News Archive

Four Geneseo students will be presenting their projects at the annual Clinton Global Initiative University (CGI U) meeting, including senior Benjamin Conard, whose submission has been named a semifinalist for Resolution’s Social Venture Challenge at the CGI U.

SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles has been elected to the Council of Fellows Board of the American Council on Education (ACE). She will also serve the first year of her three-year term as Secretary, an elected officer of the Board’s Executive Committee.

Join alumni, parents, friends and family on Saturday, March 25 in Lake Placid for a reception before the Ice Knights play in the National Championship Semi-Final Game!!

Michael Oberg, Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY Geneseo, has been elected a fellow of the New York Academy of History.

The Geneseo Milne Library and the Geneseo Literary Forum will highlight the work of Association of Writers & Writing Programs Book of Nonfiction Prize winner Sonja Livingston at 6 p.m. on March 7 in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of History is hosting its third annual Teachers Day March 11 when 50 area high school history teachers from a dozen area school districts will hear Geneseo faculty members review scholarly trends in U.S. and global history and areas covered by the New York State Common Core curriculum.

GENtraí, Geneseo’s Irish-American theater ensemble, presents “The Lieutenant of Inishmore” March 3 – 5 in the Robert E. Sinclair Black Box Theatre.

The 37th annual Pre-St. Patrick’s Day Concert will take place on March 5 at 7 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. Directed by SUNY Geneseo faculty member James Kimball, the event will include music and dance performances in the Celtic tradition.

The Geneseo Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women’s Ensemble will perform a joint concert in Doty Recital Hall March 6 at 3 p.m. entitled “Bella Musica Corale.” The concert is free and open to the public, but a large crowd is expected so early arrival is recommended.

The former Peace Corps volunteer created a new business model for a beauty staple that empowers women.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will open its spring season on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

SUNY Geneseo will be hosting the third annual Consortium on High Achievement and Success (CHAS) Women of Color Conference March 4-6.

The Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will open its spring season on Feb. 28 at 3 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and

The Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival (GIFF) will begin its fifth annual short film competition on April 1.

SUNY Geneseo is among the Peace Corps’ top volunteer-producing colleges in the country.

This week’s snow and subfreezing temperatures were a perfect backdrop for SUNY Geneseo’s Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers’ 15th Annual Deep Freeze, a week-long around-the-clock campout to raise funds in the fight against cancer.

SUNY Geneseo has launched the first-ever National Book Review Month (NaRMo).

Celebrating its 96th concert performance, SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance will feature new works by Dance Studies faculty and guest choreographers in its performance, “48Live: New Vistas,” on Feb. 25-28 in the Alice Austin Theatre.

Mark Broomfield ‘94, assistant professor of theater and dance, has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.

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.”

SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking great academics, outstanding career preparation, and generous financial aid – according to The Princeton Review, an academic tutoring, test preparation and college admission service company.

This week’s snow and subfreezing temperatures were a perfect backdrop for SUNY Geneseo’s Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers’ 15th Annual Deep Freeze, a week-long around-the-clock campout to raise funds in the fight against cancer.

Meghan Barrett, a senior from Penfield, N.Y., has received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Writing Internship for 2016.

SUNY Geneseo’s String Band Square Dance will take place on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

The SUNY Geneseo Wind Quintet will feature a new work by Distinguished Professor of Music James Walker at its concert Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Doty Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.