Melinda Treadwell has been named the fourteenth president of the State University of New York at Geneseo. She is slated to assume her presidency on October 27.
According to the U.S. Department of Education, SUNY Geneseo enrolls nearly 3,900 undergraduate students, 65 percent of whom are women. The university also has a small graduate population of roughly 60 students.
Dr. Treadwell has been serving as president of Keene State College in New Hampshire. She has been with the college since 2000, when she joined the faculty in the department of safety and occupational health applied sciences. Over the past 25 years, she has served in progressive leadership positions, including dean of professional and graduate studies and interim provost and vice president for academic affairs.
Before her career in academia, Dr. Treadwell was a toxicologist in the private sector. She served as a public health policy advisor, helping to shape environmental health standards relating to air quality, diesel exhaust, and particulate matter.
“I am honored to be appointed as the next president of SUNY Geneseo and to join a campus community so deeply rooted in academic excellence, public purpose, and a clear sense of mission,” said Dr. Treadwell. “Geneseo’s identity as New York’s public honors college is compelling and critically important to the future of the region and state.”
A first-generation college student, Dr. Treadwell received her bachelor’s degree in industrial safety with a minor in chemistry from Keene State College. She earned her Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology from Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover, New Hampshire.