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Potsdam researchers study an insect imperiling New York forestsAs the emerald ash borer eats its way through Northern New York forests, SUNY Potsdam’s Dr. Jess (Rogers) Pearson and her team are getting out ahead with tools to understand and hopefully curtail the threat. Funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the team has released parasitoids that attack the borer at multiple experiment sites in St. Lawrence County.

Potsdam sometimes experiences severe weather conditions, most notably during the winter months, when heavy snowfall and icy roads can be a safety concern. In general, as a residential campus, SUNY Potsdam tries to maintain classes and services as fully operational as possible.

Potsdam Students Hit the Road to Hunt for Clues to an Astonishing PastA mere dot in the stark and rising landscape of El Capitan in the Guadalupe Mountains of west Texas, Ty Paddock ’25 stared at the slopes of the enveloping mass and realized he was witnessing an ancient reef system formed when the land all around him was the bottom of the Delaware Sea, some 275 million years ago.

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As a preamble for her education and career, Sara Behuniak ’14 found herself playing the role of a lead defense attorney in high school. A reading of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood” set the stage for a mock courtroom trial as Behuniak and her classmates brought the pages of Capote’s non-fiction masterpiece to life—and in doing so, she found her true calling. “I loved it. It took that one class before I was hooked and I knew I wanted to be a lawyer,” Behuniak recalled.

The pre-employment police basic training course hosted by the Law Enforcement Training Institute at SUNY Potsdam has a maximum availability of 24 students per Spring semester. There are three ways to enroll in the institute's program:

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