Geneseo was ranked first for out-of-state students and ninth for in-state students in Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s 2013 list of best values among the nation’s public four-year colleges. 

This year’s H3N2 strain of virus, which causes influenza, had severe impacts in New York state, though the Geneseo campus went comparatively unscathed.

Senior Matthew Bower recently received the State University of New York Emerging Leader Award for Entrepreneurial Century, an honor bestowed upon students who have demonstrated significant leadership on their campus and in their community.

Geneseo kicked off its 13th-annual Cultural Harmony Week, which will focus on the theme “Create. Play. Educate: That’s how we learn!” The week began on Wednesday Oct. 24 with a visit from StoryCorps, a nonprofit organization that visited the campus to host the event “Everyone has a Story to Tell.”

The Geneseo community recently celebrated the reopening of the Archives and Special Collections area in Milne Library, which contains publications written by staff and alumni as well as rare historical collections.

Paul Morrell was recently named director of Geneseo’s Small Business Development Center. Administered by the SUNY system, the SBDC provides confidential expert counseling services to current and potential small-business owners.