News Archive

The annual observance of Cultural Harmony Week has become a tradition at Geneseo that truly puts into practice the sentiments expressed in its mission and values statements.

GENESEO, N.Y. – New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has appointed Melisza Campos to the SUNY Geneseo College Council.

After graduating in 2014 with a degree in childhood/special education as well as a minor in Asian studies and a concentration in women and gender studies, Hannah Hunter moved to Pattaya, Thailand to teach.

Geneseo gets an up-close look at extraterrestrial lunar rocks dating back billions of years.

The SUNY Geneseo men's and women's cross country teams were both ranked No. 1 in Division III; the first time in the history of the rankings that one institution has held the top spot in both polls at the same time. 

President Denise A. Battles and volunteer leadership staff were in Washington, D.C., last week and returned with an important honor: The college is again named in the President’s 2015 Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.

October is Sustainability Month at the college and campus community members are hosting more than a dozen lectures, workshops and hands-on events that raise awareness, spark discussion and promote personal involvement.

SUNY Geneseo Professor of English Rachel Hall, who was awarded the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction by BkMk Press, has recently published a collection of linked short stories entitled “Heirlooms.”

Items that would be bound for the trash heap but instead were donated by departing students last summer raised more than $8,000 for the campus InterFaith Center and food and other resources for local organizations.

Cornell University Professor Tony Ingraffea, featured speaker for the President’s Annual Sustainability Lecture, will give a talk at Geneseo about the need for renewable energy. 

A recently announced $2.5 million School Improvement Grant will fund services provided by SUNY Geneseo to Rochester City School District’s School 19, to help implement wide-ranging changes in the school.

For the sixth time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching rankings among regional universities-north in its just-published “Best Colleges 2017” guide.

Dr. Tia Brown McNair, vice president of the Office of Diversity, Equity and Student Services at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, D.C., delivered the keynote address at this year's ASSESStivus.

The Gilman Scholarship Program offers grants for U.S. citizen undergraduate students of limited financial means to pursue studies abroad, better preparing U.S. students to assume significant roles in an increasingly global economy and interdependent world.

The Princeton Review has included SUNY Geneseo in the just-published 2017 edition of its flagship college guide, "The Best 381 Colleges."

Justin Behrend, associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, has been awarded the 2016 McLemore Prize, which honors “the most distinguished scholarly book on a topic in Mississippi history or biography published in 2015.”

Classes are underway for the 2016-17 school year at SUNY Geneseo as the College welcomed the Class of 2020 and other new students to campus during the weekend.

Building on the solid foundation that has distinguished a Geneseo education for almost 150 years, a new strategic plan has been launched that supports the College’s mission to advance knowledge and inspire students to be socially responsible and globally aware citizens who are prepared for an enriched life and success in their careers.

As the start of the 2016-17 school year approaches, both new and returning students are preparing to arrive on campus to ready themselves for the beginning of classes Aug. 29.

SUNY Geneseo’s Departments of Biology and Chemistry will benefit from a National Science Foundation (NSF) major research instrumentation award of $38,125 for the purchase of a new imaging system.

SUNY Geneseo today launched a new, redesigned version of its website (geneseo.edu), combining a clean, visually-powerful and content-rich interface to afford a positive user experience. The revamped site was a collaboration between the Office of College Communications and Marketing, and the Department of Computing and Information Technology (CIT) with significant support from the Milne Library web team. It’s the College’s first major website update in eight years.

Four undergraduate students from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey, are involved this summer in the SUNY Geneseo School of Education’s “Soaring Stars” learning program for elementary-age students in rural areas.

Five SUNY Geneseo faculty members and Milne Library will be implementing three Innovative Instruction Technology Grants (IITG) that SUNY has announced for the 2016-17 school year. Geneseo’s awards were among 35 selected across the SUNY system from 78 proposals. The competitive grants fund campus innovations and initiatives with potential to be replicated throughout the SUNY system and benefit students and faculty members worldwide.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles was among those cutting the ribbon this week to officially open the Humphrey Nature Center at Letchworth State Park. Letchworth is a short distance southwest of Geneseo and includes an educational partnership with the college for students and faculty to continue year-round teaching and research with the park.

SUNY Geneseo has made another strong showing on the Forbes annual national best-college list, ranking the 63rd best public college in the country and 100th among all public and private colleges in the northeast.