POTSDAM -- SUNY Potsdam will kick off the academic year with a daylong symposium honoring faculty members' excellence in research.

The College's Faculty Scholarship and Research Celebration will be held on Friday, Aug. 26, and will feature talks from Potsdam professors about their latest work.

The event will showcase the College's liberal arts and sciences academic core, as a foundation for creative leadership and interdisciplinary problem solving.

SUNY Potsdam President Dr. John F. Schwaller will introduce the forum, which begins at 8:45 a.m.

There will be four sessions of talks, on topics ranging from history and literature to chemistry and environmental studies.

Faculty members from the college's three schools -- The School of Arts and Sciences, The School of Education and Professional Studies and The Crane School of Music -- will be in attendance.

These talks are all free and open to the public.

All will be offered in Kellas Hall Room 106, between 8:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., with breaks for coffee and lunch between sessions.

The community is invited to come, listen and ask questions about the different projects and endeavors the college's faculty scholars are working on.

This event is sponsored by the Office of the Provost, United University Professions and the SUNY Potsdam Department of Politics.

The schedule for SUNY Potsdam's Faculty Scholarship and Research Celebration is as follows:

9 a.m.: Thomas Baker, "'Slave' Writes Thomas Jefferson"

9:20 a.m.: Rebecca Gerber, "Renaissance Choral Music"

9:40 a.m.: Debbie Anderson and Bruce Brydges, "An Analysis of Four Semesters of Assessment Data Identifying and Improving the Performance of Struggling and High-Risk Teacher Candidates"

10 a.m.: Fadi Bou-Abdallah, "Undergraduate Research in the Chemical Sciences"

10:40 a.m.: Robert Ewy, "Local Solutions to Global Problems: Sustainable Energy Production in the North Country"

11 a.m.: Sergei Abramovich, "Integrating Scholarship and Service to Community"

11:20 a.m.: George Gonos, "The Spread of Precarious Work in the U.S."

11:40 a.m.: Caron L. Collins, "Messengers of Music: The Legacy of Julia E. Crane"

1:30 p.m.: Derek Maus, "Transcending Binaries: How Satirists in Russia and American Literature Undermined the Cold War"

1:50 p.m.: William E. Herman, "A Fulbright Scholar in Thailand"

2:10 p.m.: W. L. Romey, "Individual Differences Shape Group Formation in Bugs and Fish"

2:30 p.m.: Axel Fair-Schultz, "German Scholar in Exile – Juergen Kuczynski: U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel, Soviet Spy and Marxist Economist"

2:50 p.m.: Brian Snee, "Lincoln in Movies and Miniseries"

3:30 p.m.: Susan Stebbins, "The Searchers: Making the West 'a Fine, Good Place'"

3:50 p.m.: Mylene Catel, "Linguistic Cultural Swap Worlds"

4:10 p.m.: Jim German, "Evangelical Environmental Apocalypse: Premillenialist Protestants and Catastrophic Collapse at the End of Time"

For more information about this event, contact Assistant Professor of Politics Dr. Jack McGuire at (315) 267-2914 or mcguirjp@potsdam.edu.