On the morning of Sept. 15, 2025, campus police at Delta State University in Cleveland, Mississippi opened an investigation into a dead body they found “hanging from a tree near the university’s pickleball courts,” as detailed by Delta State University campus police Chief, Michael Peeler, and the Cleveland Police Department.

Last week, students of SUNY Geneseo received two emails ‘addressing’ a vague situation that left many feeling uneasy.

SUNY Geneseo recently joined  the University at Albany’s Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy in the creation of a 4+1 program for a Master’s of Public Administration (MPA) graduate degree.

At a little before 3:00 p.m. on Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2025, the SUNY Board of Trustees aired a live, short-notice broadcast of their weekly meeting where they revealed the name of the new president of SUNY Geneseo and allowed her to the floor to talk.

On Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025 the Evergreen High School, located in Colorado, faced devastating tragedy earlier this week when an active shooter opened fire in the building, leaving three wounded, including the shooter himself. Desmond Holly has been identified as the 16-year-old shooter behind the attack.

In July 2025, at the archaeological site of Orozmani in the Kvemo Kartli region of the country of Georgia, an international team of archaeologists discovered a 1.8 million-year-old jawbone of what is believed to be the human ancestor Homo erectus, according to the Georgian National Agency for Cultural Heritage Preservation.

In the fall of 2019, Associate Professor of Biology, Mackenzie Gerringer with a small group of SUNY Geneseo students (now alumni), including “Lydia Fregosi ’21, Emily McMahon ’23, Jessica Palmeri ’21, Samantha Shepard ’23, Sarah Suplicz ’23, and Brett Woodworth ’22,” took on the task of classifying and describing various species of fish, which had peculiar features that did not line up with known samples of other deep sea fish.

Since February 2021, the Mars rover, Perseverance, has been exploring an area of Mars called the Jezero Crater which is most likely home to an old Martian lake. On Sept. 10,2025 scientists published findings regarding rock samples obtained in 2024 by the rover.

New York’s Public Honors College, SUNY Geneseo, was recently named as a ‘Best College’ in the Princeton Review’s 2026 edition of The Best 391 Colleges.

SUNY Geneseo’s School of Business has introduced a new 100% online master’s program in Accounting. It is currently open to part-time students in the Fall 2025 semester and will be available to part-time and full-time students in the Fall 2026 semester. Admission into the program will be available at the start of both the Fall and Spring semesters.

September is Chiari Malformation Awareness Month. Chiari is a lesser-known condition in which the brain extends downwards into the spinal canal due to a lack of space in the skull.

On Aug. 12, 2025, SUNY Geneseo re-approved its Assembly Policy, following a yearly review and update made to the policy. Amidst this yearly review, tensions rise on both the national and international levels due to ongoing pressures/conflicts, leading to confusion, fear, and the possibility of gross misinterpretations of the policy and its reasons for implementation. 

The Department of Global Languages and Cultures  at SUNY Geneseo has recently redesigned their program and its offerings. Dr. Beverly Evans, Department Chair & Distinguished Teaching Professor of French, offered some valuable insight into these changes.

On Sunday, Apr. 27, 2025, Sisters Making a Change (SMAC) hosted their annual Out of the Darkness Walk on campus in partnership with the Livingston County Suicide Prevention Task Force, a fundraiser dedicated to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).

President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order (EO) named “Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy” earlier this week. The recent signing of this order is raising concerns for women's financial independence, among other civil rights issues.

Recent bioarchaeological and osteological analysis of a skeleton excavated from a Roman cemetery outside the city of York, United Kingdom, has revealed physical evidence of a person being assaulted by a large cat in the context of Roman gladiatorial combat, a first-of-its-kind discovery in the Roman archaeological record.

The month of May has been recognized as Mental Health Awareness Month since 1949. This month-long acknowledgment of mental health aims to “increase awareness of mental illness and wellness,” according to Psychiatry Advisor.

As April showers begin to let up, it’s the perfect time to plant trees and appreciate the environment. Arbor Day occurred this past Friday, Apr. 25, with countries worldwide celebrating the secular holiday. Here in Geneseo, the village hosted an open volunteer event organized by the Geneseo Garden Club, where anyone could come and plant trees, fall bulbs, and wildflowers.

Lesbian Visibility Week is from Apr. 21 to Apr. 27, celebrating the power of sisterhood by uplifting incredible LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people from every generation, in every field, and every country around the world; “one community, so many brilliant individuals,” according to lesbianvisibilityweek.com.

On Apr. 16, researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences— Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (OeAW) —and the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced that they had discovered a series of medieval inscriptions and drawings at the site believed to have been the location of the Last Supper on Mount Zion in Jerusalem, Israel.