D. Jeffrey Over, professor of geological sciences, has won a highly competitive 2022–23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and will spend Fall 2022 at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Over’s grant brings to 13 the number of Fulbright or Fulbright-Hayes awards Geneseo faculty members have received in the past ten years.
SUNY Geneseo's library has reclaimed the old pool in Schrader Hall as a satellite storage facility for the print book collection. Transporting the collection was a lengthy collaborative undertaking for library staff and Facilities Planning and Construction.
Biophysics major Emma Parker ’24, geological sciences major Kaitlyn Gerstler ’23, and physics and sustainability studies double major Kayla Andersen ’24 have been awarded internship scholarships to do research this summer in Germany.
Brandon Perez '23, a history major from the Bronx, NY, has won a 2022–23 Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) Gateway International Group Scholarship to help fund his Fall 2022 semester study abroad to Rikkyo University in Japan. FEA provides scholarships for international experiences to students who are underrepresented among the U.S. study abroad population.
Michael Hughes ’20 has won a 2022–23 U.S. Student Fulbright Austria Community-Based Combined Award to serve in Vienna as an English Teaching Assistant and work as a counselor and mentor with a community-based non-profit youth organization. Hughes will also take German language and internationally based NGO and public policy classes at the University of Vienna.
The Department of Philosophy is offering a new minor starting in the Fall 2022 semester. The interdisciplinary ethics and values in society minor includes foundational coursework in philosophy, topical course choices from more than a dozen disciplines, and a student capstone experience.
Oberlin College geologist Amanda Schmidt, Ph.D. will deliver this year’s American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall room 214 on the SUNY Geneseo campus. Schmidt’s talk, “People, Erosion, and Chemistry: Tracking the Effects of People on Watershed Process in China and Cuba,” is free and open to the public.
Four undergraduate physics students will deliver presentations at the American Physical Society’s in-person annual meeting this April. Their work is based on research by Professor Savi Iyer and Assistant Professor Thomas Osburn from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Osburn will also present his research.
The School of Business is introducing a new data analytics major for undergraduate students interested in the science of identifying trends and patterns in raw data and drawing conclusions.