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Two recent SUNY Geneseo graduates have been selected as Rochester Youth Year (RYY) fellows for the 2017-18 school year. Receiving fellowships are Antoinette Lubich-Claps ’17, a political science major from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Elizabeth Van Son ’16, a geography major from Rochester, N.Y. Both fellows will be working in Rochester City Schools with different assignments.

Actor William Sadler ’72, who has played in motion pictures such as “The Shawshank Redemption,” “Die Hard 2” and “Iron Man 3” among numerous other roles in show business, will receive the SUNY Geneseo Alumni Association (SGAA) Professional Achievement Award during the college’s Alumni Reunion June 2-3 on campus. Sadler is among several alumni to receive awards during the weekend, when an estimated 550 Geneseo alumni and friends return for activities and entertainment on campus and in the village.

As part of its environmental sustainability efforts, the Center for Community expanded its student recycling program to college off-campus residents this spring.

Seven 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.

New 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.

Randy 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.

Fifteen minutes. That's all the time it took for me to decide I was going to commit to study abroad after reading the description of The African Diaspora in Bahia, Brazil.

More than 700 high school guidance counselors and college admissions professionals from around the state will get to experience SUNY Geneseo’s sense of community first-hand when they visit the campus in June as the college hosts the annual conference of the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC).

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.

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.”

Each year, the SUNY Geneseo Foundation recognizes the outstanding contributions of its alumni and friends with the presentation of its highest awards.

Charles Freeman, professor and chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, is among faculty members the State University of New York Board of Trustees has named to a distinguished professorship.

SUNY Geneseo’s participation in a recent undergraduate scholars conference yielded a Top Paper Award, a third-place poster recognition and a Top School Award for the largest number of accepted student research projects (tied with Northeastern University and Penn State Schuylkill).

A childhood/special education major's class project on Earth Day resulted in a group of children learning about how recycling benefits the environment.

Every spring in K-8 classrooms throughout the Genesee Valley, students think hard about what makes them feel calm, peaceful and at ease. They write poems as part of the Genesee Valley Peace Poetry Contest, and hundreds of students submit their works each year, whether as individual writers or as part of a class or school-wide activity.

Four students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2017 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

SUNY Geneseo will benefit from a $2.5 million state grant awarded to 20 SUNY and CUNY colleges in 17 counties across New York to help prevent and reduce underage drinking and drug abuse.

As a junior, Sam Cowles ’17 wanted to show off skills to potential employers. School of Business Lecturer and Internship Director Robert Boyd helped him fine tune his resume — 25 times.

For vocal performance major Brianna “Bria” Kelly ’17, opera is more than singing. It is connecting with people so that they feel understood.

SUNY Geneseo alumna Molly Smith Metzler, playwright, screenwriter and TV writer, will deliver the keynote address for the college’s two undergraduate commencement ceremonies May 13 in the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena. Metzler will speak at both the 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. ceremonies. Metzler received Geneseo’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2012.

Anne 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.

Two 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.

SUNY 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.

SUNY Geneseo’s Center for Community recognized students and staff during its annual leadership and awards ceremony April 26.

As a communication major and a theatre minor, Brittani Samuel ’17 has taken advantage of the numerous opportunities that she found at Geneseo.