Frank Csapo, owner of the Ambassador Apartments in Geneseo, NY, and longtime supporter of the College, has made a $100,000 gift to establish the Csapo Family Endowment. The endowment will provide support for student engagement and high-impact practices with the intent to develop, expand, and facilitate educational programs and experiences for Geneseo students.
Geneseo’s successful enhanced intersession term is expanded this year with additional offerings of online and study abroad courses for winter break. The term, which runs December 30, 2019–January 21, 2020, allows students to earn credits in the interval between fall and spring terms.
Thirteen SUNY Geneseo students are Presidential Scholars for the 2019–20 academic year, representing a variety of academic areas and exemplifying the college's institutional values. A presidential scholar is a top-achieving member of the senior class who also serves as an ambassador for the College.
This summer, the Geneseo community welcomed a wide variety of visitors to campus, from fans of WWII aircraft to youth soccer enthusiasts, for events ranging from reunions to orientations. Nearly 9,000 people attended events or took part in activities held in college facilities, bringing to the greater Geneseo area tourist revenue and an economic impact of approximately $132,000.
In college events and activities:
• The SUNY Geneseo Summer Reunion drew nearly 750 alumni.
In a recent article in Annals of the American Association of Geographers, geographers from the State University of New York (SUNY) found that Native American land use—in particular, the use of fire—was critical in shaping the distribution of oak savannas in Western New York at the end of the 1700s.
The National Science Foundation’s Division of Astronomical Sciences has awarded a $166,212 grant to SUNY Geneseo to support a collaborative undergraduate research project on understanding stellar structure.
SUNY Geneseo has again made the U.S. News & World Report’s list of "Best Regional Universities in the North," ranking 14th overall in the category, which comprises 179 public and private institutions in the Best Colleges 2020 guidebook.
Award-winning journalist Martha Raddatz, ABC News chief global affairs correspondent and co-anchor of ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos, will deliver the James Jeremiah Wadsworth Endowed Lecture at 7 p.m., Wednesday, September 18 at the Wadsworth Auditorium on the SUNY Geneseo campus. Raddatz’s talk, “From the White House to the Middle East,” will be followed by a Q&A. The event is free and open to the public.
Composer Gregory Spears will deliver the 2019 Walter Harding Lecture at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25 in Doty Recital Hall on the SUNY Geneseo campus. Spears’ lecture, “Thoreau and Music,” is free and open to the public.
New and returning students and faculty are settling in for the start of the 2019–20 academic year as classes begin.
The College officially welcomed new students to campus during New Student Convocation Friday evening, which included a keynote address by Monica Schneider, professor of psychology, on the commitment to community, diversity, and inclusivity students can find on this campus.