As the Eddie Lee ’76 First Generation Ambassador, Pema Sherpa ’19 spent the fall semester in her native Nepal, shadowing pediatric doctors to learn about medicine and the challenges of providing health care in underserved areas. She also collaborated with the doctors to provide no-cost eye exams to more than 700 children and prescription eye glasses to 80 students who needed them.
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Alumni Development Coordinator Corning Community College Career Field : Administration Graduation Year : 2017 “The analytical mindset, attention to detail, and global skepticism of my existence contribute to my personal and professional life.I am appreciative of the culture of friendliness embodied by the philosophy department. Having taken the majority of my classes with Dr. Everett,
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Austin Ainsworth ’19, from Honeoye Falls, NY, is a skilled xylophone player. He’s also a late-night Dungeons & Dragons gamer, a former Pride Alliance officer, a budding recreational poet, and a genetics researcher — and he’s all those things because he chose to attend SUNY Geneseo.
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SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Music will host a “unity-community sing” of Ludwig van Beethoven’s on Sunday, May 5, in Wadsworth Auditorium. Volunteer singers will join the Geneseo Symphony Orchestra, the Festival Singers, Geneseo’s town/gown choir, and professional soloists.
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Chemical Analysis Senior Technician Global Foundries Career Field : Sciences Graduation Year : 2009 “While not many job boards have open career postings for philosophers, a philosophy major is, in my opinion, perhaps the best second major you could pursue. Combined with the knowledge gained in my Biochemistry degree, the skills prized in my current
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology University of Alabama, Birmingham Career Field : Education Graduation Year : 2005 “The ability to formulate logical arguments and logical statements helps me speak to patients every day. I am a head and neck cancer surgeon. Head and neck cancer is a disease that takes away our ability to eat, speak
Assistant Professor of Philosophy Texas State University Career Field : Education Graduation Year : 2004 “I’m now a philosophy professor, so philosophy has had a huge impact on my personal and professional success. But it wasn’t philosophy in general: it was philosophy at Geneseo. Lots of departments are made up of people who simply aren’t
Lean Finance Consultant ABB Career Field : Finance Graduation Year : 2002 “There are many skills you can learn studying philosophy. Critical thinking, written communication, etc. But, let’s be honest, people don’t normally study philosophy for the improvement of their skills. It’s because we are drawn to it, in spite of the fact that the
Bruce Himelstein ’76 started hotel work as a bellhop. He became a sales and marketing expert known for innovation and customer service. By Sherrie Negrea Six months after graduating as a communication major from Geneseo, Bruce Himelstein ’76, in desperation, took a job as a housekeeper at the Americana Inn in Albany, N.Y. He struggled
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