GENESEO, N.Y. – For the fifth time, SUNY Geneseo tops the “U.S. News & World Report” Best Undergraduate Teaching” rankings among north region universities in its just-published “Best Colleges 2016” guide. Geneseo has ranked first in that category for five of the six years “U.S. News” has included it in its annual rankings.
Polish-born composer and pianist Beata Golec––a Geneseo adjunct lecturer in music––will perform in “The Color of Emotions” faculty recital on Sept. 11 from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in Doty Recital Hall. Rebeca Boyd, a violinist and Eastman Community Music School teacher that Golec has collaborated with previously, will join her in the concert.
Golec explained that title of the recital comes from her desire to change the generally negative outlook toward modern music.
GENESEO, N.Y. – Washington Monthly magazine has ranked SUNY Geneseo fifth overall among the nation’s 673 master's universities for its contribution to the public good across three broad categories: social mobility, research and civic engagement, and promoting an ethic of service to country. It’s the third year in a row that Geneseo has been in the top five schools in the rankings.
SUNY Geneseo campus photographer Keith Walters, a 2011 graduate of the college, has landed three awards in the 2015 University Photographers Association of America (UPAA) national competition.
Rising fifth- through 10th-grade students from the Rochester City School District are on the SUNY Geneseo campus through July 24 investigating the culture and science of cooking during the college’s annual Rochester Young Scholars Academy camp (RYSAG).
GENESEO, N. Y. -- SUNY Geneseo senior Maydelis Minaya, one of five Geneseo students with a Jewish Foundation for Education of Women (JFEW) scholarship, is among those featured on a SinoVision English television report titled “Not Your Average Summer School.”
Minaya, from New York City, was touring the Chinese Consulate in New York as part of the internship component of her scholarship program when the U.S.-based Chinese network was preparing the report.
Denise A. Battles began her tenure today as SUNY Geneseo’s 13th president. The SUNY Board of Trustees appointed Battles to the position in January following a national search, becoming the second woman to lead the college as permanent president in the college’s 144-year history. She will be officially installed as president during an inaugural ceremony Oct. 22 on campus.
GENESEO, N.Y. – SUNY Geneseo is among 44 “Best Buy Schools” in the U.S., Canada and the United Kingdom, named in the 2016 edition of “The Fiske Guide to Colleges.” Inclusion on the list in the highly respected publication is based on the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.
SUNY Geneseo faculty member Glenn McClure has completed a new choral work that the European Space Operations Center Chorus will perform in Darmstadt, Germany, June 28 to celebrate the center’s successful comet landing last November. The work is also in celebration of 25th anniversary of the chorus.
A new SUNY Geneseo study abroad program in Iceland is among four winners of 2015-16 SUNY Chancellor’s Grants for Innovative Study Abroad Programs, which supports unique opportunities that increase student mobility overseas.
Chancellor Nancy L. Zimpher announced the grants today, which amount to $4,000 in funding to offset the cost to students.