GENESEO, N.Y. -- The State University of New York Board of Trustees today appointed Denise A. Battles, currently provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs at the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW), as the new president of SUNY Geneseo. Her appointment is effective on or about July 1, 2015.

SUNY Geneseo recognized individual students and student organizations, a faculty member and community partners with 2015 Volunteer and Service Awards recently during the college’s annual volunteer and service awards dinner. The college’s Advisory Committee on Volunteer and Service Programs created the awards in 2011 to recognize the awardees for their high level of commitment to service with the college’s community partners.