Brandon Perez '23, a history major from the Bronx, NY, has won a 2022–23 Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) Gateway International Group Scholarship to help fund his Fall 2022 semester study abroad to Rikkyo University in Japan. FEA provides scholarships for international experiences to students who are underrepresented among the U.S. study abroad population.
Michael Hughes ’20 has won a 2022–23 U.S. Student Fulbright Austria Community-Based Combined Award to serve in Vienna as an English Teaching Assistant and work as a counselor and mentor with a community-based non-profit youth organization. Hughes will also take German language and internationally based NGO and public policy classes at the University of Vienna.
The Department of Philosophy is offering a new minor starting in the Fall 2022 semester. The interdisciplinary ethics and values in society minor includes foundational coursework in philosophy, topical course choices from more than a dozen disciplines, and a student capstone experience.
Oberlin College geologist Amanda Schmidt, Ph.D. will deliver this year’s American Rock Salt Lecture in Geology on Thursday, March 24 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall room 214 on the SUNY Geneseo campus. Schmidt’s talk, “People, Erosion, and Chemistry: Tracking the Effects of People on Watershed Process in China and Cuba,” is free and open to the public.
Four undergraduate physics students will deliver presentations at the American Physical Society’s in-person annual meeting this April. Their work is based on research by Professor Savi Iyer and Assistant Professor Thomas Osburn from the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Osburn will also present his research.
The School of Business is introducing a new data analytics major for undergraduate students interested in the science of identifying trends and patterns in raw data and drawing conclusions.
“Wineries hire chemists,” a California friend of Andy Robinson ’99 told him in 2001. “Why don’t you come out here to work a grape harvest?” Robinson, a graduate of SUNY Geneseo and Columbia University’s 3+2 program in chemical engineering, was between jobs and applying to grad schools—unsure what he wanted to do with his degree but sure he didn’t want to work for the oil or pharmaceutical industries. Why not try a winery, he thought.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance Studies proudly presents the Geneseo Dance Ensemble concert In Clear Sight featuring performances by Dance Studies faculty guest artist and student choreographers with 33 performers. The concert, artistically directed, curated, and produced by professor of dance studies Jonette Lancos, will be presented in the Alice Austin Theatre on March 3–5, at 7:30 p.m., and March 6 at 2 p.m.
SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Music & Musical Theatre will welcome composer-in-residence Jocelyn Hagen on February 15–17. In addition, her commission of a new choral work in honor of the college’s 150th anniversary will receive its world premiere by the Geneseo Chamber Singers on March 6 at Central Presbyterian Church in Geneseo.