Three SUNY Geneseo students have received the 2022 Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence. SUNY Chancellor Deborah F. Stanley presented the awards to Catherine Grossman '22, Morgan Michalski '22, and Luis Yanez Zamora '22.
Sarah Fadlaoui ’22, from Ellicott City, MD, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant Award to Germany. Fadlaoui is a history and adolescence education major with a minor in German. She becomes the 44th Geneseo US Student Fulbright awardee and the fourth to Germany.
In a new article published in the Journal of Biogeography, SUNY Geneseo geographer Associate Professor Stephen Tulowiecki and four undergraduate researchers in the Department of Geography and Sustainability Studies examined the influence of Native American land use on the composition of historic forests in the Northeastern United States.
Harry Harkins ’21 has received the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange for Young Professionals (CBYX) Fellowship for 2022–23, funded by the German Bundestag and US Congress. Harkins holds a BA in international relations with a concentration in global political economy and a minor in German.
Kallie Swyer ’17, from Guilderland, NY, has won a 2022–23 US Student Fulbright Study/Research Award in creative writing for Lithuania with a project titled The Language of Memory: Writing as Resistance and Remembrance (Poetry). Swyer holds a BA in English with a concentration in creative writing and a minor in sociology.
SUNY Geneseo was recently named to Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society’s Transfer Honor Roll in recognition of the dynamic pathways the College has created to support transfer students.
It is the second year in a row Geneseo has been named to the honor roll, and Geneseo is one of four SUNY institutions to receive the 2022 recognition.
D. Jeffrey Over, professor of geological sciences, has won a highly competitive 2022–23 Fulbright U.S. Scholar award and will spend Fall 2022 at Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. Over’s grant brings to 13 the number of Fulbright or Fulbright-Hayes awards Geneseo faculty members have received in the past ten years.
SUNY Geneseo's library has reclaimed the old pool in Schrader Hall as a satellite storage facility for the print book collection. Transporting the collection was a lengthy collaborative undertaking for library staff and Facilities Planning and Construction.
Biophysics major Emma Parker ’24, geological sciences major Kaitlyn Gerstler ’23, and physics and sustainability studies double major Kayla Andersen ’24 have been awarded internship scholarships to do research this summer in Germany.