SUNY Geneseo will host close to 100 area teachers on Monday, Oct. 9, as part of the first New York Teachers Summit. The event, organized by the SUNY System, is an extension of the TeachNY program, which aims to elevate and support the teaching profession.
Geneseo is one of eight SUNY campuses across the state selected to participate in the summit, which is expected to bring together about 2,500 pre-service and in-service teachers. Activities begin at 8:30 a.m. and run through to 4 p.m.
October is Campus Sustainability Month at SUNY Geneseo and the college community is hosting a variety of lectures, workshops and hands-on events to raise awareness, spark discussion and promote personal involvement. Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is an international celebration of sustainability in higher education, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
Vincent Markowski, associate professor of psychology at SUNY Geneseo, was recently awarded a nearly $400,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Markowski will use the three-year grant to study the cognitive effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug found in marijuana.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Geneseo graduates Kiaya Rose Dilsner-Lopez '17 and Patrick McCormick ’15 have been awarded U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) awards to Brazil for 2018.
Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the 2017 Walter Harding Lecture Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium on the SUNY Geneseo campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Geneseo students and faculty will offer a day of free entertainment at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Lyric Theatre at 440 East Ave. in Rochester, performances will include music, artwork and spoken word.
The Fringe Festival is a 10-day, multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts festival featuring international, national and local artists and showcases theater, comedy, visual arts, family entertainment, music, dance, spoken word, opera, poetry and literature.
GENESEO, N.Y. – The opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in research has become an important part of Geneseo’s academic culture. Although many student participate in research during the academic year, summer is also a busy undergraduate research period. More than 60 students have been on campus this summer working in labs and elsewhere with their faculty mentors, thanks to support from the Geneseo Foundation in cooperation with the SUNY Research Council.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the just-published 2018 edition of its annual flagship college guide, "The Best 382 Colleges." About 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two colleges outside of the United States are profiled in the book. SUNY Geneseo has consistently been on the list for a number of years.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo’s summer learning program for elementary school students in rural areas is in its sixth year and Program Director Annmarie Urso continues to be pleased with the educational and social progress the students make.
GENESEO, N.Y. – A recent visit to Lithuania’s Alytus College by Meredith Harrigan, associate professor of communication at SUNY Geneseo, has helped reinforce Geneseo’s involvement in globally networked learning (GNL).
GNL is an approach to international relationship-building that encourages worldwide academic collaboration by students and faculty while being apart from one another.