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.

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…

Meara Bowe '15 with Botswanan girls.
Peace Corps Voices: Meara Bowe '15, at the Core, We Are All the Same

The Peace Corps was always on my radar, but it wasn’t until after I took Humanities II in Nicaragua as a junior…

Bethany at the rice fields.
Peace Corps Voices: Bethany Stewart ’03, Becoming Part of the Family in The Gambia

One perspective I gained is to know that it's ok when things don't work out as you planned. You simply use that…

Danielle Ellingston '97 in a village in Ghana
Peace Corps Voices: Danielle Ellingston '97, Lessons from Ghana

I learned so much that it's hard to say what the one most valuable lesson was.

Jessica Kroenert '15 in Senegal with her village.
Peace Corps Voices: Planting Seeds for Change in Senegal

When I introduce myself in Senegal, I tell people my name is Mata Dia, the name my host family gave me when I began…

Cover for "Marriage, Divorce and Distress in Northeast Brazil: Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect and Kinship"
Geneseo Professor Studies Afro-Brazilian Marriage

Assistant Professor of Anthropology Melanie Medeiros is getting ready to celebrate the release of her book, Marriage…

Patricia Gualinga
Amazon Leader Discusses Land Preservation Fight

When their land in the Ecuadorian Amazon was opened for oil drilling, the First People of Sarayaku fought back - and…

Ambassador Dennis Ross
Ambassador Dennis Ross to Deliver Roemer Lecture on the Middle East

Ambassador Dennis Ross will deliver the Kenneth Roemer Lecture on World Affairs at SUNY Geneseo. He will address "…

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Printing Initiative Reduces Waste

As part of CIT’s ongoing printing improvement Initiative, Computing and Information Technology’s gPrint system is…

the eGarden
Student Examines Solar Power in College's eGarden

Every year in early March, while experts in the field of sustainable energy begin to flock to Austria for the annual…

Cladia Plantin
Geneseo Among Peace Corps’ 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Colleges & Universities

SUNY Geneseo continues to be among the Peace Corps’ top volunteer-producing colleges in the country.

Greg Roloff' '12 working at his lab at NIH
Young Alumnus Is On The Cutting Edge of Fighting Cancer

At the National Institutes of Health, Greg Roloff ’12 analyzes blood samples of patients with leukemia that persists…