News & Events
Sociomedical Sciences Major Selected to be a 2022-2023 Presidential Scholar
Taylor Hansen, a Sociomedical Sciences major with a minor in the Edgar Fellows Honors Program has been selected to be a 2022-2023 Presidential Scholar. Presidential Scholars at SUNY Geneseo are top-achieving members of the senior class who exemplify Geneseo's institutional values and assist the Provost and President in promoting academic excellence on campus.
Congratulations to the Recipients of the Department of Anthropology's 2022 Awards in Sociomedical Sciences
Two Sociomedical Sciences Majors Receive Competitive Scholarship to Study Abroad in Ghana
Sociomedical Sciences majors Lily Devlen ’23 and Isabella Prince ’23, and Sociomedical Sciences minor Queenie Adams ’22, will study abroad Summer 2022 in Ghana after winning Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships during the 2022–23 national competition.
Sociomedical Sciences Major Alyssa Lee Awarded a Geneseo Student Ambassadorship
Sociomedical Sciences major Alyssa Lee '24 was awarded The Frank Vafier '74 Ambassadorships in Leadership for her project "Chinatown Smiles: Creating Accessibility to Oral/Dental Care in NYC's Chinatown" to answer the question "How might we encourage and foster healthy oral hygiene behaviors in the Chinatown Asian American community, which may lack access to healthcare resources?"
Drew O'Neil (Class of 2021) Awarded Prestigious Center for Disease Control Fellowship
Drew O'Neil, a 2021 Geneseo graduate has been selected to be a Center for Disease Control Public Health Associate. Drew was one of 120 people selected out of 4,000 applicants.
Sociomedical Sciences & Anthropology Double Major Selected to be a 2021-2022 Presidential Scholar
Jillian DeMaria, a Sociomedical Sciences and Anthropology double major, and Human Development minor has been selected to be a 2021-2022 Presidential Scholar. Presidential Scholars at SUNY Geneseo are top-achieving members of the senior class who exemplify Geneseo's institutional values and assist the Provost and President in promoting academic excellence on campus.
Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
Join us in congratulating the seventeen Sociomedical Sciences majors who are graduating this weekend! Click above to see a list of the graduates and, when available, their plans for the near future.
October 1, 2020 Making Health Care More Equitable
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 effort to make access to good health more equitable.
May 16, 2020 Congratulations to the First Two Graduates from the Sociomedical Sciences Major program
Congratulations Gwen Faldinski and Jason Nietzschmann on your graduation from SUNY Geneseo!
February 19, 2020 Sociomedical Sciences Speaker Series presents Dr. Jessica Hardin
Dr. Hardin's presentation "Life without Vegetables: Spectral Foods, Disrupted Foodways and Memories of Health Otherwise in Samoa"will examine the relationship between plantations (small family gardens) and vegetables (mostly introduced) in Samoa. Dr. Jessica Hardin is a medical anthropologist and assistant professor at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her book Faith and the Pursuit of Health Cardiometabolic Disorders in Samoa explores how Pentecostal Christians manage chronic illness in ways that sheds light on health disparities and social suffering in Samoa, a place where rates of obesity and related cardiometabolic disorders have reached population-wide levels.
February 1, 2020 From the Lamron: "Sociomedical sciences major gains traction, expands course offerings"
The sociomedical sciences major, which was approved by the college in November 2019, is now available for students to declare. The major blends various subject fields into a comprehensive program that aims to enable students to pursue a broad range of opportunities in the medical field after graduating...
November 2020 SUNY approves new interdisciplinary major in Sociomedical Sciences
The Department of Anthropology at SUNY Geneseo is introducing a new major for undergraduate students interested in the social determinants of disease and health. The sociomedical sciences major examines the correlation between trends in health and its social causes, including social inequality and structural inequities. It prepares students to pursue careers and advanced training in both clinical and non-clinical health professions by focusing on the causes, spread, prevention, and treatment of disease and illness...
March 2018 McNair Scholars collaborating on medical anthropological research project
In summer 2018, McNair Scholars will have the opportunity to learn and practice ethnographic research skills with Dr. Jennifer Guzmán and Dr. Melanie Medeiros from the Anthropology department. Their research project on latino immigrant farmworker health and access to health care will be part of the McNair's Geneseo Introductory Research Opportunity (GIRO) program.