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- Alumni Spotlight: Raymond Lord III '11The first home Raymond Lord III 11 sold as a newbie real-estate agent was $3 million. He's paying his success forward by funding student innovation and assisting inclusivity efforts.
- Students and Graduates Earn International and National Awards
- Young Alumnus 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.
He is part of a team of researchers who are developing clinical tests to find lingering cells sooner, and ultimately save lives. - 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.
- Take a Walk on the Wild SideThe college celebrates 25 years of the Roemer Arboretum, an outdoor classroom and oasis and an ecosystem with war and peace played out on a tiny scale.
- Garlic Harvest Used for Luncheons and TrainingLast week, Geneseo chefs prepared potato salad for an employee year-end luncheon with garlic scapes harvested from the college’s own learning and experimental garden as the star ingredient.
- Educator Randy French '83 Goes on National Geographic Journey to AntarcticaRandy French '83, a science teacher at Geneseo Central School, journeyed to Antarctica last year, made possible by a Grosvenor Teaching Fellowship from the National Geographic Society. He was one of a handful of educators selected from among hundreds of applicants for a 13-day trip around the Antarctica peninsula.
- Geography Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Oak ForestsGeography faculty members David Robertson and Stephen Tulowiecki ’09, have received an NSF grant to study 200 years of environmental and cultural changes in eastern US white oak forests.
- Social Network: Geneseo Environmental Organization Members Are Earth AdvocatesMembers of the GEO club on campus raise awareness of sustainability, use and consequences on campus and in the world.
- Student Recycling Benefits GoodwillAs part of its environmental sustainability efforts, the Center for Community expanded its student recycling program to college off-campus residents this spring.
- 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.
- 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.
- Class of 2017: Meet Daniel Ruiz, Political and Community Bridge-BuilderAs a senior political science major and a public administration minor, Daniel Ruiz has taken advantage of Geneseo’s numerous opportunities to attain more hands-on experience with his major.
- Geneseo Hosts Cuba Symposium April 20 and 21Cuban speakers and experts on the ever-changing country are on campus today and tomorrow for an interdisciplinary symposium on contemporary Cuba.
- Mountain Class: Geography Students Explore How Communities Work in the RockiesIn the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how communities work.
- Professor's Amazon Research Published in National JournalsAssistant Professor of Political Science Karleen Wests research on indigenous reactions to oil development in Ecuador has earned national attention in two publications.
- MLK Jr. Commemoration to Feature SNCC ActivistsSUNY Geneseo's annual April commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy will feature panel discussions with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists Jennifer Lawson, Karen Spellman, and Freddie Greene Biddle. The Civil Rights era activists will take part in panel discussions on April 3 & 4.
- ‘Year Without a Summer’ is Topic of American Rock Salt Lecture April 6Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 14th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 202. The lecture, titled “Frankenstein’s Weather: The Year Without a Summer, 1816,” is free and open to the public.
- Amazon Leader Discusses Land Preservation FightWhen their land in the Ecuadorian Amazon was opened for oil drilling, the First People of Sarayaku fought back - and have won in the highest international courts to protect their land and the ecosystems resources.
- Geneseo Professor Studies Afro-Brazilian MarriageAssistant Professor of Anthropology Melanie Medeiros is getting ready to celebrate the release of her book, Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship.
- Ambassador Dennis Ross to Deliver Roemer Lecture on the Middle EastAmbassador Dennis Ross will deliver the Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo. He will address "How Should We Think About the Middle East" at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 23 in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom. The event is free and open to the public.
- Printing Initiative Reduces Waste As part of CITs ongoing printing improvement Initiative, Computing and Information Technologys gPrint system is helping to reduce waste on campus.
- Student Examines Solar Power in College's eGardenEvery year in early March, while experts in the field of sustainable energy begin to flock to Austria for the annual World Sustainable Energy Days conference, students around the world are hard at work conducting sustainable research projects of their own. Last summer, Aidan Murphy, a senior math major, had the opportunity to work on a project at Geneseos own environmental research facility known as the eGarden.