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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
SUNY Potsdam Students Receive Chancellor's Fellowship Awards
Hard work and a spirit of service are themes in common for two SUNY Potsdam students, who will be pursuing graduate school with the help of a new fellowship program launched earlier this year. Tiffanny Montgomery '20 and Karla Ruiz '20 have been sel...
May 29, 2020, 11:00am EDT
SUNY Potsdam & Clarkson University Delay Reunion Weekend 2020
In a message relayed to alumni earlier this month, due to the changing regulatory environment with the COVID-19 crisis, Clarkson University and SUNY Potsdam have decided to delay this year's Reunion Weekend to July 8 to 11, 2021. Reunion Weekend wou...
May 28, 2020, 4:00pm EDT
SUNY Potsdam Celebrates Class of 2020 with Virtual Ceremony to Mark 200th Commencement
SUNY Potsdam recognized the achievements of nearly 900 graduates in the College's 200th Commencement on Saturday, May 23. The virtual ceremony and accompanying watch party was filled with joyful comments and tributes, as graduates, families, students, ...
May 23, 2020, 11:49am EDT