GENESEO, N.Y. – The SUNY Geneseo Music Department’s opening musical theater production this semester is the Tony Award-winning comedy “Company” with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by George Furth.

The production, often called the first concept musical, is on the Wadsworth Auditorium stage Nov. 1-5. The Wednesday through Saturday performances begin at 7:30 p.m. The Sunday matinee begins at 2 o’clock. Tickets are $15 for the general public, $10 for students and are available online.

Over 150 academic and professional geographers from Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania gathered on the Geneseo campus Oct. 20 and  21 for the 2017 Middle States Division of the American Association of Geographers (MSDAAG) conference.

SUNY Geneseo recently earned a national accolade for the participation of students who choose to study abroad.

Geneseo is ranked 26th by the Institute of International Education among all master-granting institutions and first among public master-granting institutions for the highest study abroad participation, through the institute’s Open Doors report. The Open Doors report is funded by a federal U.S. State Department grant and serves colleges and universities as an informational resource for campus internationalization.

GENESEO, N.Y. – Ten SUNY Geneseo students are serving as ambassadors in the college’s Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development (CIDD) for the 2017-18 school year. 

SUNY Geneseo will host close to 100 area teachers on Monday, Oct. 9, as part of the first New York Teachers Summit. The event, organized by the SUNY System, is an extension of the TeachNY program, which aims to elevate and support the teaching profession.

Geneseo is one of eight SUNY campuses across the state selected to participate in the summit, which is expected to bring together about 2,500 pre-service and in-service teachers. Activities begin at 8:30 a.m. and run through to 4 p.m.

October is Campus Sustainability Month at SUNY Geneseo and the college community is hosting a variety of lectures, workshops and hands-on events to raise awareness, spark discussion and promote personal involvement. Held every October, Campus Sustainability Month is an international celebration of sustainability in higher education, organized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).

GENESEO, N.Y. – Alexis Leslie, a sophomore from Buffalo, N.Y., is in a study abroad program in Cape Town, South Africa this semester, thanks to a Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship she recently earned. She is the 19th Geneseo student to win this State Department award since 2010 and the 21st overall.

Vincent Markowski, associate professor of psychology at SUNY Geneseo, was recently awarded a nearly $400,000 Academic Research Enhancement Award (AREA) research grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Markowski will use the three-year grant to study the cognitive effects of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, the drug found in marijuana.

GENESEO, N.Y. -- Geneseo graduates Kiaya Rose Dilsner-Lopez '17 and Patrick McCormick ’15 have been awarded U.S. Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) awards to Brazil for 2018.

Author and environmental activist Bill McKibben will deliver the 2017 Walter Harding Lecture Sept. 30 at 4 p.m. in Wadsworth Auditorium on the SUNY Geneseo campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.