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SUNY Geneseo will host the “Roc Your Global Future: Lessons from Abroad Rochester Area Study Abroad Returnee Conference” on Saturday, Sept. 30. Recent returnees from study abroad experiences will learn about how to understand their time abroad and how to become a more effective global citizen.

Vincent Markowski, an associate professor of psychology, was recently awarded a nearly $400,000 research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Markowski will use the three-year grant to study the cognitive effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug most commonly found in marijuana.

Geneseo graduates Kiaya Rose Dilsner-Lopez '17 and Patrick McCormick ’15 have been awarded U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) awards to Brazil for 2018.

President Denise A. Battles has been elected vice chair/chair-elect of the American Council on Education’s Council of Fellows. The Council comprises alumni of the ACE Fellows Program, which is regarded as the country’s premier higher education leadership development experience, preparing senior leaders to serve American colleges and universities.

For the first time, SUNY Geneseo will host a combined Homecoming and Family Weekend, Sept. 22 –23. Over 1,600 alumni and parents have registered for the event. See the story for a highlights list of events

Maria Lima, professor of English and director of the college’s Comparative Literature Program, will deliver the James and Julia Lockhart Supported Professorship Lecture Sept. 25 at 5 p.m. in Doty Hall 300 (the Tower Room). Lima’s lecture title is “Reclaiming the Human: From the Bildungsroman to Neo-Slave Narratives.”

Patrick Buckley ’19, will launch his Discovery Cafe with three free public events this fall. The first talk, “A Series of Discrepant Events: Some Physics in Action,” presented by Kurt Fletcher, SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Physics & Astronomy, will take place on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 7 p.m. at the Wadsworth Library on Center St., Geneseo.

Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the 2017 Walter Harding Lecture Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium on the SUNY Geneseo campus.

As a participant of the U.N. Global Compact, SUNY Geneseo has joined world leaders at the United Nations in adopting the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all.

David O. Carpenter will deliver “Is the human race sustainable after the age chemicals?” on Wednesday, Oct. 4, at 2:30 p.m. in Newton Hall on the Geneseo campus. It is free and open to the public.

Geneseo students and faculty will offer a day of free entertainment at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Lyric Theatre at 440 East Ave. in Rochester, performances will include music, artwork and spoken word.

Political Science Professor Jeff Koch will join USAF Academy in Colorado Springs for a one-year appointment as Distinguished Visiting Professor of political science.

Bonadonna has made the elimination of the virus her personal mission, leading education and advocacy efforts for polio eradication for hundreds of members in Virginia. She has also traveled to Nigeria once and to India seven times to inoculate children. This coming spring, she’s off to Ethiopia.

Monday, September 18th is Constitution Day. In honor of the day, Geneseo is hosting a special deliberative dialog discussion, "Political Fix--How Should We Get American Politics Back on Track?” Advance registration, which is required, closes on Friday, Sept. 15 at noon. Students are eligible for Silver or Diamond credit.

Emily Rogers ’17 and SoJin Lee ’17 developed a friendship through the Speech Buddies program, where Emily helped SoJin hone her English skills.

For the seventh time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings among regional universities in the north in its just-published “Best Colleges 2018” guide. Geneseo has ranked first in that category for seven of the eight years “U.S. News” has included it in its annual rankings.

More SUNY Geneseo students will benefit from the renewal of a scholarship program that best-selling author James Patterson created in 2013 at the college’s Ella Cline Shear School of Education. Patterson has donated $90,000 to the James Patterson Teacher Education Scholarship Fund at Geneseo to provide new scholarships of $6,000 for eligible incoming freshmen, first-year graduate students, and five renewal scholarships for seniors who have been receiving Patterson scholarships annually since the second year of the Patterson Scholarship program at SUNY Geneseo.

College Senate Chair Duane McPherson is accepting nominations from faculty, students and staff for several Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence and for Distinguished Professorships.

Professor Michael Leroy Oberg’s revised textbook, “Native America: A History, Second Edition,” hit college bookstore shelves just in time for the new academic year. Oberg, a SUNY Distinguished Professor of history at Geneseo, says that the new edition includes expanded discussions on the law and native history since World War II.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan, will deliver a lecture on the Attica Prison uprising of 1971. Her talk, “The Attica Prison Uprising and Why It Matters Today,” will occur on the 46th anniversary of the uprising, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 7 p.m. in Newton Hall. The talk is free and open to the public. A book signing and reception will follow.

SUNY Geneseo strongly endorses the position of SUNY Chairman H. Carl McCall and Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson in their call to support the continuation of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Indeed, the College has consistently and publicly advocated for this vital program, in partnership with the American Council on Education and other higher education institutions.

Student explorers share their award-winning photographs — and life-changing moments — from when they studied abroad.

This summer, 26 students explored health, environment, education and economics for four weeks this summer, all across Ghana. Two courses worked together in the African country — Global Health Issues (biology) and for the first time, Global Development in Ghana (sociology) — drawing on a longtime Geneseo partnership with organizations and leaders.

It’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.

Randy French ’83, a science teacher at Geneseo Central School, also journeyed to Antarctica last year, made possible by a Grosvenor Teaching Fellowship from the National Geographic Society.