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The Geneseo Wind Quintet will perform on Nov. 8 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall, showcasing the excellent faculty musicianship at the college. The concert is free and open to the public.

Geneseo’s musical theatre majors will present the musical revue “And the World Goes Round” as part of their Page to Stage program from Nov. 4 - 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The performance features the music of celebrated Broadway songwriting duo John Kander and Fred Ebb.

Wendi Kinney, assistant dean of students for fraternal life and off-campus services, is the recipient of the 2015 Sue Kraft Fussell Distinguished Service Award from the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors.

The Geneseo String Band will be hosting and performing at their square dance event on Nov. 7 from 7 - 10 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

The Kinetic Gallery unveils a stirring exhibit by Margaret and Notch Miyake, documenting the story of the more than 120,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned in concentration camps during World War II.

SUNY Geneseo ranked first among the 500 colleges in the nation with bachelor’s-only physics departments for producing the largest number of students graduating with a physics degree from 2012-2014.

The Geneseo Wind Ensemble, Clarinet Choir and Saxophone Quartet will perform in Wadsworth Auditorium on Oct. 30 at 8:00 p.m.

The college celebrates 25 years of the Roemer Arboretum, an outdoor classroom and oasis — and an ecosystem with war and peace played out on a tiny scale.

Cooking classes. Kosher. Artfully plated meals. A pastry chef. Letchworth Dining Hall is reborn.

Tarik Kitson '08 is a health-care administrator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — and co-directs Active Plus, a nonprofit organization with an expanding set of programs to combat youth obesity.

SUNY Geneseo’s new president, Denise A. Battles, was installed yesterday during her inauguration ceremony on campus in Wadsworth Auditorium.

Wadsworth Auditorium will host a special concert in honor of the Presidential Inauguration on Friday, October 23. The concert will feature the best in Opera, Jazz, String Band, Musical Theatre, A Cappella and Percussion Ensemble.

An uncommon mix of music and vocal range will be presented at a joint concert featuring the Geneseo Chamber Singers and the Spectrum Women’s Ensemble, which will take place at 8:00 p.m. on Oct. 16 in Doty Recital Hall.

A series of events are underway at SUNY Geneseo leading up to the inauguration Oct. 22 of Denise A. Battles, the second woman to lead the college as permanent president in the college’s 144-year history.

Further work on Geneseo’s new eGarden is underway, with Director of Sustainability Dan DeZarn expressing his delight in seeing its evolution thus far. The garden is a one-acre, off-grid education and research facility that focuses on renewable energy, organic agriculture and sustainable organic waste management.

Since 2013, SUNY Geneseo faculty members Kristina Hannam and James Kernan from the Departments of Biology and Geography, respectively, have been taking students to a site in southern Monroe County to collaborate on studying a rare plant community where trees once grew in open stands among grasses and other vegetation, known as an “oak opening.”

The State University of New York at Geneseo will host the fifth annual Front Porch Republic conference, “Sustainable Localism: Sages, Prophets, and Jesters,” Saturday, Oct. 3 in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom.

SUNY Geneseo has joined a diverse coalition of public and private colleges and universities with the goal of improving the college admission application process for all students. The coalition is developing a free platform of online tools to streamline the experience of planning for and applying to college.

Geneseo’s annual fall Honors Recital will take place Sept. 26 at 3 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. The concert will feature classical pieces performed by flutist Megan Martel; sopranos Francesca DiGiorgio and Brianna Kelly, and French hornist Katherine Zaslavsky. Also performing are saxophonist Alec Friedman, cellist Harrison Hartsough, and pianists Shiho Azuma and Xiangjing Chen.

Geological Sciences Chair Ben Laabs published an op-ed piece in the Albany Times Union about the rising popularity of hiking, and the importance of preserving New York's trails.

For the fifth time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching” rankings among north region universities in its just-published “Best Colleges 2016” guide. Geneseo has ranked first in that category for five of the six years “U.S. News” has included it in its annual rankings.

Polish-born composer and pianist Beata Golec––a Geneseo adjunct lecturer in music––will perform in “The Color of Emotions” faculty recital on Sept. 11 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. Rebeca Boyd, a violinist and Eastman Community Music School teacher that Golec has collaborated with previously, will assist her in the concert.

Patrick X. Rault, associate professor of mathematics at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious Henry L. Alder Award for Distinguished Teaching from the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) to recognize the quality of his undergraduate teaching. The award ceremony will take place at the upcoming 100th anniversary conference of the MAA in Washington, D.C.

Washington Monthly magazine has ranked SUNY Geneseo fifth overall among the nation’s master's 673 universities for its contribution to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research and civic engagement, and promoting an ethic of service to country. It’s the third year in a row that Geneseo has been in the top five schools in the rankings.

SUNY Geneseo campus photographer Keith Walters, a 2011 graduate of the college, has landed three awards in the 2015 University Photographers Association of America (UPAA) national competition.