The College community will celebrate Earth Week, April 15–25, with speakers, a Garden Fest, demonstrations, campus clean-ups, art installations, and other activities highlighting worldwide environmental issues and ways individuals can make a difference.

Campus Canvas starts off programming on Monday, April 15, as students erect individual and collaborative art projects around campus for a week-long display focusing on the theme of movement. The Geneseo Environmental Organization (GEO) will also give away reusable cutlery and paper embedded with seeds for easy planting.

During her sophomore year of college, Catherine (Cate) Shields ’19 read Amin Maalouf’s Samarkand, a novel about the 11th-century Persian poet Omar Khayyám and the creation of his poetry collection The Rubáiyát. “Maalouf’s book showed me a way to link the poetry, philosophy, and passion of the mystic past with the modern world,” she said.

The SUNY Geneseo Department of Music’s Musical Theatre Program’s latest production, Pippin, runs next week, April 10–13, at 7:30 p.m., with an additional matinee performance at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 14. All performances are in the Alice Austin Theater on Geneseo’s campus. Tickets are $15 general admission, $10 for students, and are available online or cash only at the door an hour before curtain. Content and suggestive situations make this show most appropriate for ages 12 and up.

In celebration of Earth Day on Monday, April 22, the Buildings and Grounds Advisory Committee will join with Facilities Services and the Office of Sustainability to revive a college tradition — campus beautification. The effort kicks off with Spruce Up Day, with plans for an Adopt-a-Garden program to follow.

SUNY Geneseo is ranked No. 13 among medium-sized schools on the Peace Corps’ 2019 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges and Universities list. Currently, 22 Geneseo alumni are volunteering with the worldwide program.

This is the fifth consecutive year that Geneseo has ranked among the top 25 medium-size schools, defined as having an enrollment of 5,000–15,000 undergraduate students. SUNY Binghamton, No. 19 in the medium-size category, is the only other school in the SUNY system to make the 2019 list in any category.

SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Student Health and Counseling was recently designated as a “Medical Home” by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Centers (AAAHC). Of the nearly 4,000 higher education institutions in the U.S., only 17 have achieved Medical Home accreditation, considered by the AAAHC as the highest achievement for primary care. 

Students in a spring honors course, The Politics of Sustainability Through Art, are exploring in a creative way environmental concerns and the politics that affect sustainability issues.

In addition to examining background readings on climate change, food sustainability, and other problems, students view and discuss relevant artwork by artists from around the world and create their own visual art inspired by their learning.