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SUNY Geneseo students will participate in a daylong campus celebration April 19 by presenting their creative and scholarly endeavors during the college’s 10th annual GREAT Day—Geneseo Recognizing Excellence, Achievement & Talent. In addition to the plethora of students that will be showcasing their work through presentations, performances and exhibits, the astronomer at the Vatican Observatory and President of the Vatican Observatory Foundation, Brother Guy Consolmagno, will deliver the keynote address.

The Department of Music’s Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women’s Ensemble will present a joint concert on April 24 to commemorate the work of William Shakespeare.

Seven teams from Geneseo move on to the final round of the New York Business Plan Competition

Geneseo Piano Trio’s second concert since the group's formation will take place on April 17.

Geochemist and biochemist Nita Sahai will deliver the 13th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture on April 14 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the lecture—titled “The Potential Roles of Minerals in the Origins of Life”—will take place in Newton Hall Room 202.

Teams from six area colleges compete at SUNY Geneseo for $500,000 in prizes in the regional New York State Business Plan Competition.

Four SUNY Geneseo students were selected to travel to the University of California, Berkeley for the 2016 Clinton Global Initiative University conference.

SUNY Geneseo students raised an unprecedented $173,282.51 in Saturday’s 11th annual Relay for Life, a fundraiser that supports the American Cancer Society (ACS). In aiding the ACS, the student-run event helped not only to raise money for cancer research, but also to sustain services for cancer patients.

Robert Musil, president and CEO of the Rachel Carson Council (RCC), will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s second annual President’s Sustainability Lecture April 12 at 2:30 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom. As a part of Geneseo’s Earth Week celebrations, Musil’s speech “Rachel Carson & Her New York Legacy” will examine Rachel Carson and what her effect has been not only on New York State, but also on women involved in Western New York sustainability.

Three students from The State University of New York at Geneseo have received a 2016 Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will not only include its orchestra of close to 70 musicians for its April 9 performance, but it will also feature the Geneseo student winners from the 2015 Concerto Competition.

A SUNY Geneseo student has received a prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and another received an honorable mention in the highly competitive national competition.

Students Brandon Mark '16 and Zachary Hallenbeck '16 have built a unique solar-powered golf cart as part of an eGarden project. The design employs rotating panel mount to maximize efficiency.

Geneseo is involved with two upcoming teacher recruitment fairs.

Geneseo pride took Mascot Madness 2016 by storm, defeating universities with three and four times the campus' enrollment.

SUNY Geneseo’s spring production of the musical “Into the Woods” will not only amuse audience members, but it will enlighten them, too.

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The guide included Geneseo in four other categories: Best Northeastern Colleges; Top 50 Green Colleges; and the Top 200 Colleges That Pay You Back.

Anthony J. Macula, SUNY Geneseo professor of mathematics, has been awarded a 2015-16 American Association for the Advancement of Science/American Mathematical Society Congressional Fellowship.

Geneseo has been certified as one of 254 Tree Campus USA colleges for its commitment to sustaining a healthy environment.

Faculty members at the State University of New York at Geneseo have elected 84 students to the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, 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.

Geneseo has dedicated a decade of volunteer efforts to Katrina recovery. What is the true impact of our work?

Daisy steps out, Duke darting out with a bark to see who’s coming. The front door, displaying a black wreathe carefully wrapped in gold ribbon, opens to a living room in black and reds.

It’s the same frame, but inside, her home is new. Katrina flooding rose seven feet, wiping away more than 47 years of her family’s life.

It’s been eight years since Gladys Daniels, 83, opened the front door to her home for the first time again.

Livingston CARES made a 10-year commitment to Biloxi and Harrison County, Miss., following Hurricane Katrina. Harrison County recognizes the difference volunteers have made.

SUNY Geneseo recognized individuals, student organizations, and the Geneseo Fire Department with volunteer and service awards during the college’s annual Volunteer and Service Awards Dinner March 22. The college’s Advisory Committee on Volunteer and Service Programs created the awards in 2011 to recognize the awardees for their high level of commitment to service with the college’s community partners.