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Geneseo’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) is accepting student applications for its 2016-17 Student Ambassadors program. Now in its fifth year, the competitive program offers selected Ambassadors $5,000 awards that support a student-designed project in independent learning and innovative results. Projects may include travel, internship, research, community service, entrepreneurship or other activities and should result in identifiable and transformative results for the individual student and the community.

Gwendolyn Simmons, professor of religion at the University of Florida, will deliver the keynote address Jan. 27 during Geneseo’s weeklong commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Her address, titled “Inconvenient Hero: Martin Luther King” begins at 7 p.m. in Alice Austin theatre and is open to the public without charge.

SUNY Geneseo’s production of the musical “Nine” will employ aerial arts and live-feed video rarely used in Rochester-area theatrical productions.

The 2001 Nobel Laureate in physics, Wolfgang Ketterle, will deliver the 2016 Robert “Duke” Sells lecture in physics Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. in Newton Hall Room 202.

SUNY Geneseo is receiving funding from the newly-established SUNY Investment and Performance Fund to support two programs aimed at helping more students complete their degrees.

SUNY Geneseo and the college/community organization Livingston CARES is preparing for work trips to Biloxi/Gulfport, Miss., and Brooklyn, N.Y., areas during this January’s winter break to continue repairing damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Hurricane Sandy in 2012.

Ava Pascalar, supervising janitor in SUNY Geneseo's Facilities Services Department, has received the college's Gloria and Van Quaal Outstanding Quality Service Award for 2015. The annual award recognizes an individual in the Division of Administration and Finance who has had a consistently high level of performance during his or her career, a recognizable and meaningful impact at the college, and who serves as a role model for others.

SUNY Geneseo has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the Top 300 Best College Values of 2016, ranking 81st on the comprehensive list.

A SUNY Geneseo student is the sole nominee from the United States in a Fairtrade International contest to recognize the “Biggest Fairtrade Fan” in the world for 2016.

GENESEO, N.Y –– The Department of Music will proudly present the Geneseo Wind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Quartet in their holiday concert on Dec. 11 at 8 p.m in Wadsworth Auditorium. The concert is free and open to the public.

A 2006 SUNY Geneseo graduate, Liz Allen, has been named White House deputy communications director and deputy assistant to the president.

SUNY Geneseo’s Dance Ensemble will feature a wide array of student works during its “48Live: Dancing on the Edge” performance Dec. 10 - 13 in the Alice Austin Theatre. The Thursday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday matinee begins at 2 o’clock. Tickets are available for $10 through the Student Association Ticket office or online.

The Geneseo Jazz Ensemble will showcase "Jazz" and celebrate the history and spirit of an art form that has influenced all of American popular music during a concert Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

The Geneseo Chamber Singers and Spectrum Women’s Ensemble will join together on Dec. 6 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall for their second collaborative concert of the semester. The performance is free and open to the public.

Nine SUNY Geneseo students are intently focused on preparing for careers in international relations and global affairs thanks to the scholarships they have received for the 2015-17 academic years from the Jewish Foundation for Education of Women – SUNY International Relations and Global Affairs Program.

Juniors and sophomores from seven area high schools are coming to the SUNY Geneseo campus Dec. 4 to experience a day-long leadership training program created by a Geneseo student focused on empowering tomorrow’s leaders.

Women cross country team took second place and the men third place at the NCAA Div. III championships over the weekend at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.

SUNY Geneseo jointly awarded a Medal of Distinction Nov. 19 to American Rock Salt Co. founder and CEO Joe Bucci and his wife, retired educator and community leader Elaine. The medal is the college’s highest honor recognizing exceptional professional achievement and contributions to society. This year’s recipients are both SUNY Geneseo graduates.

Ganie DeHart, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Psychology, has been named the 2015 Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching New York Professor of the Year.

The Geneseo Festival Chorus and Geneseo Symphony Orchestra will present Joseph Haydn’s epic masterpiece, “The Creation” on Sunday Nov. 22 at 3:00 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Pier Gabrielle Foreman, the Ned B. Allen Professor of English and Professor of Black American Studies at the University of Delaware, will deliver this year’s Walter Harding Lecture Nov. 16 at SUNY Geneseo.

Dance Alum Norwood Pennewell on Campus

The Department of Theatre and Dance will present its first main stage production of the 2015-2016 season, Tina Howe’s “The Art of Dining,” from Nov. 11–15 in Brodie Hall’s Alice Austin Theatre.

William T. Cavanaugh, director of the Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology and professor Catholic Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, will deliver SUNY Geneseo’s 2015 MacVittie Lecture Nov. 10 at 7 p.m. in the Doty Hall Recital Hall. His address, “Does Religion Cause Violence?,” is free and open to the public.

National French Week at Geneseo features a variety of engaging Francophone-centric events from Nov. 9-13