SUNY Potsdam

Click on the project titles below to learn about past projects of graduated Presidential Scholars:

Anthropology and Archaeology

• A Comparative Study of First Maxillary Molars in Modern Humans by Andrea Wendel

• A Geo-archaeological Study of Ballasts from the 16th-Century Emanuel Point No. 2 Shipwreck, Pensacola Bay, Florida by Amanda Wohlberg

• A Paleodemograhpic Study of Berlin Cemetery, Berlin NJ by Jesse Millek

• A Polynesian Mormon Archeological site in Iosepa, Utah Claire McMahon
• Applicability of Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for Documenting and Visualizing Historic Mormon Nauvoo, Illinois by Chelsea Richard
• Archaeological Experiment: Re-Creating a Nasca Textile (2007) Rebecca Nelson

• Attitudinal linguistic comparison of Iroquoian languages (2007) Adam Jacobs
• Cultural Concerns: Karen Refugees and the Biomedical System by Alyssa Petroski
• From Wigwam to Cabin: The Use of Domestic Spaces in Pre- and Post-Contact Native Communities by Jacob Orcutt
• Preserving the Oral Histories of Traditional Artists in New York (2007) Rebecca Gardner
  
• Shaking the Foundations of the Minoan Matriarchy (2004) Amy Heimroth
• The Origins of Roman City Planning by Robert Lyon
• The Practical Application of Forensic Anthropology for Human Rights (2005) Mary Bailey
• Quantifying Time Expenditure Associated with Neanderthal Burials and its Implications by Jonathan Reeves

 
Art and Art History

• Analysis of Fear: Psychological Aspects and Depictions Throughout the History of Art by Carlie Miller
• An Intense Exaggeration of the Emotional Aspects of Commonly used Imagery in Art History: The Annunciation Scene, Adam & Eve, and The Virgin & Child by Elizabeth LaBarge

• En Plein Air Landscape Painting by Robert Fountain

• Exploring Cerdec-Degussa Inclusion Pigments and their effect in various clay bodies Sara Roik (2008)
• Felt Making: The Aesthetic of Process by Sebastian J. Stoddart
• Medieval Stained-glass Windows by Scott Miller

• The Making of Masks (2007) Emily Glass

• The Perfect Women: The Idealization of Women in Italian Art (2009) Krystal Stowe   
• Vermeer’s Colors: Their Composition and Manufacture by Jessica Bellingham

Creative Writing, Modern Languages and Psychology

• Alexander: An Examination of Alexander the Great through Historical Fiction by Alexandra F. Morris
  

• La Boulangerie: A Look Into the Importance of Bread to French Culture by Elora Garland

Dance and Drama

• A Documentary Film on the Auction Industry (2009) Sarah Parker    
  
• Nihon-buyo choreography (2005) Tomoko Takedani
• Perspectives on Poverty: A Socio-drama on Poverty in the North Country (2008) Donna Moschek
• Sapphic Century Cycle - Erin Nicole Harrington

Education

• Community and Public Education: The application of instructional strategies on different learning environments (2004) Troy Soukey

• Meeting the Standards:  Integrating the Arts in French Education (2004) Molly Pioch
• Reading Comprehension Instruction (2006) Meghan Tiernan
• Science Based Children's Literature by Olivia Tyler

English and Communications, Languages

• Assembling an anthology of student poetry: Creative writing workshop (2004) Rebecca Spiridilozzi
  
• The Red Scarf:  a play  (2007) Miles Ledoux
• Northbound: Fiction Tied to Place (2004) Melissa Manchester
• The History of Virginity (2006) Kathryn Boswell
• The observation and investigation of the encoding processes of bilingual speakers of English and Japanese (2004) Nogawa Mao 

Music

• Advanced Piano Music for the Small Hand by Shalvi D’Arcangelo

• Beginning Instrumental Music Curriculum for Students with Autism (2009) Cheryl Payne  
• Beginning piano method book for children with autism and AD/HD by Yingyu He

• Developing a Beginning Band Program Involving the Orff Method (2006) Jodie Schoppmann
• Fiddle Music in the Public Schools by Amanda Hayden
• Forming the Phrase: The Development of Phrase Structure in J. C. Bach's Symphonies (2003) Romeo Whou
• Greek art Songs transcribed into IPA by Lydia Zervanos
• Injury-free playing in the Public School String Program (2007) Nicole Peragine
• Irish Heritage Music for the Classroom (2004) Kristin Schirmuhly
• Liszt Transcriptions for Wind and Orchestral Ensembles (2009) Danielle Mitton
• Multi-sensory Musical Composition in Contemporary Classical Performance: The Tactile Music Project (2004) Ryan Mix
• Music Curriculum for Hearing Impaired Preschoolers (2007) Alyssa Kyle
• Original Compositions for Equestrian Dressage by Natasha Jaffe
• Richard Strauss and Nazism (2005) Jon Kusche
• S'Brent: Music in the Holocaust (2003) Harold Goldstein
• Social and Political Factors in the Changing Female Silhouette (2006) Ashley Slater
• Temperament, Harmonics, and Intonation (2005) Tim Via
• The German Language and Musicology (2002) by Sherri Winks
• The 'New Music for Guitar' Festival (2005) Jon Russo
• The Role of the Violin in the Flamenco & Mariachi Traditions (2007) Jessie Vallejo

Sciences, Mathematics and Computing

• A comparison of the Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcus  on the Hands of College Age Students and Daycare Students by Elizabeth Oaks

• A mineralogical and geochemical investigation of a granitic pegmatite near DeKalb, New York by Brian Butts
• BHT: A Potential New Drug To Treat Iron Overload Diseases by Justin R. McNally
• Blanding's Turtles Overwintering Habitat Selection by Brayton Hill
• Diet of three abundant species of copepods from Clear Pond, Parishville, NY (2004) Julie Trevett
• Fire Tower Mapping in the Adirondack Park by Dan Rockefeller
• Identification of Bismuth and Tellurium Bearing Minerals within a Carlin-Type Gold Deposit: Nevada by Dan Arcadi
• Sedimentology of the Pennsylvanian Ragged Reef Formation in Nova Scotia by Emily Stephan
• Synthesizing a Derivative of the Anti-Cancer Drug DW2282 (2008) Hugh Bigg
• The Effectiveness and Resistance of Common Bactericidal Cleaning Products (2009) Katherine Scott  
• The interaction of different protein forms and their receptors by Banu Kandemir
• The Owls Head Mine in Malone, NY by Matthew Dunlop
• The Side Products of The Friedle-Craft Reaction - Matthew Hudson
• Ubiquitous Computing (2005) Bishal Thapa

• Understanding the role Ferritin plays in maintaining Iron Balance by Adeola Awomolo

Sociology and Psychology

• A Survey of SUNY Potsdam's International Students (2005) Bryan Poole-Di Salvo
• Connecting communities on the issue of domestic violence/rape (2007) Ranah Mattot
• Drama Therapy revealed (2007) Sherri Jesse
  
• Procrastination & Motivation: A Psychological Perspective (2002) Regan DelPriori
• Survey research of US Health insurance options and education (2005) Kristy Primeau

• The Relationship Between Personality Traits and Partner Attraction by Marcella Shrout

• Transitions from a salad bowl to a melting pot: Interviews on heritages and cultures in America (2004) Ikuko Matsuda