Research Council
The functions of the Research Council are to encourage and promote research and scholarly activities on the campus. It shall improve present means and initiate new means to help faculty and staff members to obtain external funding.
2025-26 Meetings
- August 29, 3 PM: Organizational meeting (Microsoft Teams)
- October 3, 3 PM: Voting meeting for Proposal Writing Support awards (Microsoft Teams)
- November 7, 3 PM: Voting meeting for Dean Johnston awards (Microsoft Teams)
- January 30, 3 PM: Working meeting (Microsoft Teams)
- February 20, 3 PM: Voting meeting Faculty Summer Fellowships (Microsoft Teams)
- March 6, 3 PM: Voting meeting for Undergraduate Summer Fellowships, Rhodes Award, and Proposal Writing Support Awards (Microsoft Teams)
- April 17, 3 PM: Working meeting, new appointments and reappointments, voting meeting for Geneseo Foundation Student Assistantships (Microsoft Teams)
Constitution of the Research Council(PDF) pdf (Rev. Jan. 12, 2017)
Research Council 2025-26
| Ryan Jones, Chair | History | 5449 | jonesr@geneseo.edu |
| Ming Lei, Vice Chair | Communication | 5228 | lei@geneseo.edu |
| Anne Baldwin* | Sponsored Research | 5547 | baldwinA@geneseo.edu |
| Hanna Brant | Political Science & International Relations | 6445 | hbrant@geneseo.edu |
| Susana Castillo-Rodríguez | Global Languages & Cultures | 6350 | castillos@geneseo.edu |
| Shou Chen | School of Business | 5364 | chens@geneseo.edu |
| Alexis Clifton* | Teaching & Learning Center | 5597 | clifton@geneseo.edu |
| Betsy Colón* | Grants Management | 5060 | colon@geneseo.edu |
| Carly Herold | Philosophy | 6352 | heroldc@geneseo.edu |
| Varuni Jamburuthugoda | Biology | 5315 | jamburuthugoda@geneseo.edu |
| Anthony LaLena | Performing Arts | 5824 | alalena@geneseo.edu |
| Michael Lynch | Psychology | 5212 | mlynch@geneseo.edu |
| George Marcus | Physics & Astronomy | 5197 | marcus@geneseo.edu |
| Brenna McCaffrey | Anthropology | 5818 | bmccaffrey@geneseo.edu |
| Sedar Ngoma | Mathematics | 5392 | ngoma@geneseo.edu |
| Olaocha Nwabara | English | 5273 | onwabara@geneseo.edu |
| Paul Pacheco,Student Grants Subcommittee Chair | Anthropology | 5275 | pacheco@geneseo.edu |
| Reece Torres | Sociology | 5335 | rtorres@geneseo.edu |
| Stephen Tulowiecki | Geography | 6196 | tulowiecki@geneseo.edu |
| Annmarie Urso | School of Education | 5468 | urso@geneseo.edu |
| Nicholas Warner | Geological, Environmental and Planetary Sciences | 5291 | warner@geneseo.edu |
| Kazushige Yokoyama | Chemistry & Biochemistry | 5320 | yokoyama@geneseo.edu |
* non-voting member