence for their academic and extracurricular successes and leadership.

Bryan Gilman-Orozco ’23, a Spanish major from Hudson, MA, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant award to Colombia.

The Office of Sustainability and members from more than five student organizations are spearheading activities for a week of events in celebration of Earth Day, April 22.

High-energy-density physicist Danae Polsin ’13 and professor of physics Stephen Padalino explain experiments that recently harnessed the same energy produced by the sun and stars — and what it may mean for the future of energy.

Barnabas Gikonyo, director of introductory chemistry labs and lecturer at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious 2023 Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Minority Affairs.

Curiosity inspired Holly Nicole Kandel ’16 to move to Senegal. She built a career in Africa, advocating for health and community development.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles first saw the Bhangra student club perform during her early days on campus — and wanted to try it.

Geneseo’s Student Managed Investment Fund provides real money for students to learn about investing first hand.

Educator Derinda McKinstry MSEd '17 will speak at SUNY Geneseo's master's degree commencement May 12.

SUNY Geneseo will award an honorary degree at its undergraduate commencement ceremony on May 20 to alum Molly Smith Metzler ’00.

Julia Grunes ’23, an English (creative writing) and psychology double major from Monroe, NY, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright award to Israel.

SUNY Geneseo is designated a “Voter Friendly Campus” for 2023–24 through a program sponsored by the Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project.

Cora Woloson ’23 has won a Critical Language Scholarship award to study Hindi during Summer 2023 in Jaipur, India, at the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Rocio Ruiz ’23 is a communication major from Freeport, NY. Watch this video to learn more about her Geneseo experience.

State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr., EdD, will address SUNY Geneseo’s undergraduate Commencement ceremonies this year on Saturday, May 20.

A  biology professor and student researchers are discovering more about a species not documented in the United States until 2001.

SUNY Geneseo has hired a recent alum as its first sustainability fellow to help the college’s sustainability efforts and guide sustainability interns in expanding their work. 

SUNY Geneseo recently invited students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, prompted by their recent election by faculty members of the college’s chapter.

Emma Belica '24 is a dual biology and sustainability studies major from Buffalo, NY.

Geneseo’s director of creative writing Kristen Gentry on writing — and revising — what you know.