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When Susan Vroman Cavanagh ’77 thinks about SUNY Potsdam, she thinks about family—not only because her younger siblings (opera singer Lisa Vroman ’79 and School of Education Alumni Board President David Vroman ’83) followed in her footsteps at the College, but because her time at The Crane School of Music was formed by special relationships that made Potsdam feel like home.

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When Wilber Parada ’20 arrived at SUNY Potsdam his freshman year as a first-generation college student, he already had a vision for his future. His plans to one day become a Doctor of Physical Therapy would involve years of hard work, completing undergraduate and graduate degrees, and passing the National Physical Therapy Examination.

When you register for each semester, SUNY Potsdam will track whether your credits count toward your degree program using Student Outcome Tracking (SOT), an application that integrates with BearDeN (DegreeWorks). Federal and state regulations stipulate that you are eligible for financial aid only if you are registered for aid-eligible credits; aid-eligible credits are credits that count towards your primary major degree requirements.

When you think of gold, it’s normally associated with wealth rather than health. SUNY Potsdam alumnus Ty Santiago ’17 is turning that perspective on its head while researching new methods for administering chemotherapeutics through gold nanoparticles. “We load them up (gold nanoparticles) with our anti-cancer drugs and it acts as a vehicle and carries them to the target site,” said Santiago. “You’re not seeing damage to healthy tissue to the extent that you would with the traditional method.”

Whenever state property is found missing or to have been stolen, the Office of University Police is to be notified immediately. University Police personnel will initiate an immediate investigation and prepare and file required investigative reports.

Where tech and music merge with the literary, Crane alum delivers impactMarc Schonbrun '00 came for the music—and stayed for the plot twists that would throw in a literary career and finally land him in key software technology management roles for Apple.Looking back on his trajectory since graduating from The Crane School of Music, Schonbrun remembers a delicate web of events that were impossible to foresee and for which he just had to be grateful—as if they were pulled into place by invisible hands. 

Whether she’s visiting an ecovillage in Ireland, conducting a research project on a community garden, or cleaning a boa constrictor tank in the Department of Biology, Amber Rudolph ’20 has been gaining a cornucopia of applied learning experiences, while pursuing a double major in biology and environmental studies at SUNY Potsdam.

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