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Crane School of Music Professor Dr. Julianne Kirk Doyle, director of Crane Youth Music, reported a robust turnout for this year’s virtual music camp experience.

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

Miles DeCastro, an instrumental repair technician and instructor at SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music, opens and inspects student musical instruments that the School has been loaned, thanks to new partnerships with Yamaha and Eastman Winds.

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 Professor Dr. Rick Henry is seen in 2019 with a copy of “Letters,” released that year. Henry returns to the fictional rural upstate New York region for his latest novella, “Colleen’s Count,” which is now available for preorder from Finishing Line Press.

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 President Kristin G. Esterberg presents Crane School of Music Dean Michael Sitton with balloons as she surprises him with the 2020 Roger B. Linden Distinguished Service Award outside Raymond Hall.

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

“Old Tavern Site,” a black and white photograph by Annika McIntosh, is on display at the online St. Lawrence County Annual High School Exhibition 2020 at The Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam. Annika is a student at Parishville-Hopkinton Central School, where she studies under Ray Whalen.

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 Assistant Professor of Geology Dr. Page Quinton collaborated with the North Country Children’s Museum recently to produce fun and educational STEM videos.

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

Student Government Association President Kalis Nunes ’20 processes out of the Academic Quad after SUNY Potsdam's virtual Commencement ceremony, followed by Provost Bette Bergeron and President Kristin Esterberg.

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

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Founded in 1816, The State University of New York at Potsdam is one of America’s first 50 colleges -- and the oldest institution within SUNY. Now in its third century, SUNY Potsdam is distinguished by a legacy of pioneering programs and educational excellence. The College currently enrolls approximately 3,600 undergraduate and graduate students. Home to the world-renowned Crane School of Music, SUNY Potsdam is known for its challenging liberal arts and sciences core, distinction in teacher training and culture of creativity. To learn more, visit www.potsdam.edu.