Senior Alyssa Willmarth is among participants in the Geneseo Dance Ensemble's performances this weekend. 

GENESEO, N.Y.—Celebrating its 96th concert performance, SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Theatre and Dance will feature new works by Dance Studies faculty and guest choreographers in its performance, “48Live: New Vistas,” on Feb. 25-28 in the Alice Austin Theatre.

Directed and produced by assistant professor Mark Broomfield ’94, the Geneseo Dance Ensemble promises, “an evening of diverse, dynamic original dance works” for its 48th year. 

GENESEO, N.Y. – Mark Broomfield ‘94, assistant professor of theater and dance, has been awarded a Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation Career Enhancement Fellowship for Junior Faculty.

Justin Behrend, associate professor of history at SUNY Geneseo, has been awarded the 2016 McLemore Prize, which honors “the most distinguished scholarly book on a topic in Mississippi history or biography published in 2015.”

The award recognizes Behrend’s monograph “Reconstructing Democracy: Grassroots Black Politics in the Deep South After the Civil War.”

GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is one of the nation's best colleges for students seeking a superb education with great career preparation and at an affordable price according to The Princeton Review.

The education services company features the school in the 2016 edition of its just published book, “Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck” (Penguin Random House / Princeton Review Books, $21.99, Feb. 2). 

GENESEO, N.Y. -- This week’s snow and subfreezing temperatures were a perfect backdrop for the Alpha Chi Rho fraternity brothers’ 15th Annual Deep Freeze, a week-long around-the-clock camp-out to raise funds in the fight against cancer.

GENESEO, N.Y.—SUNY Geneseo’s String Band Square Dance will take place on Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. in the MacVittie College Union Ballroom. 

The String Band, directed by Department of Music Lecturer Jim Kimball, will be playing live at the event. The String Band will perform a myriad of tunes, including fiddle music and old-time country music.  

The dances are designed for the community, allowing for the participation of any student, faculty member, staff member or community members. The event will include basic dancing instructions.      

GENESEO, N.Y.—The SUNY Geneseo Wind Quintet will feature a new work by Distinguished Service Professor of Music James Walker at its concert Feb. 7 at 3 p.m. in the Doty Recital Hall. The performance is free and open to the public.

“The work that I wrote for them— ‘Moments Past’ — is very challenging and exploits not only the extreme ranges of the instruments, but also the technical aspects of each instrument,” said Walker. “It’s a piece that will show off each of the members in the best possible way.”

GENESEO, N.Y. – Meghan Barrett, a senior from Penfield, N.Y., has received a prestigious Phi Beta Kappa Writing Internship for 2016.

The Phi Beta Kappa chapter at Geneseo recommended Barrett to work this semester with the society’s national office in Washington, D.C., where she will serve through May.

Barrett is a senior with a double major in biology and creative writing. She also is part of the college’s Edgar Fellows Honors Program and was inducted into the Alpha Delta of New York chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in 2015.

SUNY Geneseo Student Ambassador Matthew McClure, the 2014 Gerard Gouvernet Ambassador in French Language and Culture in the Center for Inquiry, Discovery and Development, has spent time in Haiti improving his oral French and Haitian Creole while making lasting friendships. The center is accepting ambassadorship applications for 2016-17 through Jan. 29.

GENESEO, N.Y. – Gwendolyn Simmons, professor of religion at the University of Florida, will deliver the keynote address Jan. 27 during Geneseo’s weeklong commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. Her address, titled “Inconvenient Hero: Martin Luther King” begins at 7 p.m. in Alice Austin Theatre and is open to the public without charge.