GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo students have resurrected The Memories Campaign at the college (formerly Heard @ Geneseo) to continue the organization’s legacy of documenting the lives of senior citizens in the region.
The campaign recently celebrated the release of its newest life profile, or “chapbook,” of the well-known alumna and community member Patricia Malet Fennell ’65.
The campaign has its roots in the Edgar Fellows (Honors Program) Senior Capstone project of Michael Roff ’12.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Geneseo-based startup company Verdimine has signed an exclusive license agreement with the Research Foundation for The State University of New York to employ a proprietary green chemistry process that improves safety and efficiency in manufacturing specialty chemicals across many industries.
The College will host the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Leadership and Service on Monday, Jan. 15, 2018, with relevant addresses, workshops and activities that assist others in the community.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Three administrators in the College’s Center for Community are serving in leadership roles of three major national student affairs professional association governing boards.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Two SUNY Geneseo faculty members have each received a $750 mini-grant from the Finger Lakes Project to jointly develop a sustainability curriculum project titled “Food Sustainability Across Disciplines.”
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo's Dance Ensemble will feature works by student choreographers during its "49.5 Live: Dancing Towards 50" performance Dec. 7-10 in the Alice Austin Theatre. The Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. and the Sunday matinee begins at 2 o'clock. Tickets are $10 and available through the Student Association Ticket Office or online.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- The Department of Physics and Astronomy has received a $420,000 award for the 2017-18 school year from the University of Rochester’s Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE) in support of an ongoing collaborative research project titled “Nuclear and Plasma Diagnostics for the EP-OMEGA and MTW Laser System.”
GENESEO, N.Y.—The SUNY Geneseo Music Department’s Faculty and Guest Artist Series will feature the Geneseo Piano Trio Dec. 3 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The program will begin with a recently composed work, “Moments Past,” by James Walker, professor emeritus of music at the College.
Walker describes “Moments Past” as “a short, somewhat rambling, repetitive, episodic, very difficult, dissonant, developmental bit of composition, using several fragments borrowed from previous compositions. Hence, the title “Moments Past” or even “Moments Passed.”
GENESEO, N.Y. – Leah McGray will debut as the new Geneseo Symphony Orchestra principal conductor when the symphony joins the Geneseo Festival Chorus and the Genesee Valley Children’s Choir in presenting Carl Orff’s 20th century masterpiece “Carmina Burana” Nov. 19 at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.
McGray, who earned her doctorate in musical arts at Northwestern University, joined the Geneseo faculty this semester as director of instrumental activities. She also directs the Geneseo Wind Ensemble.
Lake of Betrayal, a documentary that explores the history of Kinzua Dam and its effect on the Seneca Indians whose lands were taken for the reservoir, will be shown at Geneseo’s Riviera Theater on Wednesday, Nov. 15 at 7 p.m. A Q&A session with the filmmakers Scott Sackett, Paul Lamont, and Caleb Abrams, and SUNY Distinguished Professor of History Michael Oberg, will follow the screening. The event is free and open to the public.