Mission LGBTQ+ Life at SUNY Geneseo supports and empowers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex and asexual students. Through collaboration with students, faculty and staff, the LGBTQ+ Life develops and implements programs and resources to affirm an individual’s many identities. This includes a/sexuality, a/gender identity, gender expression, race, ethnicity, ability, class and religion. Note:
First licensed in 1963 — making it the Greater Rochester region’s first FCC-authorized college radio station — WGSU has a storied history as an FM broadcast radio station serving the SUNY Geneseo campus and surrounding Livingston County communities (following beginnings as an AM carrier-current station covering the campus only). Licensed as a noncommercial educational station
Three administrators in the College’s Center for Community are serving in leadership roles of three major national student affairs professional association governing boards.
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Two SUNY Geneseo students, Thasfia Chowdhury and Chelsea Pierre-Louis, have won Institute for International Education (IIE) Generation Study Abroad Travel Grants in a national competition.
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High-school history teacher Justin Vossler ’11 knows his trivia. He won five times on Jeopardy! this year and competed in the show’s Tournament of Champions. Want to test your trivia knowledge? Justin has created a quiz, just for the Geneseo Scene. Questions get more difficult the longer you play. Enjoy! 1. Despite trailing 28-3 in
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It was the early 1980s and Mark Ashley ’77 was on his way to one of his patient’s living quarters in the residential area of the Centre for Neuro Skills (CNS), the rehabilitation facility he had founded to treat patients with acquired and traumatic brain injuries. He was carrying a small bottle of champagne.
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Stepping into some professors’ offices is an encounter with their passion for their area of expertise, their personalities and life journeys.
“It’s not really that hard of a decision to support Geneseo,” said Kevin Gavagan ’75. “The students are well-rounded, bright and hard-working, and we alumni have an obligation to give back and keep that winning program strong.”
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In the popular current “Sherlock” TV series, actor Benedict Cumberbatch is always reaching into his “mind palace” to retrieve vital information to solve the case. Which he always does. Justin Vossler ’11, too, has an impressive “mind palace,” and can even tell you the origins of the technique. The class of 2011 history major and now history teacher, won five times on Jeopardy! last summer.
In the Ecuadorian Amazon, members of the Sarayaku Kichwa live in harmony with “Pachamama,” or Mother Earth. When workers from the national oil company of Ecuador flew a prospecting helicopter onto their land in 2007, the Sarayaku protested against drilling and fought to protect their way of life, winning their case in an international court in 2012.
