David Meisel, a former professor in SUNY Geneseo’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, sadly passed away this past August. In honor of his contributions to space research and his commitment in spreading his passion for astronomy, an asteroid has been named after him: Asteroid (5965) Meisel; his colleagues agree the asteroid was deservingly named after him. 

On Oct. 1, 2025 at 12:01am, the U.S. federal government shut down. Congressmen and women, both Republicans and Democrats, failed to agree on a new government spending bill for Fiscal Year 2026.

In news that shocked the world, Dr. Jane Goodall passed away from natural causes at 91 years old while in California for her speaking tour across the U.S.A. Goodall was a world renowned primatologist, anthropologist, and conservationist.

Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) may be making its debut in our northern horizon night skies for a short period of time. This is a rare and spectacular opportunity to see a comet with the naked eye, a sight which many astronomers wait decades to experience.

US News has declared SUNY Geneseo as the Best Undergraduate Teaching University in the Regional North category. The student to faculty ratio recorded for SUNY Geneseo is 16:1, a format that benefits students who value stronger connections with their professors and fellow classmates.

The recent publication of an archaeometallurgical study (which examines the production of ancient metal) on the bronzetti figurines of the Bronze Age Nuragic culture of Sardinia has revealed information on the origins of the figurines themselves, and on the island’s Bronze Age inhabitants.

In an announcement on Monday, Sept. 22, President Trump issued the statement “Don’t take Tylenol” several times, due to the suggestion that acetaminophen, the primary and active ingredient in Tylenol medications, can cause autism spectrum disorder.

The United States Constitution’s first amendment reads that “congress shall make no law… abridging the freedom of speech.” So when late night show host Jimmy Kimmel had his show pulled off the air indefinitely for a joke he made about the assassination of late political influencer, Charlie Kirk, Americans, both Republicans and Democrats alike were outraged.

In light of this announcement, The Lamron has reached out to the staff at Keene State College’s (KSC) newspaper, The Equinox, to gauge from students and long-time affiliates at Treadwell’s current institution to understand what Dr. Treadwell’s involvement/action could look like in play at Geneseo.

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.