SUNY Geneseo recently welcomed 150 high school students and professional mentors from across New York State for Camp College, a 3-day college-access experience for upper-level high school students. The program, which is free to participants, is coordinated by the New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC).
Seven SUNY Geneseo student-athletes were named recipients of the 2017-18 State University of New York Scholar-Athlete Award, in recognition of outstanding academic excellence and athletic achievement. SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson recognized all of this year’s recipients in announcing the awards Wednesday.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo’s Career Design Center has implemented a new career management system that greatly enhances the department’s ability to manage job and internship postings, run career fairs and track student usage.
The system, called Handshake, is unique among career management systems because it allows the more than 500 participating campuses to engage with every employer in the system.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Two SUNY Geneseo faculty members have received highly competitive Fulbright Awards for the Spring 2019 semester.
Denise Scott, professor of sociology, will conduct research at the H.N.B. Garhwal University in Srinagar, India, and Jun Okada, associate professor of English, will teach and conduct research at the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema, Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, in Lisbon, Portugal.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- For Sarah Phillips ’18, winning a U.S. Student Fulbright award to Colombia as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA) means infinitely more than just being given the opportunity to represent her country, travel, and teach. She will have a chance to share the gift of potentially life-changing language abilities that so many of the world’s citizens are never afforded.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Aspiring film producer Shauna Ricketts ’18 fell in love with the art and educational power of documentaries while studying abroad during the spring 2017 semester in Southeast Asia at Thailand’s Mahidol University. Her coursework encouraged her to analyze contemporary issues in Southeast Asia through an interdisciplinary lens focusing on ethnicity, nationalism and the social constructions surrounding women in Southeast Asia.
GENESEO, N.Y. – A student team from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program won first place in the advanced technology track in the finals of the ninth annual New York State Business Plan Competition (NYBPC) April 27 in Albany.
SUNY Geneseo has named robbie rifka routenberg ‘05 as the College’s first chief diversity officer (CDO), effective May 31.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Julianne Sweeney '16 has won a National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship in the area of geosciences. Sweeney, a Geneseo native, graduated with a degree in geological sciences and then worked as a research technician for the Geneseo Department of Geological Sciences under the advisement of Nicholas Warner, assistant professor of geological sciences. She is currently employed at EagleView, an aerial imagery company.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Waderlie Mendez ’20 has been named a Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) Scholar for 2018-19 and will travel to Cadiz, Spain, and around the country this summer to study Spanish language and culture. The sophomore psychology major is the first Geneseo student to win this award and joins a class of 100 Scholars chosen from a pool of more than 2,300 applicants representing approximately 517 colleges and universities across the country.