February is National Eating Disorder Awareness (NEDA) month, and is more largely recognized at the end of the month with NEDA Week. This year, NEDA Week will take place from Feb. 20-26. 

On Thursday Feb. 2 at 6 p.m., Geneseo’s Advisory Committee on Campus Safety led its annual campus safety walk—an event that, each year, aims to address safety and accessibility issues on Geneseo’s campus. The review is run in late fall or early winter during the evening in order to easily identify lighting issues. Spanning across half of the campus each year, this year’s review focused on North Village, Central Village, and parts of the academic quad.

On Nov. 17, SUNY Geneseo reported that the campus received recognition for student voting from the All In Campus Democracy Challenge. This organization, which seeks to promote student participation in elections, included Geneseo among campuses nationwide in their 2022 list for Most Engaged Campuses. 

On Saturday, Dec. 3, Geneseo Peace Action participated in the Genesee Valley Citizens for Peace (GVCP) rally for buying peaceful toys. The intentions of the event were publicized by GVCP in a flyer promoting the event:

SUNY Geneseo has announced the decision to partner with several New York state colleges to offer paid internships for history majors over the summer. The internships will provide a variety of opportunities for Geneseo students through working with local historians for projects pertaining to town histories.

As the Geneseo campus community prepares for finals week, students from Professor Lytton Smith’s Sustainability and Literature: Black Poetics course are working to spearhead Geneseo’s first campus-wide book exchange. The exchange is on track to take place in the MacVittie College Union from Dec. 9 to Dec. 19. 

In Nov. of this year, SUNY Geneseo Assistant Professor of Chemistry Michael Webb published an article titled “A Ru(II)-arene-ferrocene complex with promising antibacterial activity” in the scientific journal Dalton Transactions. The article examines the antibacterial properties of organic ruthenium complexes and explores the possible medical applications that could result from the discovery. 

On Saturday Dec. 10 the Geneseo Cookie Stroll will take place on Main Street. The event will be a culmination of winter festivities, including music, shopping specials, and of course, cookies.  

In Oct. 2022, Distinguished Teaching Professor of English Emeritus Eugene Stelzig published True Lies and Short Takes: Assorted Life Writing Essays, a series of 24 autobiographical essays focusing on Stelzig’s life and many experiences. The assortment is divided into three parts: “Austrian Roots,” which addresses Stelzig’s childhood, “Adult Branchings,” surrounding his transition to America and developing identity, and “Falling Leaves,” a reflection on aging. Geneseo’s Department of English News described the essays as “a kaleidoscopic collection of…attempts at different modes of self-reflexivity.”

This week has been Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, and the Food Security Advocates have been holding events this week to address food insecurity on campus and in the community. This week, they have held a farm-to-table potluck dinner on Nov. 12, a food forest workshop on Nov. 15, and a Student Association (SA) food drive in which all SA-funded organizations are encouraged to donate non-perishable food. 

On Nov. 5, the Geneseo Pride Alliance hosted their annual Second-Chance Prom, an event where students can have the traditional prom experience and fully express their queerness in a safe and supportive environment. Many queer individuals did not have a safe space in high school when they and their friends were going to prom, and the second-chance prom provides them a chance to make those same memories without worrying about being judged for their expression. 

The Geneseo Insomnia Film Festival (GIFF) is returning for its ninth installation after a COVID-19-induced respite. The festival, which kickstarted in 2011, has been a staple campus event ever since its first run; its loyal participants, referred to as “Insomniacs,” are surely eager for its return.

A new Living Learning Community (LLC) has been established in Genesee, Putnam, and Suffolk Residence Halls. The Lavender House LLC is a community for LGBTQ+ students interested in living with other students who share their identities and experiences. While there has previously been dedicated space in Putnam Hall for gender neutral and LGBTQ+ students, a ceremony was held on Nov. 1 to officially name the space Lavender House and establish LLCs in Genesee and Suffolk Halls. 

In Oct. of this year, the SUNY Geneseo School of Business (SOB) dedicated a conference room in South Hall to Geneseo alumnus Robert E. Murray of the class of 1983. The room was dedicated during a special ceremony preceding the President’s Gala, with speakers School of Business (SOB) Dean Mary Ellen Zuckerman and Geneseo President Denise Battles speaking to Murray’s generosity and involvement in the SOB. 

The SUNY Geneseo community is continuing their dedication to sustainability awareness with the 2022-23 “Tempestry” project. The goal of the project is to create a blanket or tapestry with colors determined by the temperature of each day of the year. Once completed, the tapestry can be compared to other “tempestries” and will serve as a physical reminder of the continued effects of global warming and climate change. 

The list of ten students selected as this year’s SUNY Geneseo Presidential Scholars was recently released and posted on the Geneseo website. Presidential Scholars are graduating students who have demonstrated academic excellence and exemplify Geneseo’s institutional values of learning, creativity, belonging, civic engagement, and sustainability.

On Oct. 25, SUNY Geneseo was named one of The Princeton Review’s 2023 Green Colleges. The Princeton Review is a nationally recognized authority on college rankings, and Geneseo has recently also received favorable ratings on education, community, and belonging. 

Steve Holden, a Syracuse University graduate and United States Army veteran, is running for Congress in District 24. The district includes several counties including Livingston, Ontario, Wayne, Seneca, Yates, Wyoming, and the town of Geneseo.

According to his website, Holden is concerned with a variety of hot-button issues, including women’s rights and the right to an abortion, immigration, gun reform, and the environment, among other issues.