Barbara Welker, associate professor of anthropology at SUNY Geneseo, is among recent authors for the Open SUNY Textbooks initiative.
Welker’s textbook, “The History of Our Tribe: Hominini,” examines where humans came from, the nature of our ancestors, how we differ from other animals and how scientists trace and construct evolutionary history.
Could students from the Rochester City School District (RCSD) be instrumental in NASA’s goal to send humans to Mars before the anticipated asteroid event in 2029?
SUNY Geneseo is celebrating the 200th birthday of Henry David Thoreau today and reflecting on the past and present work on campus to advance the legacy of his literary genius.
The late Geneseo faculty member and SUNY Distinguished Professor of English, Walter Harding, was arguably the most influential scholar of Thoreau in the 20th century. Harding taught in Geneseo’s English department from 1956 to 1982, wrote seven books on Thoreau, including “The Day of Henry Thoreau,” which remains a widely cited biography, and helped found the Thoreau Society in 1941.
Professor of Biology Kevin Militello has been awarded a three-year grant of nearly $460,000 from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The award will, in part, help fund undergraduate researchers who will work in Militello’s lab looking for new drug targets in the parasite that causes Trypanosomiasis, commonly known as African Sleeping Sickness.
SUNY Geneseo is among 38 “Best Buy Schools” in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2018 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.
The publication names 38 institutions this year – 20 public and 18 private – as “Best Buys,” categorized as inexpensive or moderately priced with a four- or five-star academic rating. Geneseo has been consistently named to the list for several years.
Last week, Geneseo chefs prepared potato salad for an employee year-end luncheon with garlic scapes harvested from the college’s own learning and experimental garden as the star ingredient.
Student interns that are working with the Office of Sustainability harvested 40 pounds of organic garlic scape, and were delivered them to chefs for processing. They were used for the picnic and also for a culinary training on campus hosted by Chef Michelle Halloran.
Three geography faculty members have received a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research in Undergraduate Institutions (RUI) award of $232,099 for a collaborative research project to assess the environmental and human drivers and the cultural dimension of changes in oak forests in the eastern United States.
The State University of New York is among 11 schools or systems in the nation selected to participate in the 2017-18 OpenStax Institutional Partnership Program to encourage use of free, peer-reviewed textbooks on campus. The SUNY application, submitted by SUNY OER Services at SUNY Geneseo on behalf of the system, was among 42 applications for the program.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Five SUNY Geneseo faculty members, two professional staff members and a member of the college’s classified services are among recipients of Chancellor’s Awards for Excellence for the 2016-17 academic year. The system-wide honors recognize consistently superior professional achievement and encourages the ongoing pursuit of excellence. Chancellor Nancy L.
Two recent SUNY Geneseo graduates have been selected as Rochester Youth Year (RYY) fellows for the 2017-18 school year.
Receiving fellowships are Antoinette Lubich-Claps ’17, a political science major from Brooklyn, N.Y., and Elizabeth Van Son ’16, a geography major from Rochester, N.Y. Both fellows will be working in Rochester City Schools with different assignments.