Campus highlights
Polaris Powering Powersports
College Graduates Inaugural class in Bosnia While a growing number of students spend time studying abroad during their collegiate years, few return home with two degrees, much less from institutions half a world apart. Nearly two dozen students who attended the American University in Bosnia and Herzegovina (AUBiH) graduated last May with a degree from their home university and one from SUNY Canton. The students are the first from their university to earn a SUNY Canton bachelor’s degree in Finance in addition to their degree earned at AUBiH. Most of the students graduating spent the summer of
Wave the checkered flag! SUNY Canton’s Powersports Performance and Repair program has had a wildly successful year. In the fall, the program received three new vehicles from Polaris Industries worth over $30,000. “Polaris Industries has been instrumental to our program’s success, and we have placed graduates within Polaris dealerships around the country,” said Mark R. Hill, instructor for the program. “These new vehicles enable us to keep our curriculum technically current and relevant for our students.” This spring, students within the program are working on two projects. The Powersports program is co-sponsoring the American Motorcycle Association (AMA) Pro Racing national race with St. Lawrence Radiology. Students are building a vintage endurance racer for Clyde E. Crouch of Hess Oil Corporation. Mr. Crouch recently donated $7,000 to the Powersports and Mechanical Engineering programs. Students are also rebuilding a vintage Henderson motorcycle made by the Schwinn Bicycle Company for the cross-country 2012 Motorcycle Cannonball endurance race.
2009 on campus taking face-to-face classes with Associate Professor Charles R. Fenner, who oversees the Management program. Dubravko Martinovi, one of the top students at AUBiH, addressed his classmates, local and abroad, at SUNY Canton’s Commencement. “To be the first at something gives one great satisfaction, and we are proud to be the first generation of graduates from AUBiH,” he said. “I want to thank you for four memorable years and an unforgettable semester spent at SUNY (Canton). For us, it was never just an education; it was a life experience.”
Scholarships Available for Engineering Technology Students
Finger Paintings
An internship required by senior Nicholas Finger’s major gave him the chance to display his talents for the North Country to see. The senior SUNY Canton Graphic and Multimedia Design student from the Albany area displayed his digital photography, paintings, and multimedia illustrations at the St. Lawrence County Art Council Gallery in Potsdam this spring. www.canton.edu
The Canino School of Engineering Technology has a handful of scholarships available, each worth $28,800 over four years, for incoming engineering technology students, thanks to a $596,160 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded to SUNY Canton last summer. The scholarships will be awarded to students in pursuit of a bachelor’s degree or enrolled in a two-year associate degree program with plans of earning their four-year degree. Scholarships are also available to transfer students. Priority will be given to students who are academically talented and economically disadvantaged, as well as underrepresented minorities and women. For more information about SUNY Canton’s SSTEM project, visit: www. canton.edu/nsfsstem.
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2011 SUNY Canton Magazine