2017 Geneseo Relay for Life GENESEO, N.Y.— “Small, but mighty.”

Those are the words SUNY Geneseo’s Colleges Against Cancer (CAC) uses to describe SUNY Geneseo and its students, and the 12th annual Relay for Life event on April 8 at the Wilson Ice Arena lived up to the description.

The State University of New York at Geneseo will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring, prompted by their recent election by the college’s faculty. Phi Beta Kappa is the nation’s oldest and most widely known academic honor society. Students from both the junior and senior classes are selected each spring for membership into the organization.

GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is among 83 campuses in 23 states recently designated a “Voter-Friendly Campus” by the national nonpartisan organizations Campus Vote Project (CVP) and NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education.

PeacePictured left to right are Freddie Greene Biddle, Jennifer Lawson and Karen Spellman.

SUNY Geneseo's annual April commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy will feature panel discussions with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) activists Jennifer Lawson, Karen Spellman, and Freddie Greene Biddle. 

Climate ActionGENESEO, N.Y. — Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will deliver the 14th Annual American Rock Salt Lecture April 6 at 7:30 p.m. in Newton Hall 202. The lecture, titled “Frankenstein’s Weather: The Year Without a Summer, 1816,” is free and open to the public.

Volunteer and service ProgramEach year, some 4,400 Geneseo students contribute 205,000 community service hours — equal to 1,220 weeks of round-the-clock volunteering. It's an effort that consistently earns the college a place on the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.