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Mary Catherine Sawyer ’19 landed her first job just months after graduating from SUNY Potsdam. With degrees in music education and theatre education—and extensive student teaching experiences as an undergraduate—she’s well prepared for her career as a music teacher in the Bronx, N.Y.

Maria Hepel and six of her students, Amanda Marrota, Mackenzie Palmer, Madison Smith, Ty Santiago, Ricardo Espinal and Liyuan Ji attended and presented at the Northeast Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society in Burlington, NY, October 5-8, 2016.

Exploring the Barriers and Latino Experience in K-12 Music Education With my project, titled “Exploring the Barriers and Latino Experience in K-12 Music Education”, I hope to increase the accessibility of music education among Latino

  [[{"fid":"13033","view_mode":"default","type":"media","attributes":{"style":"height:115px; width:116px","class":"file-default media-element"}}]] Mark Campbell, Award-winning, American Librettist. Winner, with composer Martin Hennessy, of the 2014 Domenic J. Pellicciotti Opera Composition Prize for A Letter to East 11th Street   

Mark Misiak is heading into his eighth season as head coach for the SUNY Potsdam women’s soccer team. Misiak grew up in Ontario and spent his college years playing soccer at SUNY Plattsburgh before making his way to SUNY Potsdam to start his career as a coach. Last year, he was named the State University of New York’s Athletic Conference Coach of the Year after setting a SUNY Potsdam single-season record with 12 overall wins (five within the SUNYAC conference). Can you talk about your youth and what eventually brought you to Potsdam?

As Mark Murphy ’25 taps out line after line of code, he’s not just building a video game—he’s helping redefine how students learn biology.“It’s great. We’ve gotten to use a lot of technologies that you hear about in class—tools that software developers use in the real world," Murphy said.

Mark your calendar for the next Reunion celebration!Reunion 2026: July 9 - 12Reunion 2027: July 8 - 11   

Martha Arapis, Soprano David Aronson, Vocal Coach Anton Belov, Baritone Stephanie Blythe, Mezzo-soprano Guest Artist in Residence Christine Brewer, Soprano Janet Brown '79, Soprano, Syracuse University Music Faculty

Master of Science in Management Becomes SUNY Potsdam’s First Fully Online Degree Program As COVID-19 pushes a fundamental reset in how the global population thinks about work and getting an education, the SUNY Potsdam Department of Business Administration has announced its first fully online degree program — the Master of Science in management.

As he mastered sculpting, painting and graphic design in SUNY Potsdam’s Department of Art, Evan Blondell ’06 had no way of knowing that he was planting the seeds for a fruitful career as a landscape architect. Armed with an artistic eye, and years of training, Blondell now works in major urban centers to transform the landscape into breathtaking parks that intertwine modern design with nature.