GENESEO, N. Y. -- SUNY Geneseo senior Maydelis Minaya, one of five Geneseo students with a Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (JFEW) scholarship, is among those featured on a SinoVision English television report titled “Not Your Average Summer School.”
Minaya, from New York City, was touring the Chinese Consulate in New York as part of the internship component of her scholarship program when the U.S.-based Chinese network was preparing the report.
Denise A. Battles began her tenure today as SUNY Geneseo’s 13th president. The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Battles to the position in January following a national search, becoming the second woman to lead the college as permanent president in the college’s 144-year history. She will be officially installed as president during an inaugural ceremony Oct. 22 on campus.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is among 44 “Best Buy Schools” in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2016 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.
SUNY Geneseo faculty member Glenn McClure has completed a new choral work that the European Space Operations Center Chorus will perform in Darmstadt, Germany, June 28 to celebrate the center’s successful comet landing last November. The work is also in celebration of 25th anniversary of the chorus.
A new SUNY Geneseo study abroad program in Iceland is among four winners of 2015-16 SUNY Chancellor’s Grants for Innovative Study Abroad Programs, which supports unique opportunities that increase student mobility overseas.
Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher announced the grants today, which amount to $4,000 in funding to offset the cost to students.
A challenge 25 years in the making, the Make Your Mark Program engaged students to raise more than $10,000 to support what matters most to their experiences on campus.
Michael Oberg from SUNY Geneseo's Department of History and an internationally renowned scholar in Native American studies, has been appointed a SUNY Distinguished Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. Oberg is the sixth Geneseo faculty member to receive a SUNY Distinguished Professorship.
GENESEO, NY -- For 10 years, Dr. Rob Doggett has run the Genesee Valley Peace Poetry contest, encouraging students in grade K through 8 to write poems about peace—whatever that might mean to them. This year’s event is May 10 at 2 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
“The goal of the contest,” said Dr. Doggett, Professor of English at SUNY Geneseo, “is to give students the opportunity to reflect creatively on the theme of peace at a time when so much of what they encounter in the media is dominated by images of violence.”
Geneseo’s annual short film festival, Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival (GIFF), has grown steadily in popularity in its four years of existence.
Led by Joseph Dolce, instructional support coordinator in the college’s Computing and Information Technology Department, the 2015 festival is now history with the winners announced at a screening party April 21 during GREAT Day (Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement and Talent).
Student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program captured a total of five wins in this year’s New York State Business Plan Competition in Albany April 24, including a first and third place prize.
Winning one of six first place prizes in the biotechnology/healthcare track was Geneseo’s TrainSmart team, in collaboration with the University of Rochester Medical Center, a venture focused on commercializing “smart diapers” for children with autism. The team will receive $10,000 cash and in-kind services.