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All five student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program are advancing to the NYS Business Plan Competition in Albany April 28.

Colleen Steward ’19, a dedicated member of Colleges Against Cancer student club and an aspiring medical researcher who wants to focus on fighting cancer has been named a Newman Civic Fellow for 2017.

In the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how communities work.

Evan Goldstein ’17, who journeyed across the country to explore and document America, has won the prestigious Patricia Kerr Ross Award for his poetry, photography and efforts for social justice.

Two Geneseo seniors, a graduate student and an alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Fulbright Scholarships for 2017-18 to participate in the English Teaching Assistant (ETA) Program. Another student was selected as an alternate.

Wander into the lobby of South Hall at 6pm and you might get served. This is the meeting of Geneseo’s elite table tennis team. Every weekday night, professors, students and even alumni transform the School of Business into tennis table central.

SUNY Geneseo will open its doors to prospective students and their families on Saturday, April 22, for a spring open house. Students and their families will have the opportunity to explore and learn about the college’s exceptional academic, cultural and social opportunities.

Last month, 14 students set out for Kissimmee, Fla., to share their time and passion as part of an alternative spring break by volunteering at Give Kids The World (GKTW) Village.

The State University of New York at Geneseo will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by the college’s faculty. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

“Small, but mighty.” Those are the words SUNY Geneseo’s Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) uses to describe SUNY Geneseo and its students. The 12th annual Relay for Life event on April 8 at the Wilson Ice Arena lived up to the description.

Geneseo and the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena is a top 10 finalist for the title of "Kraft Hockeyville USA 2017." The contest seeks to determine the top hockey community in the country. The grand prize includes $150,000 in arena upgrades and a chance to host a pre-season NHL game in the fall.

Two SUNY Geneseo students have received prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2017. Juniors Jeffrey Doser, a biology/mathematics double major from Penfield, N.Y., and Lara Finnerty-Haggerty, a biology major from Brooklyn, N.Y., were among the 240 recipients.

Maria Gershuni '17 recently won the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) David J. Prior Award for an essay in which she shared her perspective of the value of a liberal arts education and how her experience at Geneseo has helped shaped who she is.

Geneseo will confer an honorary Doctor of Humane Letter degree upon John Churchill, secretary emeritus of The Phi Beta Kappa Society, during the college’s 151st Commencement May 13.

SUNY Geneseo is among 83 campuses in 23 states recently designated a “Voter-Friendly Campus” by the national nonpartisan organizations Campus Vote Project (CVP) and NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

At Geneseo's eGarden, faculty, staff and students are sowing the seeds of ingenuity and better earth practices. Now they have the added power of electricity in the barn.

SUNY Geneseo is on a new list of the nation’s top public colleges, ranking 52nd out of 499 four-year public institutions in the country based on academic excellence, affordability, diversity and economic strength. Among New York’s 30 public colleges, Geneseo ranks fifth in the survey, the highest among SUNY’s four-year comprehensive colleges.

Assistant Professor of Political Science Karleen West’s research on indigenous reactions to oil development in Ecuador has earned national attention in two publications.

Geneseo's Relay for Life is one of the most successful in the country. This year, students will try to break a new fundraising record on April 8.

This year’s GREAT Day, April 25, features a lecture by an expert on how the brain controls complex behaviors, including vocal language and learning.

For the second time and in consecutive years, a Geneseo undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship and is now headed to MIT.

SUNY 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.

SUNY Geneseo will bring an iconic canon of American musical theater, “Gypsy: The Musical,” to its theater to both amuse and to teach valuable lessons to its audience.

Gillen 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.

Juniors and sophomores from 13 area high schools are coming to the SUNY Geneseo campus March 31 to experience a day-long leadership training program created for the first time last year by a Geneseo student focused on empowering tomorrow’s leaders. At least 205 students are expected to attend from high schools in Livingston, Wyoming, and Genesee counties.