Six SUNY Geneseo athletic teams will compete in the NCAA postseason during the next two weekends: women’s basketball, men’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving.
“I am so proud of our teams, competing and excelling on the biggest stages,” says Dani Drews, director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. “It was gratifying and humbling to watch the hard work of our student-athletes pay off. I can’t wait to see them in action again.”
Paleoecologist Patricia H. Kelley, professor emerita at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, will deliver the 21st annual American Rock Salt Lecture in Newton Hall 214 on April 3 at 7:30 pm. Kelley’s talk, “Conservation Paleobiology: Using the Dead to Save the Living,” is free and open to the public.
Daniel Hungerman, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Monday, April 7.
The lecture, “Every Day Is Earth Day: Understanding the Long-term Impacts of April 22, 1970,” will be held in Milne Library’s Multipurpose Room A from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.
Meet sophomore biology major Sarah Karimi from Syracuse, NY. Karimi is the president of the Muslim Student Association (MSA) and a member of the Pre-Dental Club and the South Asian cultural club, Shakti. She also works in Associate Professor Travis Bailey's lab, assisting in researching retinal regeneration and development in zebrafish. After graduation, Karimi plans to become an oral and maxillofacial surgeon.
For the seventh time in the past eight years, SUNY Geneseo has been named a Top Producer of Fulbright US Student awards, the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs announced in its annual article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance proudly presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble in Dancing into View, which is dedicated to Myrtle Merritt, PhD, featuring works by faculty and student choreographers with 50 performers. The concert, artistically directed and produced by professor of dance studies Jonette Lancos, will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre on February 27, February 28, and March 1 at 7:30 p.m., and March 2 at 2 p.m.
SUNY Geneseo has appointed Lisa Wilder, PhD, as the associate dean in the School of Business, effective February 27. Wilder comes to Geneseo from Albright College in Reading, PA, where she served most recently as the inaugural dean to lead online programs in its School of Business and Professional Studies.
The Office of Accessibility Services welcomes autism activist and animal behavior expert Temple Grandin, PhD, to SUNY Geneseo for a public talk Friday, March 28. The talk will take place in Wadsworth Auditorium at 1 p.m. Grandin will also sign copies of her book Visual Thinking following the lecture from 2:15 to 3 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union lobby. Tickets are free but required for the talk.
Professor of history Joe Cope has been awarded a $500,000 Mellon Foundation grant for the project Social Justice and the Humanities: Disciplinary Knowledge and Practice. The three-year award began on January 1.
Professor Karleen West, chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Political Science and International Relations, has been named to the third cohort—the first of two in 2025—of the Department Chair Leadership Institute (DCLI) at the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).