Happy New Year!  Wishing you the very best in ’09!

There’s still time!!
Nominate someone for one of the Alumni Association Awards presented during Reunion Weekend in July.  The deadline is February 1.  Click here for award descriptions and the nomination form.

Incoming or current students can apply for an Alumni Association Scholarship in the amount of $1000.  Students must be the child or grandchild of a Potsdam alum.  The deadline for the 2009/2010 award is February 1, 2009.  Click here to download an application.

Dean of the Crane School of Music Search
The search committee is pleased to announce the candidacy of three applicants.  For further information or to view the schedule of open interview sessions, click here. Alumni and Emeriti are invited to attend the “campus open session” for each candidate.  Emeriti may also attend the “open session with faculty/staff.” 

If you would like to review the vitae and administrative philosophies, but do not have a campus computer account, you may request that the information be emailed to you (please provide a valid email).  You can also view copies at the Crane School of Music in Bishop C218.

Potsdam's Dr. Neisser's “United We Fall” encourages discussing political disagreements without resolution
In Dr. Phillip T. Neisser’s “Political Ideas” class this fall, students engaged in sometimes-heated discussions about controversial topics in an effort to demonstrate how disagreement is an essential part of making democracy work. Dr. Neisser, an associate professor of politics and chair of the Department of Politics, believes we too often take the center of the road politically instead of discussing where we differ and becoming stronger for it.  (Read more)

Potsdam ICT students make major connections at educational technology conference
Six students in SUNY Potsdam’s Department of Information and Communication Technology recently attended the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) Annual Convention where they made lasting contacts, some of which led to admission in Ph.D. programs.  (Read more)

SUNY-PAEG members celebrate 20 years of educating fellow students about HIV & AIDS
Which of these statements sound true and which sound like a myth? If I am HIV-infected, I must inform my roommate, employer, coworker or professors about it. If I am HIV-infected, I cannot use recreational facilities like swimming pools. If I am HIV-infected, I am at greater risk of contracting various infections from my peers than of spreading HIV. How good is our knowledge about HIV facts and myths?  (Read more)

SUNY Potsdam faculty member authors eighth book
Dr. Biman Das, professor of physics at SUNY Potsdam, recently authored his eighth book titled “Student Pocket Companion for Physics for Scientists & Engineers,” which was published by Addison-Wesley in September 2008.  (Read more)

SUNY Potsdam SGA adopts a local family for Christmas
SUNY Potsdam’s Student Government Association recently took time out from studying for finals to spearhead the effort to adopt a local family for Christmas and the result has been more than $500 raised to help a family of five from Hopkinton.  (Read more)

New Potsdam student group works to beat hunger and homelessness
SUNY Potsdam’s student organization Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness recently raised money for food pantries and collected warm winter clothing to help combat the issues of hunger and homeless in the region.  (Read more)

SUNY Potsdam’s Psychology Club raised money to purchase gifts
SUNY Potsdam’s Psychology Club recently raised $165 to purchase gifts for 12 children ranging in age from 2 months to 16 years old served by Cerebral Palsy of the North Country.  (Read more)

SUNY Potsdam's share the holiday magic collections 155 gifts
SUNY Potsdam’s Share the Holiday MAGIC (Memories and Gifts in the Community) was once again a huge success bringing in 155 gifts to support the Potsdam Holiday Fund.  (Read more)

SUNY Potsdam promotes science as possible majors at High School Science Lab Day
Billy Pierce (r), a home school student who participates in Brushton-Moria’s Science Club, examines the creatures in SUNY Potsdam’s collection during the College’s annual High School Science Lab Day with the help of Potsdam senior biology major Kevin McArdle of Malone.  (Read more)

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The Alumni Association is proud to announce the launch of an alumni program with Liberty Mutual. To learn more about alumni discounts on your auto, home or renters insurance, visit www.libertymutual.com/lm/potsdam or call 1-800-524-9400

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February 6
Bear Pride Night
Join us on campus at Maxcy Hall and enjoy an evening of Bears basketball, hockey, prizes, kids activities and more!

February 6
Romeo and Juliet by Dufflebag Theatre
CPS is proud to present shows at 10 am, 12 pm and 7 pm.  For more information go to:  www.cpspotsdam.org/

February 23
Albany Chapter Hosts a Politics Alumni Reception
This is your chance to catch up with former Politics professors, meet the new ones, and visit with SUNY Potsdam alumni!

Are you performing in a concert; giving a reading; leading a seminar or participating in anything else that you might want alumni in your area to know about?  Let us know!  Fill out the online submission form now.

Martin Banner ’73
Florida All-State Chorus performing Banner’s edition of Carl Czerney’s “Te Deum in D”
January

Texas All-State Women’s choir performing Banner’s edition of Johann Michael Hayden’s “Dixit”
February

Michael Benedict ’79
Jazz Vibes
January 16 and 17
Café Capriccio, Albany NY

Dale Burnett ’63
Book published-Hopkinton: The Second Hundred Years
June

Joshua Dallaire ’05
FIRST Robotics Competition
February 26-28
Verizon Wireless Arena, Manchester, NH

Carolyn Bierly DeWitt ’58
Mesilla Valley Concert Band
January 18
New Mexico State University Recital Hall, Las Cruces, NM

C. Douglas Dickson ’65
4^th Global Forum on Humanitaian Medicine in Pediatric Cardiopathy
December-June
Santo Domingo, DR

Marcia Smith Hill ’71
Member of Bainbridge Chorale

David Pittman-Jennings
Lead vocal role: Dallapiccola’s IL PRIGIONIERO

February 20, 8:00 pm
Avery Fisher Hall in Lincoln Center, NYC

Mary Ann Luciano ’72
NYS Teacher Centers’ Leadership Academy Coordinator and Presentations
January 20-22
Rensselaerville Conference Center

Julie Weston Nesich ’82
Albany Pro Musica presents Bach St John Passion
March 28, 8:00 pm
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall, Troy, NY

Blair Raker ’99
Performance
January 20, 1:00 pm
Washington, DC

Performance
February 8, 2:00 pm
Plaistow, NH

Performance
February 9, 7:00 pm
Lynn, MA

Performance
February 10, 7:00 pm
Acton, MA

Frances Coan Roberts ’64
Brahms REQUIEM
March 29, 7:00 pm
Tilles Center of LI University, CW Post Campus

Marcel Rominger ’02
Carnegie Hall Debut
January 17, 8:30 pm
marcelrominger@gmail.com

Arlene Sturm ’62
Epiphany Rally Ring
January 11, 3:00 pm
Tucson, Arizona

Kristian Truelson ’76
Acting in “ The Man Who Shot Chance Delaney”
February 28-March 7
Western Canada Theatre, Kamloops, BC

Acting in “Ah, Wilderness!” by Eugene O’Neill
April 23-May 23
Chemainus Theatre Festival, Chemainus, BC

Scott Verity ’74
Guest Conductor
January 18
Tilles Center- CW Post College