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). 

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Online and Study Abroad Intersession Courses Expanded for 2020

Geneseo’s successful enhanced intersession term is expanded this year with additional offerings of online and study…

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Geneseo a Forbes Best Value College

SUNY Geneseo has been named to Forbes’ 2019 “America’s Best Value Colleges” list, ranking 115th on the comprehensive…

Tshering Sherpa ’21
Tshering Sherpa ’21 Named Fund for Education Abroad Scholar

Tshering Sherpa ’21 has been named a Fund for Education Abroad (FEA) Scholar for 2019–20. She will travel to Cadiz,…

Janine Rossi '18 and Kelsey Kwandrans '19
Janine Rossi ’18 and Kelsey Kwandrans ’19 Earn Fulbright Awards

Geneseo alumna Janine Rossi ’18 and Kelsey Kwandrans ’19 have won 2019–20 U.S. Student Fulbright awards to Uruguay…

Catherine Shields
Catherine Shields ’19 Earns State Dept. Critical Language Scholarship

Catherine Shields '19 has won a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship. The Grandview Heights, NY,…

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Documentary Highlights Professor’s Longtime Research on Indigenous Land Rights in Ecuador

Geneseo’s Department of Political Science and International Relations will present a special screening of the…

Ethan Smith '20, Ariana Walczyk '19 and Sara Feinland '19 show their art projects for the course.
Students Explore Sustainability Issues Through Art

Students in a spring honors course, “The Politics of Sustainability Through Art,” are exploring environmental…

Tanya M. Smith, Ph.D.
Alumna to Share The Tales Teeth Tell

SUNY Geneseo is hosting biological anthropologist Tanya M. Smith ‘97, Ph.D., for a lecture based on her recent book…

Michael Ruggiero '12 in his lab at University of Vermont
Chemistry Grad Named to Forbes 30 Under 30

Michael Ruggiero ’12, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Vermont (UVM), was recently included…

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Physics & Astronomy Receives APS Undergraduate Education Award

Geneseo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy is one of three undergraduate programs in the United States to earn…

Melanie Medeiros, assistant professor of anthropology, with undergraduate students in Holguín, Cuba.
Geneseo Partners with Cuba’s Universidad de Holguín

On January 11, SUNY Geneseo President Denise A. Battles and Rectora C. Isabel Cristina Torres Torres of the…

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Oberg to Host Local History Workshop

SUNY Distinguished Professor Michael Leroy Oberg is hosting a workshop for nearly 60 local municipal historians on…