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SUNY Potsdam Alumni Present 2020 Minerva Award to Composer John R. Angier '88
The SUNY Potsdam Alumni Association recently presented the 2020 Minerva Award to John R. Angier '88 of New York City, during the College's Virtual Reunion Week. The Minerva Award is presented annually to graduates who have demonstrated outstanding p...
Jul 22, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Education Alumni Honor Jan Harting McChesney '74 with 2020 St. Lawrence Academy Medal
The SUNY Potsdam School of Education Alumni Association recently honored Dr. Jan Harting McChesney '74 of Greenport, N.Y., with the 2020 St. Lawrence Academy Medal, during the College's Virtual Reunion Week. The St. Lawrence Academy Medal is present...
Jul 22, 2020, 1:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Announces Restart Plans for the Fall
SUNY Potsdam has developed a Restart Plan for the Fall 2020 semester in line with all New York Forward higher education regulations and SUNY requirements, and in consultation with public health officials and community leaders. The North Country has one...
Jul 3, 2020, 4:43pm EDT
Crane Youth Music Camp Offers Virtual Immersion in a World of Music
The much-anticipated Crane Youth Music summer camp went virtual this week, drawing a wide range of geographically dispersed students into a single weeklong online experience. The overnight summer camp programs offered by SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of ...
Jul 1, 2020, 4:00pm EDT
New Instruments Strike a Bright Note at The Crane School of Music
SUNY Potsdam's Crane School of Music has been named a recipient of a significant loan of 237 new instruments intended to bolster music education. The instruments, valued at $367,896, arrived at Crane over the past week, courtesy of the musical equipmen...
Jun 30, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Author Returns to Familiar Turf in Latest Novella
In Dr. Rick Henry's latest novella set in a fictional upstate New York town, the theme is deceptively simple: Colleen O'Shea sits in the park, assigned to count the vehicles driving through a rural town in 1933. Her count is interrupted by friends, sec...
Jun 29, 2020, 12:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Honors Dr. Michael Sitton with 2020 Roger B. Linden Distinguished Service Award
SUNY Potsdam has named Crane School of Music Dean Michael Sitton (Hon. '20) as the recipient of its 2020 Roger B. Linden Distinguished Service Award, the highest award bestowed by the College. President Kristin G. Esterberg surprised Sitton with the...
Jun 26, 2020, 12:32pm EDT
Local High School Student Art on Display in SUNY Potsdam Virtual Exhibit
Creative, thoughtful and full of color, an online exhibit of art by St. Lawrence County high school students is featured in a virtual exhibition presented by The Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam. Three dozen pieces showcase the talent of 18 students from fiv...
Jun 16, 2020, 1:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Professor Creates Fun Educational Videos in Collaboration with North Country Children's Museum
A partnership between a SUNY Potsdam faculty member and the North Country Children's Museum is helping enrich the young -- and youthful at heart -- just in time for summer. Since museums cannot begin to reopen until phase four of the New York Forwar...
Jun 5, 2020, 2:00pm EDT
Perceptions of a Pandemic: SUNY Potsdam Professor Launches New Public Health Study
What are your beliefs about the threat of COVID-19? And what steps are you taking -- or not -- to avoid the virus? These are just two of the questions that SUNY Potsdam researcher Dr. Kelly Bonnar hopes to answer in a new study looking at the way be...
Jun 3, 2020, 3:00pm EDT