On Thursday night, Geneseo and Avon fire departments responded to a fire in the fourth floor kitchen of Putnam residence hall. No one was injured.
In an attempt to alleviate some of the problems students have when putting together their schedules, Dean of the College Polly Radosh has proposed the implementation of block scheduling.
Beginning next semester, Geneseo, incited by student persistence for public availability of textbook information, will release the long-awaited book list in the form of a comprehensive and centralized Web site.
The Student Senate has filled all 17 positions for the first time in years and is now ready to move toward improving its image and role on campus. Student senators are part of the larger College Senate, an advisory body on campus made up of members of the administration, faculty, staff and student body.
First Lt. Mohsin A. Naqvi, a 2005 Geneseo graduate, was among four killed on Sept. 17 when an improvised explosive device struck his vehicle in Gerdia Seria, Afghanistan. According to an Associated Press article, Naqvi, born in Pakistan, moved to America at age 8 with his family.
Geneseo alumnus Jody Swilky will return to present his documentary, "A Little Salsa on the Prairie: The Changing Character in Perry, Iowa," a film on cultural diversification and its effects on a metropolitan community in the Midwest. The film will be shown at 7 p.
History professor William Cook recently earned a grant from the National Endowment of the Humanities that will fund a seminar he will teach in Siena, Italy in the summer of 2009. Cook, currently on leave to teach at Wabash College in Indiana, was awarded $140,414 for the seminar, which will be attended by 15 teachers from both public and private schools.
Anthropology department chair Rose-Marie Chierici was awarded the Ernest A. Lynton Citation for Distinguished Engaged Scholarship from the New England Resource Center for Higher Education for her extensive work in Borgne, Haiti. Chierici was one of only two recipients in the U.
