A four-member team of students from SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business won the inaugural Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation FDIC Academic Challenge, a national competition among university and college students concerning the U.S. banking sector.

SUNY Geneseo has been named one of the 200 Best Value Colleges for 2021 for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation at an affordable price.

Geneseo seniors Awab Shakat and Sakura Hamazaki have been chosen for the 2021 SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence in recognition of their outstanding achievements that have demonstrated the integration of SUNY excellence within their lives, including academics, leadership, campus involvement, community service, or the arts.

Umoja House, a new living-learning community (LLC) for students of diverse backgrounds, opened in the Fall 2021 semester. Named after unity, the first principle of Kwanzaa, Umoja House will create an intellectually engaging, encouraging environment where students can celebrate their identities while also nurturing their leadership skills.

"Personal relationships matter,” says Meredith Harrigan, professor of communication at SUNY Geneseo. A new study by Harrigan and five Geneseo undergraduates published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research found that college students are preparing for the future by investing in relationships and leveraging the “fear of missing out,” or FoMO, as a reminder to seize the day.

Katherine Treadgold '23, a double major in international relations (concentration in global political economy) and geography, from Bethlehem, NY, has been named a Newman Civic Fellow for 2021–22.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble’s Dancing the Liberal Arts in Dancing Without Limits, featuring live and digital works by dance studies faculty and student choreographers with 25 performers.

For the fourth time in the college’s history and the fourth consecutive year, SUNY Geneseo has been named a Top Producer of U.S. Student Fulbright awards, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced in its annual article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.

Now in its 21st year, the Geneseo Opportunities for Leadership Development (GOLD) program is expanding its offerings to include a new certificate.

SUNY Geneseo student Tshering Sherpa ’21 was one of 45 students in SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) to receive the Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for Student Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding EOP students for their academic achievements and overcoming personal obstacles throughout their lives.

Sherpa, who is double majoring in psychology and international relations and has a minor in Spanish, is a first-generation college student and plans to become a human rights lawyer.