A four-member team of students from Geneseo’s School of Business has won the Third Annual FDIC Academic Challenge, a national com
Geneseo has a week of events planned in celebration of Earth Day on April 22.
The Office of Sustainability and members from more than five student organizations, including the Green Environmental Org (GEO), Genny Thrift, eGarden committee, compost committee, and Plastic Free Zone are spearheading activities.
Bryan Gilman-Orozco ’23, a Spanish major from Hudson, MA, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright English Teaching Assistant (ETA) award to Colombia.
Barnabas Gikonyo, director of introductory chemistry labs and lecturer at SUNY Geneseo, has received the prestigious 2023 Stanley C. Israel Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Committee on Minority Affairs.
It starts with real money—close to $700,000, provided to Geneseo’s Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) by The Geneseo Foundation. Teams of SMIF students then spend the year researching stocks, making pitches, investing money, and learning the perils and profits of investment funds.
Julia Grunes ’23, an English (creative writing) and psychology double major from Monroe, NY, has won a 2023–24 US Student Fulbright award to Israel. She will spend the year as an English Teaching Assistant in Netanya, a Mediterranean resort city in central Israel.
SUNY Geneseo is designated a “Voter Friendly Campus” for 2023–24 through a program sponsored by NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and Fair Election Center’s Campus Vote Project.
Cora Woloson ’23, from Canandaigua, NY, has won a highly competitive Critical Language Scholarship award to study Hindi during Summer 2023 in Jaipur, India, at the American Institute of Indian Studies. Woloson is an international relations major with a minor in political science and a concentration in the developing world.
SUNY Geneseo alum Molly Smith Metzler ’00, MA, MFA, will receive an honorary degree at this year’s undergraduate Commencement ceremony on Saturday afternoon, May 20.
State University of New York Chancellor John B. King Jr., EdD, will address SUNY Geneseo’s undergraduate Commencement ceremonies this year on Saturday, May 20.