Friends and family unite to honor their loved ones by creating endowed scholarships for students. By Carol Marcy When Geneseo senior Alexandra Ciarcia ’18 died suddenly in 2017, family and friends, including Ciarcia’s Phi Lambda Chi sorority sisters and the Student Association, wanted to keep her memory alive while helping other students pursue their dreams
Geneseo’s pioneering sociomedical sciences major aims to improve treatment for all. By Lonny Lippsett In 2019, Geneseo became the first and only institution in the SUNY system to offer a new undergraduate major — sociomedical sciences. The interdisciplinary field examines what is happening in people’s bodies but also in their communities and lives in an
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The Geneseo student-athlete experience has developed a strong tradition of alumni coaches at the collegiate level. By Brett Ford Student-athletes are often told that what they learn in competition will apply to their in-classroom learning, but the opposite is true as well. Sometimes, they pass that knowledge on to a new generation — as coaches
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Members of the Geneseo family have built community and supported others in creative ways during the pandemic. By Kris Dreessen When the novel coronavirus became a worldwide crisis, Noah Chichester ’18 was working in A Coruña, Spain, helping adult learners improve their English. Confined to a high-rise apartment for months, he left only to buy
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Book club members find escape and community at Geneseo for more than 100 years. By Mary-Margaret Dwyer ’20 In 1940, Marie Laure and her father fled to the French countryside when the German army invaded Paris. There she encountered Werner, a German who tracked the Resistance. Their tale, told in Anthony Doerr’s book “All the
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While Geneseo’s mission is to foster student growth, faculty and staff learn and gain inspiration from students as well. By Kris Dreessen In higher education, we most often hear about how students learn from professors and staff. But just as often, those faculty and staff members say they learn from and are inspired by students.
Geneseo community members share how their pets teach them about life, loss, relationships and unconditional love. By Kris Dreessen A paw on the hand, a face full of fur, a loving greeting when we arrive. From dogs and cats to horses and pot-bellied pigs, our pets change our lives — and us — in large
Conversation among people of different social identity groups has never been more important. That’s why robbie routenberg ’05, Geneseo’s Chief Diversity Officer, is bringing Inter-group Dialogue (IGD) to the campus.
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Information on those who retired in 2020
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NOTE: The detectors were removed from Letchworth State Park on September 30, 2020 Visitors come to Letchworth State Park to marvel at the “Grand Canyon of the East”, carved by the Genesee River, to photograph the three major waterfalls within the Park, and to hike, swim, kayak, raft, camp, picnic, and ponder. They see rainbows
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