The Princeton Review has named SUNY Geneseo as a Best Value College for 2025.
Geneseo is among 209 institutions chosen for the designation based on academics, costs, financial aid, debt, graduation rates, and alumni career and salary data.
Thomas Osburn, associate professor of physics, has won a highly competitive 2025–26 Fulbright US Scholar award to Ireland and will spend an academic year at University College Dublin (UCD). Osburn’s grant brings to 37 the number of Fulbright or Fulbright-Hayes awards Geneseo faculty members have received.
Four Geneseo alums have won highly competitive 2025–26 Fulbright US Student awards in a national competition. The awards fund positions in other countries as English Teaching Assistants (ETAs) in schools or post-secondary institutions.
Valeria Espinosa ’25 was one of 50 SUNY’s Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) students to receive the 2025 Norman R. McConney Jr. Award for EOP Excellence. The award recognizes outstanding EOP students for their academic achievements and overcoming personal obstacles throughout their lives.
On Saturday, May 17, SUNY Geneseo held its 159th Commencement, conferring more than 900 degrees before a capacity audience of family, friends, faculty, and staff.
Outgoing President Denise A. Battles gave the commencement keynote, reflecting on her own college experience as a first-generation student as well as her ten-year tenure at Geneseo. Saying that she, too, felt like she was graduating, Battles reminded graduates to consider their responsibility to pay back all who made the day possible.
In a national competition, five SUNY Geneseo students have won 2025–26 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships for study abroad: Brett Bower ’26 (Ireland), Cleopatra Doherty ’27 (Peru), Lily Herman ’26 (UK), Ashley Ilarraza ’26 (Ireland), and Anamaria Santos Mendez ’26 (South Korea). Since the college’s first award in 2007, 61 Geneseo students have won Gilman scholarships.
SUNY Geneseo marked a significant milestone on April 25 with the official grand opening of the newly renovated Milne Library. The $40 million revitalization project, made possible through the State University of New York Construction Fund and financed by the State of New York, reintroduces the iconic building as a state-of-the-art academic hub designed for 21st-century learning, collaboration, and sustainability.
SUNY Geneseo has announced its speakers for the 2025 undergraduate and master’s degree ceremonies.
Denise A. Battles, PhD, president of SUNY Geneseo, will address SUNY Geneseo’s undergraduate Commencement this year on Saturday, May 17, at separate ceremonies at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. in the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena in the Merritt Athletic Center.
A new Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce report shows that a SUNY Geneseo education delivers exceptional long-term value.
SUNY Geneseo has selected Agya Boakye-Boaten (pronounced “Ay-jah Bwachee Bwahten”), PhD, as the inaugural dean for the School of Arts and Sciences. He assumes the role on July 17.