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As she steps inside the prison and the bars clank behind her, Ayisha Khalid ’24 enters a world unlike anything she has seen before. 

As she strolled across campus, breathing in the crisp North Country air and soaking up the afternoon sun, Annabel Ubeda ’25 knew right away that SUNY Potsdam felt like home. After a five-and-a-half-hour drive from her home in White Plains, N.Y., she arrived for Transfer Weekend and an overnight stay at the College.

Short-term, Solution-Focused Counseling ServicesThe SUNY Potsdam Counseling Center serves to provide an opportunity for students to address psychological and emotional challenges to promote a healthier, more successful student body. The Counseling Center provides consultation, assessment, counseling, referrals, and related services to students while they pursue their educational goals. Our services assist students with identifying and addressing facets of their behavioral, psychological, emotional and cultural experiences which may present as barriers to their success.

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Since its inception over two decades ago, the Learning & Research Fair has invited faculty, staff, and students to share their research, teaching/learning innovations, creative efforts, and scholarly achievements.2026 Learning & Research FairMay 6, 202610 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. (luncheon at noon)Barrington Student Union MPR

Since she was four years old, Delphine Léonard ’20, has been speeding around the ice on hockey skates. “My two brothers were playing and I just wanted to do everything they were doing,” she said. A native of Quebec, she is the only French speaking student on SUNY Potsdam’s women’s hockey team — choosing to attend the College last year after head coach Jay Green recruited her during a scouting trip to Montreal.

Since she started at SUNY Potsdam five years ago, Assistant Professor Dr. Julie Hunter has been bringing the music and cultural traditions of West Africa to students at The Crane School of Music. Hunter received her Ph.D. in ethnomusicology from Brown University in 2012, and has taken seven trips to Ghana in West Africa to conduct research over the years—including her most recent trip this past August.

Since she started at SUNY Potsdam in 2013, Assistant Professor Iggy Beerbower has been bringing her passion for photography to her students. Five years into her tenure she brought seven of her students on a unique travel course to Cuba.

Sitting behind the wheel of a New York State Police vehicle, Davanté Parker, a junior criminal justice major at SUNY Potsdam, speeds through a series of yellow cones as a state trooper tracks his speed and accuracy. But instead of getting a traffic ticket, Parker is being graded on his efforts, as part of an emergency vehicle operation course.

Sitting at the end of a small half-moon-shaped table in her father’s kindergarten classroom, Hannah McArthur ’25 works with a student to form letters on the page. She shadows her father, a SUNY Potsdam alumnus and special educator at Phoenix Elementary School, as he works with a separate student on the other side of the table. Still an elementary student, McArthur teaches foundational literacy skills, utilizing the same techniques as her father—a hands-on experience foreshadowing her academic path at SUNY Potsdam as she now pursues a degree in childhood / early childhood education.