GENESEO, N.Y. – The SUNY Geneseo Music Department’s opening production this semester will be the local premiere of “Carrie, the Musical,” coming to the Wadsworth Auditorium stage Jan. 18-22. The first four 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.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- SUNY Geneseo’s seventh annual "Day of Leadership and Service" program Jan. 16 will celebrate the work and teachings of Martin Luther King Jr. on the 31st anniversary of the federal holiday commemorating the life of the civil rights leader.
The college plans the day as an inter-generational and interfaith event with SUNY Geneseo students and area senior citizen volunteers learning and working together on important community outreach efforts.
Geneseo has been named to Kiplinger’s Personal Finance’s list of the “Top 300 Best College Values of 2017,” ranking 115th in a combined ranking of private universities, liberal arts colleges, and public colleges. The best value rankings included data from nearly 1,200 public and private four-year schools.
Geneseo students fulfilling their general education natural science requirements stand a good chance of finding Dori. Not the animated Pacific blue tang (paracanthurus hepatus) voiced by Ellen DeGeneres in Disney/Pixar’s “Finding Nemo” and “Finding Dory,” but rather, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences Dori Farthing — who admits that she doesn’t “speak whale.”
Geneseo Director of Student Care Services and Title IX Coordinator for Students Tamara Kenney and student volunteers are supporting “SUNY’s Got Your Back," the SUNY system-wide effort to provide victims of sexual and interpersonal violence with care packages of essential items and clothing.
The project, led by SUNY’s Title IX Coordinators Association, provides victims and survivors “comfort bags” of necessary items, such as a toothbrush, soap and shampoo upon their arrival at local shelters and hospitals.
GENESEO, N.Y. -- Three SUNY Geneseo musical theater students and a recent alumnus from the program are in the cast of the current production of “A Christmas Carol” at Rochester’s Geva Theatre Center through Dec. 24. The musical director of the production is Don Kot, director of Geneseo’s Musical Theatre Program.
This weekend will mark the last home appearances of SUNY Geneseo’s athletic teams in 2016, highlighted by the Teddy Bear Toss at the men’s hockey game on Friday, Dec. 2.
The sixth-annual event is sponsored by SUNY Geneseo Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) and the men’s hockey team. All in attendance are encouraged to throw a new or gently-used stuffed animal onto the ice following the Knights’ first goal of the contest. Game time is 7 p.m. at the Ira S. Wilson Ice Arena, with SUNYAC rival Fredonia providing the opposition.
SUNY Geneseo Distinguished Service Professor of Education Dennis Showers is not involved in the Dakota Access Pipeline/Standing Rock protest. Or the Paris Climate Accord discussions. Or Wall Street’s recent surge fueled in part by rising energy stocks.
Not directly, that is.
Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor society, is celebrating “Keys to Action Week” December 5- 12 in honor of the 240th anniversary of the society’s founding on December 5, 1776. Since its founding, Phi Beta Kappa has established the model and standard for academic honor societies in the United States and beyond.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo’s premier choral ensemble, the Geneseo Chamber Singers, has a busy December with multiple concerts scheduled over the next two weeks.