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.
“Wineries hire chemists,” a California friend of Andy Robinson ’99 told him in 2001. “Why don’t you come out here to work a grape harvest?” Robinson, a graduate of SUNY Geneseo and Columbia University’s 3+2 program in chemical engineering, was between jobs and applying to grad schools—unsure what he wanted to do with his degree but sure he didn’t want to work for the oil or pharmaceutical industries. Why not try a winery, he thought.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies proudly presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble concert In Clear Sight featuring performances by Dance Studies faculty guest artist and student choreographers with 33 performers. The concert, artistically directed, curated, and produced by professor of dance studies Jonette Lancos, will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre on March 3–5, at 7:30 p.m., and March 6 at 2 p.m.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Music & Musical Theatre will welcome composer-in-residence Jocelyn Hagen on February 15–17. In addition, her commission of a new choral work in honor of the college’s 150th anniversary will receive its world premiere by the Geneseo Chamber Singers on March 6 at Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo.
SUNY Geneseo welcomes CNN political commentator and New York Times best-selling author Keith Boykin, who will deliver the keynote address at this year’s Diversity Summit. This year’s theme is “Our journey from inclusion to belonging.” The day-long summit, part of the college's 150th anniversary celebration, takes place on Wednesday, February 16.
SUNY Geneseo's library is home to specialized faculty—subject librarians—who offer students a wide array of educational support. Understanding what they do and how to access their services can make a project or research paper less daunting and stressful.
SUNY Geneseo has received an award of $210,132 from the National Science Foundation’s Major Research Instrumentation program for the chemistry department to purchase a three-dimensional Raman imaging system.
The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation (RDLGF) has awarded SUNY distinguished professor of history Michael Leroy Oberg, the SUNY Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History, and a consortium of six other colleges and universities a three-year grant of more than $300K for The Gardiner Foundation Semiquincentennial Student Fellowship Program. SUNY Geneseo and several of the institutions in the fellowship program have committed $150K of matching funds for the project, bringing the total to over $450K.
An institutional record number of six SUNY Geneseo students have so far won Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships in the 2021–22 national competition: Isabelle Covert ’23 (Iceland), Gaetan Jean Louis ’25 (Senegal), Jarrett Marrapese ’23 (Japan), Trystan Melas ’23 (Austria), Sara Ortiz ’24 (South Korea), and Riddhi Patel ’24 (South Korea). Since 2007, 37 Geneseo students have won Gilman scholarships.
SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business is now offering a finance major as well as new minors in entrepreneurship and human resource management. The degrees, open to current business students, will be available to incoming first-year students beginning Fall 2022.