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Geneseo unveils new Web presence Before he graduates this spring, Ray FeDora wants everyone to know why he loves Geneseo. “Geneseo has given me the opportunity to get involved, meet great people and make more of myself,” says FeDora. “I couldn’t imagine myself anywhere else.” An assistant residence director, FeDora loves getting together with friends in the College Union, living and working in the residence halls and giving campus tours to prospective students. FeDora’s on-campus pursuits are featured in a video he created for “MyLife@Geneseo,” a series highlighting students’ lives and interests at Geneseo that appears on the college’s new Web site. The series is part of the fresh look and feel on the recently redesigned Geneseo.edu, with the goal of better reflecting the college’s academic rigor and research, community and rich campus life. “We wanted our site to reflect
The new Geneseo.edu
the college’s vitality across a broad spectrum — its academics, its organizations, its people and its events, both for people who know Geneseo well and those who haven’t discovered the college yet,” said Anthony T. Hoppa, assistant vice president of college communications. The Web site redesign was
Geneseo Alumni Community. The largest alumni undertaking to date, the site will be an online meeting place for alumni to reconnect with classmates, post photos and learn about upcoming events. “We’re thrilled to provide our alumni with such a rich resource,” says Rose G. Anderson, assistant vice president for alumni relations. “Our online community will enable alumni to stay active and engaged both with Geneseo and with each other.” Currently in the second phase of the Web site project, Geneseo’s college information technology (CIT) and college communications teams are conmore than a year in the making. verting more than 30,000 pages Working with a firm specializing from the old site to the new one. When complete, the colin higher-education sites, the lege will enter the final phase — college solicited input from continual evaluation and focus groups and hosted town improvement of Geneseo.edu hall-style meetings with faculty to keep features, photos and and staff to develop a design information relevant and that met the needs of the compelling. Geneseo community. — Laura R. Kenyon Now in development is the
Newest residence hall is muse worthy
Songwriter Kate Royal ’13 is inspired by her fellow artists and students in Writers House, the college’s second special-interest residence hall.
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During her college experience, Kate Royal ’13 says she wants to be surrounded by people with similar interests, “who I can be inspired by and collaborate with.” She’s found that creativity and camaraderie at Seneca Hall, Geneseo’s newest residence hall and second special-interest house. More than 80 writers of all stripes, from songwriters to researchers to poets, live together, share talent at weekly openmike nights, plan special events and have opportunities to learn from leaders in the field. English Professor Tom Greenfield and other faculty mentor students and offer workshops. Royal has explored stream of consciousness writing and deep breathing and light meditation during such sessions. Visiting writers have stayed in Seneca Hall apartments, including Marjorie Chan, a playwright and librettist who writes operas, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Schultz.