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‘Soaring Stars’ Summer Program Continues to Benefit Students from Rural Areas | SUNY Geneseo’s summer learning program for elementary school students in rural areas is in its sixth year and Program Director Annmarie Urso continues to be pleased with the educational and social progress the students make. |
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Justin Vossler ’11 Completes Jeopardy! Run at Five | Here's today's Final Jeopardy! answer: This SUNY Geneseo alumnus amassed five straight wins and $112,000 in winnings on a popular nationally syndicated game show. |
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Geneseo Expanding Globally Networked Learning Opportunities | A 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). |
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Students Earned Prestigious Global and National Awards | This summer, Annie Renaud ’19 and Alex McGrath ’17 are living with host families in Russia, immersed in the culture, history and language. They are recipients of Critical Language Scholarships given by the U.S. State Department, for undergraduates to study 14 languages deemed critical to national security and competitiveness. |
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Western Humanities Students Interviewed on French TV | Two 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. |
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Education Major Kendon Bates Presents at Disabilities Studies Conference | Rising senior Kendon Bates ’18 presented his research earlier this summer at the International Disability Studies in Education (IDSE) conference in Minneapolis, Minn. |
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Anthropologist Barbara Welker Authors Open SUNY Textbook | Barbara Welker, associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, is among recent authors for the Open SUNY Textbooks initiative. |
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SUNY Geneseo Joins the Celebration of Thoreau’s 200th Birthday | Geneseo celebrates the 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau and reflects on past and present work on campus to advance the legacy of his literary genius. |
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Rochester City School District Students Exploring the Road to Mars at Geneseo Camp | Could students from the Rochester City School District (RCSD) be instrumental in NASA’s goal to send humans to Mars before the anticipated asteroid event in 2029? |
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Geneseo Among Fiske Guide’s 38 Best-Buy Schools in the U.S., Canada and U.K. | SUNY Geneseo is among 38 “Best Buy Schools” in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2018 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance. |
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Sleeping Sickness Grant Will Benefit Student Research | Kevin 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. |
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Garlic Harvest Used for Luncheons and Training | Last 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. |
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Geography Researchers Awarded NSF Grant to Study Oak Forests | Geography 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. |
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Geneseo Instrumental in New SUNY Partnership with OpenStax | The 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. |
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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. |
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Two Geneseo Alumnae Selected as Rochester Youth Year Fellows | 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. |
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Noted Actor William Sadler 72 Among Those to Receive Awards During Reunion June 2-3 | 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 colleges 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. |
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Student Recycling Benefits Goodwill | As part of its environmental sustainability efforts, the Center for Community expanded its student recycling program to college off-campus residents this spring. |
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Seven Students Present at Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Conference | 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. |
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Mistletoe Research May Keep You Healthy | 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. |
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Educator Randy French '83 Goes on National Geographic Journey to Antarctica | 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. |
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Justen Geddes '18 Reflects On His Epiphanies in Brazil | 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. |
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Summer Conference to Bring Hundreds of Admissions Officers, High-School Counselors to Geneseo | 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). |
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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. |
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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.” |