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.
SUNY Geneseo is experiencing a banner year for Fulbright Awards with the selection of a record four honorees – three grant recipients and one alternate – from six Geneseo applications. All recipients received English teaching assistantships (ETA) and will be teaching English part-time to non-native English-speakers, while also completing projects of the own part-time and serving as cultural ambassadors for the United States.
SUNY Geneseo students raised a record $171,000 in Saturday’s 10th annual Relay for Life, a signature fundraiser for the American Cancer Society (ACS) that helps support cancer research and support services for cancer patients. The event raised more than $131,000 last year.
Teams from SUNY Geneseo’s entrepreneurship program won six of the 12 awards presented last night at the regional semifinals of the New York Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) in Rochester. The six teams will advance to the statewide competition in Albany April 24, where they will compete with finalists from nine other Regional Economic Development Council zones.
SUNY Geneseo’s Access Opportunity Program (AOP) is often referred to as a "family," and for many students the AOP office in Blake Hall is their home away from home.
AOP began in 1968 when the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) extended a helping hand to students who did not meet Geneseo’s general admission requirements, due to economic or situational factors.