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Norchi Honored as SUNYAC Men's Lacrosse Player of Week

FREDONIA, N.Y. (March 9, 2010) - Redshirt junior attackman Kyle Norchi (Hauppauge High School) of SUNY Plattsburgh's men's lacrosse team has received the season's first player of the week award from the State University of New York Athletic Conference, for the period ending Sunday. This marks the co-captain's fourth career SUNYAC award, breaking a school record.

Coolidge Named SUNYAC Baseball Player of Week

FREDONIA, N.Y. (March 9, 2010) - The State University of New York Athletic Conference has made SUNY Plattsburgh's Donny Coolidge the first player of the week for the 2010 baseball season, for the period ending Sunday.

SUNY Plattsburgh Presents Frontier Saxophone Quartet

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 8, 2010) - SUNY Plattsburgh music faculty member Daniel Gordon will perform with the Frontier Saxophone Quartet, Sunday, March 28, at 2 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall in Hawkins Hall on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. This event is free and open to the public.

The saxophone quartet consists of Gary Scavone (soprano), Todd Pray (alto), Linda Sullivan (tenor), and Gordon, (baritone). Scavone teaches music technology at McGill University in Montreal; Pray is a music instructor for Peru Central Schools and the director of the Adirondack Youth Orchestra; and Sullivan is the director of the Plattsburgh High School Band and president of the Clinton County Music Educators' Association. The program will feature works by Barry Ulman, Edward MacDowell, Catalan composer Joan Josep Blay, Dutch composer Willem Strietmann, and native New Yorker Arthur Frackenpohl.

Conference to Reinvigorate Teaching Methods

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 4, 2010) -- Revisiting what is essential in education – and pushing the pause button on technology – is at the heart of the Spring 2010 Teaching and Learning Conference, Saturday, April 10.

"Pull the Plug and Light the Fire" is hosted by SUNY Plattsburgh and its Center for Teaching Excellence and is aimed at educators who want to explore and examine the principles and methods at the heart of teaching.

Victorian Images, Antics Part of Magic-Lantern Show

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 4, 2010) -- The American Magic-Lantern Theater will present two shows Thursday, March 25, at 9:45 a.m. and 8 p.m. in Krinovitz Recital Hall, Hawkins Hall, on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus.

The troupe of costumed actors, narrators and singers will dramatize a selection of antique color slides depicting Victorian stories, comedy and songs. The slides will be projected via a 1890s "magic lantern" projector onto a full-size movie screen. Audience involvement will be encouraged, with members tooting on horns, providing sound effects and joining in sing-alongs.

College Presents 'How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying'

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (February 16, 2010) - SUNY Plattsburgh's music and theater departments will present "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," a musical by Frank Loesser and Abe Burrows, March 4 through 7 in Hartman Theatre, Myers Fine Arts Building. Performances will be at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with an additional matinee performance 2 p.m. on Sunday.

SUNY Plattsburgh Receives Stimulus Funds for New Metering System

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 2, 2010) -- A new $375,000 grant will go a long way toward helping SUNY Plattsburgh cut its energy usage, according to college officials.

The grant, which has been awarded to the college through federal stimulus funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will pay for a new campus metering system. The system will provide the college with information on heat, electricity and water usage in all of the buildings.

SUNY Plattsburgh to Host Technology Conference

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 1, 2010) -- SUNY Plattsburgh will play host to some 500 faculty and professionals from colleges across the state and nation at the Conference on Institutional Technologies 2010.

The CIT, now in its 19th year, was first held at SUNY Plattsburgh in 2007. This year's conference, "Classrooms, Continents and Clouds: Who Moved My Chalk?" is expected to draw faculty, instructional support professionals, librarians and administrators from all 64 SUNY campuses as well as private colleges from across the country. The four-day event begins Tuesday, May 25 with pre-conference workshops and a welcome reception.

Drug Czar Awards Grant for Drug-Free Efforts

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 1, 2010) -- The Plattsburgh Campus-Community Partnership has received a five-year, $625,000 grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

This Drug Free Communities grant is one of 161 that will provide a total of $21 million to communities nationwide. The funds will be used to involve and engage the local community in an effort to prevent and reduce alcohol and other drug abuse among youth. This funding is a continuation of an established program and coalition that has existed in the City of Plattsburgh for the past five years.

Pomerance Nominated for Fellowship

PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. (March 1, 2010) - SUNY Plattsburgh's chapter of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi has named Benjamin Pomerance its nominee for the 2010-2011 Phi Kappa Phi Graduate Fellowship Competition.

As the chapter's nominee, Pomerance, a senior double majoring in political science and journalism with a minor in music, has a chance to win one of 57 fellowships of $5,000 or one of three fellowships of $15,000 toward his first year of graduate or professional study.

Contact Information

If you would like more information on any of the following news releases, please contact:

Michelle Ouellette, Associate Director, Public Relations and Publications
SUNY Plattsburgh
Phone: (518) 564-2090
E-mail: news@plattsburgh.edu