Geneseo students and faculty will offer a day of free entertainment at this year’s Rochester Fringe Festival. Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 23, at the Lyric Theatre at 440 East Ave. in Rochester, performances will include music, artwork and spoken word.

The Fringe Festival is a 10-day, multi-disciplinary visual and performing arts festival featuring international, national and local artists and showcases theater, comedy, visual arts, family entertainment, music, dance, spoken word, opera, poetry and literature.

This story originally appeared in the Geneseo Scene alumni magazine. Read it and view Glenn McClure's photo gallery from Antarctica. 

It’s a typical spring morning at Sweet Arts Bakery on Main Street in Geneseo. Students, teachers and townspeople come and go: There’s laughter, there’s the clank of dishes, there’s conversation.

This article was originally published in the Geneseo Scene alumni magazine. Read it and other articles in our newest issue. View our exclusive Peace Corps Scrapbook to read memories of volunteers, and submit your own Peace Corps story.

GENESEO, N.Y. – The opportunity for undergraduate students to participate in research has become an important part of Geneseo’s academic culture. Although many student participate in research during the academic year, summer is also a busy undergraduate research period. More than 60 students have been on campus this summer working in labs and elsewhere with their faculty mentors, thanks to support from the Geneseo Foundation in cooperation with the SUNY Research Council.

GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best institutions for undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The education services company features the college in the just-published 2018 edition of its annual flagship college guide, "The Best 382 Colleges." About 15% of America's 2,500 four-year colleges and two colleges outside of the United States are profiled in the book. SUNY Geneseo has consistently been on the list for a number of years.

GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo’s summer learning program for elementary school students in rural areas is in its sixth year and Program Director Annmarie Urso continues to be pleased with the educational and social progress the students make.

GENESEO, N.Y. – A recent visit to Lithuania’s Alytus College by Meredith Harrigan, associate professor of communication at SUNY Geneseo, has helped reinforce Geneseo’s involvement in globally networked learning (GNL).

GNL is an approach to international relationship-building that encourages worldwide academic collaboration by students and faculty while being apart from one another.

GENESEO, N.Y. – Here's today's Final Jeopardy! answer: This SUNY Geneseo alumnus amassed five straight wins and $112,000 in winnings on a popular nationally syndicated game show.

The correct question is: Who is Justin Vossler ’11?

Two SUNY Geneseo students were interviewed recently on the France 3 public television channel during their study abroad class’s visit to the Historial de la Grande Guerre (World War I museum) in Péronne, north of Paris.

GENESEO, N.Y. -- Rising senior Kendon Bates ’18 presented his research earlier this summer at the Disability Studies in Education conference in Minneapolis, Minn.

Bates, who is majoring in childhood education with special education, and a concentration in history, based his presentation on a fall project he prepared for Associate Professor Linda Ware’s required curriculum course for majors.