SUNY Geneseo marked a significant milestone on April 25 with the official grand opening of the newly renovated Milne Library. The $40 million revitalization project, made possible through the State University of New York Construction Fund and financed by the State of New York, reintroduces the iconic building as a state-of-the-art academic hub designed for 21st-century learning, collaboration, and sustainability.

Rochester Business Journal has selected Denise A. Battles, PhD, president of SUNY Geneseo, as a 2025 Women of Excellence honoree. She will be recognized at an awards celebration on May 8 and profiled in a special RBJ issue on May 9.

The Women of Excellence Awards recognize high-achieving women for their career accomplishments, including professional experience, community involvement, leadership, and sustained commitment to mentoring.

At sunset, you can often find Gabriel Jensen ’12 putting on his scuba gear and loading his camera rig onto a boat with other underwater photographers.

“We dive about five miles offshore into the inky, dark Gulf Stream to water that’s about a thousand feet deep,” says Jensen. “We jump in and drift.”

Jensen uses flash and magnifying lenses to capture tiny deep-sea creatures that are drawn to the surface each night to feed on algae and other marine organisms. Only a fraction of the blackwater life he photographs has been identified in the scientific world.

Six SUNY Geneseo athletic teams will compete in the NCAA postseason during the next two weekends: women’s basketball, men’s ice hockey, men’s and women’s track and field, and men’s and women’s swimming and diving.

“I am so proud of our teams, competing and excelling on the biggest stages,” says Dani Drews, director of intercollegiate athletics and recreation. “It was gratifying and humbling to watch the hard work of our student-athletes pay off. I can’t wait to see them in action again.”

Daniel Hungerman, professor of economics at the University of Notre Dame, will deliver the 2025 Phi Beta Kappa Lecture on Monday, April 7.

The lecture, “Every Day Is Earth Day: Understanding the Long-term Impacts of April 22, 1970,” will be held in Milne Library’s Multipurpose Room A from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.