Sustainability News

Sustainability is central to the mission and strategic plan of SUNY Geneseo, and we're proud of the many ways our campus community has effected positive change in the world we all share.

Tarik Kitson '08 with school-aged children posing by a basketball hoop
Tarik Kitson '08: Defender of Youth Sports, Fighting Childhood Obesity.

Tarik Kitson '08 is a health-care administrator at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center — and co-directs Active…

Students study part of the Oak Openings forest in Rush
Geneseo Biology and Geography Students Studying Rare Plant Community

Since 2013, SUNY Geneseo faculty members Kristina Hannam and James Kernan from the Departments of Biology and…

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Keeping New York's Trails Wild

Geological Sciences Chair Ben Laabs published an op-ed piece in the Albany Times Union about the rising popularity…

A student works with a Soaring Stars participant.
Field Trips: Geneseo Programs Meet Education Needs Within the Local Community

At Geneseo, faculty members of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education creating learning opportunities…

Wendy Pogozelski works in the lab with a student.
Geneseo Research Calls for Rethinking Diabetes

In a study published in the journal Nutrition, Wendy Pogozelski, Distinguished Teaching Professor and chair of…

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National Grant to Fund Geosciences Students

Academically talented students with financial need will benefit from a $639,136 grant the National Science…

Students on site in Iceland on a glacier
New Study Abroad Program in Iceland Receiving SUNY Grant Support

A new SUNY Geneseo study abroad program in Iceland is among four winners of 2015-16 SUNY Chancellor’s Grants for…

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Geneseo Wins Five Awards in Business Plan Competition, Including a First Prize

Student teams from SUNY Geneseo’s VentureWorks entrepreneurship program captured a total of five wins in this year’s…

Dan DeZarn talks to CAS employees as they process garlic scapes in the kitchen.
Office of Sustainability Established at Geneseo

In 2012, the college issued a statement about its mission to be increasingly sustainable for the environment and has…

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Bailey Hall Reopens After Renovation

Geneseo cut the ribbon today to officially open the renovated and sustainable Bailey Hall on campus, now home to…

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Geneseo Breaks Top 20 for Producing Peace Corps Volunteers

SUNY Geneseo is among the top colleges and universities in the country in producing volunteers for the Peace Corps,…