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.
SUNY Geneseo and the Village of Geneseo recently renewed the Geneseo Village-College Relations Compact. At the Community Chat on November 10, Geneseo Mayor Margaret Duff and SUNY Geneseo President Denise Battles jointly signed the amended compact, which represents a mutual commitment to the common good and the strong bond that exists between college and community.
The SUNY Geneseo College Library’s newly digitized James W. Kimball Traditional Music and Dance in New York State Collection is now accessible to researchers and the public. The collection of ethnomusicologist James Kimball documents traditional musicians of New York who specialized in the Eastern square dance tradition.
SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges, according to The Princeton Review Guide to Green Colleges: 2022 Edition.
One of Geneseo’s most popular majors is no major at all. “Undeclared” is consistently one of the top choices for incoming students. In fact, surveys show that as many as 50 percent of students nationwide enter college without a major, and an estimated 75 percent change their major at least once before graduation.
Geneseo director of admissions Christie Torruella Smith has been named a fellow of SUNY’s 2022 Hispanic Leadership Institute.
Ten faculty and staff from six campuses have been selected as the 2022 class fellows. The HLI is charged with developing and supporting the next generation of Hispanic/Latinx leaders across the SUNY system.
SUNY Geneseo associate professor of psychology Jason Ozubko is the first author on a recent paper that looks at a type of memory glitch we’ve all experienced. The glitch the researchers studied is called a “recognition failure of recalling words” or simply a “recognition failure.” It’s when you can come up with a word—like the name of a restaurant you’re struggling to remember—without being sure that the name you just blurted out is the correct name.
Michael Leroy Oberg, SUNY distinguished professor of history, has been awarded an NEH American Rescue Plan: Humanities Organizations grant for Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History.