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  • Speech Buddies Bridge the Language and Culture GapEmily Rogers ’17 and SoJin Lee ’17 developed a friendship through the Speech Buddies program, where Emily helped SoJin hone her English skills.
  • Political Science Professor Is Teaching at the USAF AcademyPolitical Science Professor Jeff Koch will join USAF Academy in Colorado Springs for a one-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor of political science.
  • Songs From the Ice: Antarctica Research Combines Math, Music and NatureIt’s a typical spring morning at Sweet Arts Bakery on Main Street in Geneseo. Students, teachers and townspeople come and go: There’s laughter, there’s the clank of dishes, there’s conversation.
    And with the noises as a backdrop, Glenn McClure ’86/MS.S.Ed ’11— composer, musician, humanities teacher, and adjunct lecturer in Geneseo’s English Department — talks of sounds and silence, thousands of miles away in Antarctica.

  • Students Spend Summer Focused on Research Projects with Faculty MentorsThe opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in research has become an important part of Geneseo’s academic culture. Although many student participate in research during the academic year, summer is also a busy undergraduate research period for students. More than 60 students have been on campus this summer working in labs and elsewhere with their faculty mentors, thanks to support from the Geneseo Foundation in cooperation with the SUNY Research Council.
  • Geneseo Expanding Globally Networked Learning OpportunitiesA recent visit to Lithuania’s Alytus College by Meredith Harrigan, associate professor of communication at SUNY Geneseo, has helped reinforce Geneseo’s involvement in globally networked learning (GNL).
  • Western Humanities Students Interviewed on French TVTwo SUNY Geneseo students were interviewed recently on the France 3 public television channel during their study abroad class’s visit to the Historial de la Grande Guerre (World War I museum) in Péronne, north of Paris.
  • Education Major Kendon Bates Presents at Disabilities Studies ConferenceRising senior Kendon Bates ’18 presented his research earlier this summer at the International Disability Studies in Education (IDSE) conference in Minneapolis, Minn.
  • Anthropologist Barbara Welker Authors Open SUNY TextbookBarbara Welker, associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, is among recent authors for the Open SUNY Textbooks initiative.
  • National Grant to Fund Geosciences StudentsAcademically talented students with financial need will benefit from a $639,136 grant the National Science Foundation has awarded SUNY Geneseo to recruit students interested in geology, geochemistry and geophysics programs.
  • Geneseo Research Calls for Rethinking DiabetesIn a study published in the journal Nutrition, Wendy Pogozelski, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of Geneseo’s Department of Chemistry, describes evidence from clinical and experimental studies that supports a carbohydrate-restriction approach to treatment of type 2 diabetes.
  • Sleeping Sickness Grant Will Benefit Student ResearchKevin Militello, professor of biology, has been awarded a grant of nearly $460,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. The award will, in part, help fund undergraduate researchers who will work in Militello’s lab looking for new drug targets in the parasite that causes African Sleeping Sickness.
  • Geneseo Leads in International Study, Starts Ugandan Field WorkMore Geneseo students study abroad during their college years than students on any other SUNY campus. Such transformative experiences give students confidence, skills and deeper understanding of global issues and cultures.
  • Students and Graduates Earn International and National Awards
  • Young alumni is on the cutting edge of fighting cancerAt the National Institutes of Health, Greg Roloff ’12 analyzes blood samples of patients with leukemia that persists after cancer treatment — at levels below detection.

  • Geneseo Instrumental in New SUNY Partnership with OpenStaxThe State University of New York is among 11 schools or systems in the nation selected to participate in the 2017-18 OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program to encourage use of free, peer-reviewed textbooks on campus. The SUNY application, submitted by SUNY OER Services at SUNY Geneseo on behalf of the system, was among 42 applications for the program.
  • SUNY Chancellor Honors Excellence Among Geneseo Faculty and Staff Five SUNY Geneseo faculty members, two professional staff members and a member of the college’s classified services are among recipients of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence for the 2016-17 academic year. The system-wide honors recognize consistently superior professional achievement and encourages the ongoing pursuit of excellence.
  • Seven Students Present at Biochemistry and Molecular Biology ConferenceSeven Geneseo students, three graduating seniors and four juniors, recently presented posters on their undergraduate research at the annual meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in Chicago. The meeting was in conjunction with the Experimental Biology conference.
  • Mistletoe Research May Keep You HealthyNew research by Suann Yang, assistant professor of biology, examines the interactions of mistletoe, a parasitic plant, host trees and two species of birds that disperse the mistletoe seeds.
  • At Age 71, James Ratigan Cherishes His Geneseo Degree James W. Ratigan, a 71-year-old retiree from Friendship, N.Y., is not one to remain idle. And now that he has a Geneseo bachelor’s degree in hand, it’s unlikely that idleness will ever be an issue.
  • Graduates Celebrate and Hear Sage Advice During Commencement SUNY Geneseo alumna Molly Smith Metzler made it clear to the graduates in the Class of 2017 today that life likely will not go the way they think it will but encouraged them to treat setbacks as “the stuff that will give you a wonderful and interesting life story, one that you get to write and star in.”
  • Four Receive Chancellor's Awards for Student ExcellenceFour students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2017 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.
  • Education Student Involves Holy Childhood Students in Recycling ProjectA class project of a SUNY Geneseo childhood/special education major on Earth Day resulted in a group of children learning about how recycling benefits the environment.
  • Geography Faculty Members Earn NSF Grant to Study Oak ForestsTwo faculty members in the Department of Geography have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimension of changes in oak forests in the eastern United States.
  • CHAS Grant to Support STEM Mentoring Program at GeneseoAnne Pellerin, assistant professor of physics and astronomy, and Amber Charlebois, chemistry department lecturer, have received a Consortium for High Achievement and Success (CHAS) faculty grant of $6,500 for a pilot project to build a tiered mentoring program for undergraduate women and underrepresented minorities in STEM fields at Geneseo.
  • Douglas Owens Receives Fulbright DAAD to LeipzigSUNY Geneseo faculty member Douglas Owens has received a Fulbright German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) award to attend the summer academy in Leipzig for U.S.-American faculty in German Studies.
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