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Miner Institute, Environmental Science Celebrate 40-Year Collaboration

As an environmental science major, Joe Thouin ’04 had what you might call a Miner obsession. Read more.

Managing Your Job Search: Tips from the Career Development Center

Today’s tight job market calls for a new approach. Now, more than ever, prospective employees have to be savvy in building skills and reputation.. Read more.

Class Uses Campus Civility Initiative to Study Issue Among Students

A campaign at SUNY Plattsburgh to foster civility among faculty and staff spurred a communication professor to ask her students: Just how civil are they? Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh, 'A World-Class Institution'

SUNY Plattsburgh has topped the charts for a second year in a row when it comes to international students’ overall satisfaction, according to the Fall 2011 International Student Barometer. Read more.

Donor Funds Bluegrass for Next Generation

Sixty youth and adults will travel across the globe this year — from sub-Saharan Africa all the way to SUNY Plattsburgh — for short-term study through the new Youth Leadership Program with Francophone Africa. Read more.

Preparing for Year-Round Adventure

Youth Leadership Program to Bring 60 to Plattsburgh from Sub-Saharan Africa

New $14 Million Building to Enhance Computer Science, Business Offerings

Structure to feature case classroom, lab with stock-market ticker, reconfigurable spaces and more. Read more.

Fitness and Wellness Leadership Major Completes Internship at Famous Spa

Sarah Pope spent her summer a long way from her home in Long Island, doing an internship at The Oaks at Ojai in California. Read more.

New Study Option Combines Environmental Science, Leadership

The Professional Science Master’s in Environmental Science study option provides training in leadership/business skills, as well as in-depth science coursework, so that graduates may pursue more advanced careers in environmental agencies or private industry. Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh Students Awarded for Plant-Related Studies

IThis year, three SUNY Plattsburgh students were among only 25 students in the United States and Canada to receive the society’s Young Botanist Award. Seniors Sasha Dow-Kitson of Trinidad and Tobago, Lilly Schelling of East Schodack and Alex Scharf of Malone were given the honor in recognition of plant-related studies and high academic standing. Read more.

Odyssey Freshman Adventure Serves Up Fun and Friendship

Incoming freshmen can start their college career with a bang and form new friendships as they hike, paddle and climb their way through SUNY Plattsburgh’s Odyssey Freshman Adventure program. Read more.

Spring Break Trip Provides Lessons on Political Ecology, Conservation

This spring break found one SUNY Plattsburgh class still in session – in Costa Rica.. Read more.

International Students Rank SUNY Plattsburgh #1

They were two simple words, but for Dr. Kathleen Fowler ’96 those words – “don’t quit” – are still making a difference. Read more.

Students Volunteer at Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation

For 17 years, SUNY Plattsburgh has offered the Alternative Break program as an opportunity for students to participate in community service through extended volunteer experiences. Projects over the years have included working with children, building homes and working with the homeless. Read more.

Program Helps International Students Make Lasting Bonds

When he came to Plattsburgh, Nishank Bhalla ’10 found more than a “home away from home.” Read more.

Cardinal Points Receives Perfect All-American Ranking

Cardinal Points, SUNY Plattsburgh’s independent, student-run newspaper, was named an All-American recipient for the fall 2010 semester, receiving for the first time five marks of distinction — a perfect ranking. Read more.

Computer Science Department Marks its 40th Year

Although it’s associated with modern technology, SUNY Plattsburgh’s computer science department has a history that’s older than some alumni. Read more.

PR, Journalism Students Go Into Crisis Mode

Emergency drill introduces students in SUNY Plattsburgh’s Principles of Public Relations class to the rigors of crisis management. Read more.

Literary Journal Showcases Students’ Exceptional Work

SUNY Plattsburgh’s literary journal, Zplatt, offers students a chance to learn first-hand what it takes to get published. Read more.

Short-Term Study Abroad Opens SUNY Plattsburgh Students’ Eyes

As a student in “Political Economy of Sustainable Development” class, Lisa Zimmerman had been introduced to some of the issues facing Nicaragua. Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh Club ‘Pumpkin-Chucks’ Its Way to Glory

A group of SUNY Plattsburgh students placed third in a contest of ingenuity, engineering … and pumpkin smashing. Read more.

Cardinal Points

SUNY Plattsburgh’s student newspaper earns spot in associated Collegiate Press Hall of Fame. Read more.

David H. Levy Observatory: Educational Tool for Students and Scientists

To one renowned astronomer, a longtime SUNY Plattsburgh treasure shines because of its darkness. Read more.

Accounting

AARP Tax-Aide Internship program prepares SUNY Plattsburgh students. Read more.

Psychology

Student/faculty research indicates way to prevent cigarette litter. Read more.

Art Program

Ceramic students' art helps feed the hungry. Read more.

Teacher Education

Programs earn national accreditation. Read more.

Theater Program

SUNY Plattsburgh students direct production of Ionesco play. Read more.

Hawkins Hall Science Lab Ground-Breaking

Photo of students learning to kayak during the Odyssey program Work begins on new state-of-the-art science building that will provide students with a facility comparable to what they will find in a career in the science. Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh Athletics Celebrates Strong Winter Sports Season

This winter, five SUNY Plattsburgh teams made it to their conference playoffs and three went even farther. Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh Launches New M.S. in Natural Science

Enhanced by access to the Adirondacks and Lake Champlain, SUNY Plattsburgh is pleased to announce a new graduate degree program. Read more.

SUNY Plattsburgh Students Trek To Nepal

A call to adventure from Dr. Larry Soroka brought 21 SUNY Plattsburgh students from a variety of academic disciplines to the other side of the world. Read more.

ESPN Sportswriters Visit SUNY Plattsburgh Campus

Write, write and write some more. This was advice given to future sportswriters by John Scher, senior baseball editor for ESPN The Magazine, and Buster Olney, senior baseball writer for ESPN The Magazine and contributor to "Sports Center" and "Baseball Tonight." The two spoke at a forum hosted by fellow ESPN sportswriter Luke Cyphers, an adjunct journalism lecturer at SUNY Plattsburgh. Read more.

New Ecology Major Offers Students a Field of Study Right Outside Their Door

The College has become the first in SUNY to offer an undergraduate major in ecology. SUNY Plattsburgh students will have the opportunity to study and research forest, lake, river and wetlands ecology in areas that are literally on their doorstep. Read more.

School of Business Offers New Major in Global Supply Chain Management

When the great industrialist Henry Ford discovered assembly-line proficiency, others like him quickly followed suit, and American industry was revolutionized by increased efficiency and decreased cost. Today, manufacturing facilities may be half the world away from the assembly plants. Read more.

Who Says Women Don't Do Science?

Jenny Winch and Jaime Potter are both working on a research project with Dr. Mary Roden-Tice, studying the uplift history of the Adirondacks and New England, and learning a lot about themselves in the process. Their hard work has earned them an invitation to study the (U-Th)/He method of dating geological specimens at Yale this summer. Read more.

Theatre Department Explores the Dark Side of Morality in "An Inspector Calls"

Written by J.B. Priestly (1894-1984) during the final years of the Second World War, "An Inspector Calls" is a brilliantly compelling and haunting thriller. Plattsburgh State professor, and director, Dr. John Shout describes the play as "a kind of thriller, but of a particularly disturbing sort." Read more.

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