December 6, 2008
Clarkson University's
The Second Annual NNYRI Robotics Tournament - 9:00am
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The Second Annual NNYRI Robotics Tournament - 9:00am
13 November 2008
Noted author and plant scientist Wes Jackson gives talk "What Will the Ecosphere Require from Us?"
Jackson was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship in 1992 for his pioneering work in Natural Systems Agriculture and named by Smithsonian Magazine in 2005 as one of 35 people who have made a difference. In describing his work in 2007, the editors of Scientific American said, "The challenge is monumental, but if these plant scientists succeed, their achievement would rival humanity’s original domestication of food crops over the past 10 millennia, and be just as revolutionary." Clarkson awarded Jackson an honorary degree in 1999 for "his international leadership in developing the principles of ecological agriculture, and for his imaginative and exemplary work as a humanistic visionary in a technological field."
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29 October 2008
Candidates Debate N.Y.S. 23rd Congressional District
On Wednesday October 29th Hon. John McHugh (R) debated challenger Mike Oot(D) at Clarkson University's Old Snell Hall. THe debate was co-sponsered by A.A.U.W. BPW, SUNY Potsdam and Clarkson. Run time 2 hours.
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22 October 2008
Candidates Debate for the 118 New York State Assembly District at Clarkson University
On Wednesday night October 22nd all three candidates for the 118 New York State Assembly District participated in a candidates forum in new Snell Hall on the Clarkson Campus. The event was co-sponored by the American Association of University Women, Business and Professional Womens Organization and Clarkson University’s Center for Excellence in Communication. The candidates attending were Bobby Cantwell (R), Addie Russell (D) and write –in independent candidate Donald Lucas. The debate is 2 hours long. The production crew for the event included members of WCKN Television and students from the fall course Com 310 Mass Media and Society.
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16 October 2008
Clarkson University Dedicates Technology Advancement Center
Trustee Chair Everett G. Foster and President Tony Collins joined Clarkson Trustees, honored guests, faculty and students, and members of New York's public and private sector for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The 16,000-square-foot Technology Advancement Center (TAC) connects the main library and computing space with the University's largest academic building, providing critical laboratory and collaboration space for accelerating the development of research, especially in the fields of renable energy and clean manufacturing technology.
TAC was constructed with a $5 million grant from Empire State Development (ESD), the State of New York's economic development leader and a development partner with the University on its Downtown Campus technology and business incubator project.
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Spirituality and Sexuality
Reverend John Selders speaks about Spirituality and Sexuality in today's community.
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Joyful Ignorance and the Civic Mind
Prof. Bill Vitek’s lecture “Joyful Ignorance and the Civic Mind” is an essay from his book "The Virtues of Ignorance: Sustainability, Complexity, and the Limits of Knowledge," co-edited with Wes Jackson and forthcoming this spring with the University Press of Kentucky. The talk begins with a linguistic analysis of “knowledge” and “ignorance,” and settles on the phrase “joyful ignorance” to describe the state or activity of choosing to ignore the obvious; i.e., ignoring what can easily or myopically be known. Joyful ignorance, Vitek claims, is a willful, defiant, rebellious act in the face of the obvious, of certainty, of security and control, and of domination. He uses the work of forester and philosopher Aldo Leopold to describe what he calls a more civic way of knowing, or the “civic mind,” and ends with some suggestions for educators and policy makers interested in promoting it.
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What's at Stake for Women 2008
With Lisa Maatz, Public Policy Director for the American Association of University Women. Recorded 11/10/2007 at North Country Community College, Saranac Lake, N.Y. for the District 7 Fall Conference.
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Egon's Day: Virginia Clark Clarkson on Science & Humanity and Sir John Meurig Thomas on The Sons of Genius
Virginia Clark Clarkson, Hon. '89, reads her poetry on the theme of science and humanity, with a special focus on Egon Matijevic, Victor K. LaMer Professor of Colloid and Surface Science and Distinguished University Professor. Then the subject changes to science & technology - Sir John Meurig Thomas speaks on "The Sons of Genius: Benjamin Franklin, Michael Farady, and Humphrey Davy." Thomas is professor emeritus of the Royal Institution of Great Britain.October 18, 2007
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Egon's Day: Ivar Giaver on Science & Technology
Science & Technology - Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaver speaks on science and technology. Giaver is professor emeritus of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. October 18, 2007
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New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer at Clarkson Grounbreaking
New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer performs a convention-defying groundbreaking for Clarkson University's Technology Advancement Center as University President Tony Collins and others guests look on. The governor broke ground with a student-built robot, assisted by the school's FIRST Robotics team, comprising of Clarkson students, and Massena and Salmon River high school students. October 9, 2007 Watch the Video Here
Happy Twentieth Anniversary of Clarkson's Center for Advanced Materials Processing October 9, 2007
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Juma Sultan
Clarkson University with support from the National Endowment for the Arts is helping to preserve a cache of unpublished audio recordings of major American jazz artists recorded in the 1960s and 70s by musician and social activist, Juma Sultan. Watch the Video Here
Ann Wright
Ann Wright, former United States diplomat and retired United States Army colonel, spoke in downtown Potsdam on March 8th at Clarkson’s Snell Hall. That evening’s lecture was titled “Dissent in Democracy: How to Avoid the Next Avoidable War.” Ann Wright is one of three senior diplomats who resigned their State Department positions in protest of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 prior to the invasion. In her resignation letter to Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, she wrote “this is the only time in my many years of serving America that I have felt that I can not represent the policies of an administration of the United States”. Since her resignation, she has been an open critic of the current administration’s war in Iraq and their execution of “the war on terror”. Ann Wright’s lectures are sponsored by North Country Veterans for Peace, Save our Constitution, Clarkson University and The State University of New York at Potsdam. Watch the Video Here
Live Music Friday at Arts Central Featuring Lynn McGrath
Classical guitar and Spanish narration. Platero y Yo: hear about a poet and his donkey! February 9th, 2007 Sponsored by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council and What a Racquette Music and Dance. Watch the Video Here
From the Vault: Slaughter House Watch the Video Here
Internet Sportscasting
Internet Sportscasting “Internet Sportscasting” Students in the Communication Course Internet Sportscasting will be providing digital video productions of Clarkson Athletic events on the Internet and on TimeWarner Cable in Potsdam this spring. Broadcasts will include Basketball, LaCrosse and Baseball. Events will be streamed live and archived for later access. Check back often to see events as they are added.
Clarkson Conversation with Filmmaker Byron Hurt
Oct 17, 2006
Byron, on campus to facilitate discussions of the movie “Crash,” sits down to speak with Dean of Arts & Sciences Dick Pratt. Via his production company God Bless the Child Productions, Mr. Hurt produces informative and entertaining documentary films that place America’s race, class and gender issues in sharp focus for close-up examination and cultural criticism. The dean and Byron discuss his work and why he has come to visit our community.
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What's at Stake for Women in 2006
a presentation by Lisa Maatz, Dir Government Relations and Public Policy at the American Association of University Women. North County Cameras were present at SUNY Canton, on October first 2006, for Lisa Maatz presentation about what is at stake for women in the upcoming elections on November 7, 2006.
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Clarkson Conversation with Egon Matijevic
We are celebrating Professor Egon Matijevic 50 year anniversary at Clarkson University. Dean of Arts and Sciences, Dick Pratt, caught up with him right before he left for speaking engagements in Europe and Asia. Dick asks Egon to reflect on his fifty years at Clarkson and his distinguished professional career in colloid chemistry.
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Clarkson Conversation with Andres Lara
October 12, 2006
Dean Dick Pratt speaks with motivational speaker Andres Lara. Andres escaped from Cuba at 16, spoke no English, had no money and was homeless. At age 26 he is a national speaker, president of Inspiration Time Magazine and CEO of A. Success Training, Inc. Lara presented "How to Move Forward When You Feel Like Quitting" at on Thursday, October 12, in the Barben Rooms. From Cape Coral, Florida, Andres is the author of Inspire the Sleeping Giant Within and How to Stay Motivated During Difficult Times. Refreshments will be available. This event is sponsored by SPECTRUM and SHPE (Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers).
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Clarkson Conversation with Sir Harold Kroto
September 18, 2006
Dean of Arts and Sciences Dick Pratt speaks with Sir Harold W. Kroto, 1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry and professor in the Department of Chemistry at Florida State University.
Dr. Kroto won the 1996 Nobel Prize with Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms in the shape of a soccer ball – hence, the name, "buckyballs."
Dick and Sir Harlod explore: what science is, how the media, politicians and others perceive science and scientists, and some of the problems that non-scientists have in understanding the science, engineering and technology upon which our modern world is so completely and precariously balanced.
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Shipley Distinguished Lectureship Series - Sir Harold W. Kroto
Septmeber 18, 2006
Dr. Kroto won the 1996 Nobel Prize with Robert F. Curl and Richard E. Smalley for their discovery of buckminsterfullerene, a molecule consisting of 60 carbon atoms in the shape of a soccer ball – hence, the name, "buckyballs." The discovery of the previously unknown forms of carbon – carbon atoms arranged in closed shells – subsequently has led to the discovery of many new carbon structures that have great significance, both for our present and for our future.
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Clarkson Conversation with Eric Rabkin
Septmeber 1, 2006
Each academic year at Clarkson begins with the Van Sickle Endowed Lecture. This year’s speaker was Eric Rabkin Professor of English and Literature at the University of Michigan. The title of his presentation: "Science Fiction: The Literature of the Technological Imagination." The talk expanded and developed major themes found in the new student summer reading book, Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler. On the morning before the convocation Professor Rabkin took the time to talk with James (Dick) Pratt, Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. Eric and Dick’s discussion includes a preview of the lecture, the connections between science and science fiction, the rewards and difficulties of teaching large lecture classes and the changes that he has seen in the undergraduate students during his career.
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