Academic Affairs News

Mary Toale Appointed as New Provost

Mary C. Toale, Ed.D., has been selected to serve as SUNY Geneseo’s new provost and vice president for academic affairs and will assume the role on March 28.
 

Academic Affairs in the News

The news items below are sorted by date published (newest at the top). 

Alex McGrath and Annie Renaud
Two Students Earn Competitive Critical Language Scholarships

Two SUNY Geneseo students, senior Alex McGrath and sophomore Annie Renaud, have won highly competitive Critical…

GREAT Day
More Than 1,000 Students to Present During GREAT Day April 25

SUNY Geneseo students will be involved in a daylong campus celebration April 25 by presenting their creative and…

Students listening to Professor Jim Kernan in the Canadian Rockies on a hike.
Mountain Class: Geography Students Explore How Communities Work — in the Rockies

In the peaks of the Canadian Rockies, students in this geography class immerse themselves in culture and explore how…

VentureWorks teams
All Five Student Teams Advance to State Finals of Business Plan Competition

All five student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program are advancing to the NYS Business…

Dunn, DuBois, Mebust, Panara
A Banner Fulbright Award Year: Four Winners and One Alternate

Two Geneseo seniors, a graduate student and an alumna have been awarded highly competitive U.S. Fulbright…

Phi Beta Kappa Society
Geneseo to Induct 87 Students into Phi Beta Kappa

The State University of New York at Geneseo will be inducting 87 students into the college’s chapter of Phi Beta…

Maria Gershuni '17
Senior Wins Prestigious Essay Award

Maria Gershuni '17 recently won the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges (COPLAC) David J. Prior Award for an…

Jeffrey Doser and Lara Finnerty-Haggerty
Two Students Land Prestigious Goldwater Scholarships

Two SUNY Geneseo students have received prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for 2017. Juniors Jeffrey Doser…

Karleen West with leader of an Amazon group and Todd Eisenstadt
Professor's Amazon Research Published in National Journals

Assistant Professor of Political Science Karleen West’s research on indigenous reactions to oil development in…

Shayne O'Brien
Shayne O'Brien Receives NSF Graduate Research Fellowship; Accepted to MIT

For the second time and in consecutive years, a Geneseo undergraduate has won a prestigious National Science…

Gillen D'Arcy Wood
‘Year Without a Summer’ is Topic of American Rock Salt Lecture April 6

Gillen D’Arcy Wood, professor of environmental humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, will…

Class in Red Hook, Brooklyn, in front of a mural
Urban Immersion: Geneseo’s Uncommon Study Ground

Red Hook, Brooklyn, was once a struggling neighborhood and is changing dramatically. It is now the college’s newest…