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Illuminating the North Country
About 2,000 guests joined us in the Quad on Oct. 24 for the return of the LoKo Arts Festival of Lights and the public launch of Deeply Rooted, Future Focused, our $45 million campaign. The night ended with a 200-drone finale set to Crane School of Music archival recordings.
Cameron Hewes ’15 earned a dual degree in music performance and studio art at SUNY Potsdam, then launched CAMco, a niche business that serves professional clarinet musicians and students. Hewes also sells limited-edition linocut prints inspired by his time in Brainerd Hall. His advice: “You have to be greedy about your education."
Dr. Bradley Cech ‘18 studied chemistry and math at Potsdam, earned his doctorate at UVM and is now a visiting assistant professor at Bates College. He credits Potsdam’s chemistry faculty and undergraduate research with shaping his path.
Eliza Smith ’27 has climbed South Colton Cliff, paddled the 90-Miler and backpacked Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains, all through SUNY Potsdam’s Wilderness Education program. Now she’s teaching other students the ropes.
This summer, exercise science major Morgan Williams ’27 interned with ChildVision in Dublin, caring for horses and supporting equine therapy sessions for children with disabilities and special needs. She also visited 10 other countries while abroad. Now she's setting her sights on a career in sports medicine.
Aardvarks, African wild dogs, lions, and giraffes have been walking into camera traps set by SUNY Potsdam's Dr. Bridget Amulike and Dr. Glenn Johnson in Tanzania's Katavi National Park. This summer, the SUNY Potsdam professors set up 32 cameras across Katavi National Park to learn more about wildlife in an area that has received little study. Their goal is to build data that could one day support conservation, while giving Potsdam students hands-on experience in biodiversity research along the way.
Three years ago, Davida Owusu-Achiaa '27boarded a bus to SUNY Potsdam just to keep a friend company. That trip changed everything. Now a senior business administration major, Davida just spent her summer as a leader for the EOP program—guiding the next class of incoming students through the same experience that changed her path.
Sharp trowels, sharper leadership. For the ninth year, Dr. Hadley Kruczek-Aaron led SUNY Potsdam's Archaeology Field School—12 students, one month in the Adirondacks, and a dig into the tourism history at the historic Log Hotel.
