Composer Gregory Spears will deliver the 2019 Walter Harding Lecture at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, September 25 in Doty Recital Hall on the SUNY Geneseo campus. Spears’ lecture, “Thoreau and Music,” is free and open to the public.
New and returning students and faculty are settling in for the start of the 2019–20 academic year as classes begin.
The College officially welcomed new students to campus during New Student Convocation Friday evening, which included a keynote address by Monica Schneider, professor of psychology, on the commitment to community, diversity, and inclusivity students can find on this campus.
Washington Monthly magazine has again ranked SUNY Geneseo second overall among 606 master’s universities in the nation for its contributions to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research, and promoting public service. To be at the top of the ranking, colleges need to “be excellent across the full breadth of our measures, rather than excelling in just one measure,” the editors note. It’s the seventh year in a row that Geneseo has been in the top five of their classification.
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, SUNY Geneseo’s Women’s and Gender Studies program and the Livingston County Historical Society present Susan B. Anthony: Is It a Crime to Vote?, a one-woman reenactment of critical moments in the life of the suffragist.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded an $883,754 grant to SUNY Geneseo to support women faculty in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math).
SUNY Geneseo is one of 50 institutions to receive the 2019 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award from INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. The award honors colleges and universities that encourage and assist students from underrepresented groups in entering the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).
SUNY Geneseo has again been selected as one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education by The Princeton Review. The education services company features Geneseo in its 2020 edition of The Best 385 Colleges. About 13 percent of America's four-year colleges profiled in the book.
Geneseo also appears on Princeton Review’s Best Regional Colleges list for the Northeast and their most recent 399 Green Colleges list. Colleges that appear on these lists are not in a ranked order.
The Department of Student Health and Counseling will open the new South Village Health Center in Onondaga Hall in Fall 2019. The center will provide easier accessibility to the students, primarily first-years, who reside on the south side of campus.
SUNY Geneseo has been named to Forbes’ 2019 list for America’s Best Value Colleges, ranking 115th on the comprehensive list of 300 public and private colleges, up from 175th when Forbes first began the ranking in 2016. The College ranks fifth out of the ten SUNY institutions on the list.
SUNY Geneseo students raised $150,197 in this year’s Relay For Life, an annual fundraiser that supports the American Cancer Society. The student-run 12-hour event in the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena was packed with performances, activities, and speakers to help to raise money for cancer research and services for cancer patients.
“This year’s Relay For Life was a huge success,” said Katherine Bensburg '19, a childhood/special education major from Mahopac, NY, and president of Geneseo’s Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) organization.