SUNY Potsdam

The Sociology Achievement Award recognizes the academic achievements of graduating seniors who entered SUNY Potsdam as transfer students and are now graduating with the highest grade point average in the sociology major.

The Canfield Scholarship is awarded each spring to an outstanding junior sociology major. The selection is based on achievement, demonstrated ability and potential for further professional growth.

Departmental Scholars are senior sociology majors with the highest grade point averages.

Alpha Phi Sigma recognizes the academic excellence of undergraduate and graduate students of criminal justice, as well as Juris Doctor students. The goals of Alpha Phi Sigma are to honor and promote academic excellence, community service, educational leadership and unity.

The Distinguished Service in Environmental Studies Award is given to recognize a major or minor who exhibits excellent performance, while exemplifying the spirit of the program.

Founded in 1920 at the University of Southern California, Alpha Kappa Delta seeks to acknowledge and promote excellence in the scholarship in the study of social problems, sociology, and intellectual activities that lead to the improvement in the human condition.

The Environmental Studies Award is presented to one or more graduating environmental studies students who show the most promise for further study or application of environmental knowledge.

This scholarship is awarded annually to support a declared, full-time, undergraduate environmental studies major. The student recipient must be a junior or senior, with preference for academic promise and performance. The scholarship may be renewable for one additional year, if the student remains a full-time environmental studies major and in good academic standing.

Three outstanding SUNY Potsdam students were recently among those honored with the 2021 Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence.

SUNY Potsdam's Department of Business Administration recently hosted its Business Plan and Product Prototype Competition, which challenges students to develop an entrepreneurial business plan fulfilling the need of a specific group of consumers. In the Fall 2020 semester, a team of four dedicated students took home the trophy.

Four SUNY Potsdam students recently completed the Engage in Applied Learning component of the College's Summit Leadership Program.

Six SUNY Potsdam students recently completed the Explore Leadership Development component of the College's Summit Leadership Program.

A SUNY Potsdam student recently completed the Social Justice Badge through the College's Summit Leadership Program.

This award was created by the Department of Politics to honor former Chair and Faculty member, Dr. David E. Brown, who co-created, along with Dr. Richard Del Guidice, Potsdam's Political Science program and helped to establish the Department of Political Science in 1971. It is presented to a student who has submitted an outstanding paper for Senior Seminar.

This scholarship is awarded each year to a SUNY Potsdam sophomore or junior political science major who maintains a GPA at the Dean's List level or higher.

One SUNY Potsdam student recently completed the Career Management: Exploration and Development specialty badge through the College's Summit Leadership Program.

SUNY Potsdam students recently completed the Women, Gender and Leadership specialty badge through the College's Summit Leadership Program.

The Noreen M. Canfield Scholarship is awarded each spring to an outstanding junior or first-semester senior politics major at SUNY Potsdam. The selection of the Canfield Scholar is based on achievement, demonstrated ability and potential for further professional growth.

SUNY Potsdam student Michael Carlisle has been honored for his outstanding undergraduate work by being recognized with an academic award and a scholarship.

Allen J. Danks was a 1978 graduate of SUNY Potsdam with a major in Political Science. He was awarded a Lehman Scholarship and went on to do his graduate work at Columbia University. He is remembered as a man of great intellect who believed in making a positive and heartfelt contribution to the world around him and who gave of himself for the benefit of others. At his death in 1991 at the age of 35, his classmates at Potsdam endowed this award in his honor to help an undergraduate at the College who is active in social, community and/or political issues.

This award goes to a freshman or sophomore student who has demonstrated outstanding performance in an American history survey course during the preceding calendar year. It was established in honor of Dr. Robert L. Briggs, a valued member of the history faculty from 1961 to his retirement in 1985.

This scholarship is awarded to a student, preferably from St. Lawrence County, who is majoring in history and who can be expected to achieve an average of 3.25 in history courses and 3.0 GPA overall. Dr. Robert L. Briggs was a valued member of the history faculty from 1961 to his retirement in 1985.

This scholarship is awarded to the outstanding junior history major based on the student's overall GPA, their GPA in history, and the department's knowledge of the student. The scholarship was established by the wife of the former priest of Potsdam's Trinity Episcopal Church and mayor of Potsdam.

This award is for an outstanding performance by a student in public history. The award commemorates Dr. M. J. Heisey, a longtime member and former Chair of the Department of History, who dedicated her career to researching and teaching public history and oral history. She retired in 2019.

Nine SUNY Potsdam students were recently inducted into Phi Alpha Theta, the national historical honor society.

Three SUNY Potsdam students were inducted into Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society, this semester.

The SUNY Potsdam Department of History recently selected five outstanding students as the 2021 Departmental Scholars.

Windila Balbone has been recognized with three academic awards in honor of her outstanding achievements at SUNY Potsdam, including the International Studies Departmental Scholar Award, the International Studies Award, and the Dr. Philip Neisser Departmental Service Award.

This is an award to recognize an outstanding seminar paper written in HIST 480, and it commemorates the former chair of the Social Studies Department, who served from 1941 to 1964.

The Richard Del Guidice Scholarship is an award created by alumni and friends of the Politics Department on the occasion of Professor Del Guidice's retirement in 2002. The endowment provides an annual scholarship to a junior pre-law student to assist in paying the costs associated with taking the Law School Admission Test and applying to various law schools.