We are excited to share our virtual event schedule for Reunion 2021 with you! No RSVPs necessary. Please note that all times are Eastern Standard Time (EST). Questions? Email us at alumni@canton.edu
Monday, October 11
12 pm (EST)
Student Leader and Young Alumni Panel
Summary: Wondering what college life is like right now? Having trouble imagining campus and club events during the pandemic? Join the experts, the Student Government Associate Executive Board to talk all things on the “extracurricular” side of things at SUNY Canton. They’ve invited alumni to share experience and advice from the first few years of their careers. Come join us for a very interesting and enlightening conversation that builds on our newest tradition at Reunion!
Tuesday, October 12
12 pm (EST)
Keeping Everyone Safe in CyberSpace, with Dr. Kambiz Ghazinour
Summary: Dr. Ghazinour will briefly talk about the CyberSecurity Program at SUNY Canton - the teaching and research aspect of it as well as the method that has been developed to educate internet safety.
Bio: Dr. Kambiz Ghazinour is an Associate Professor in the Cybersecurity program at the SUNY Canton. He is the founder and director of the Advanced Information Security and Privacy (AISP) Lab since 2015. He was an Assistant Professor from 2015 to 2019 at Kent State University in Ohio. His main area of research is data analysis, data security and privacy, social network and healthcare analysis. He received his PhD In 2012 in the area of Data Security and Privacy from University of Calgary, Canada and was a Post-doc Fellow at the University of Ottawa, Canada until 2014.
Dr. Ghazinour has supervised more than 30 Doctorate dissertations, Master's theses and undergraduate students in his lab. He has 64 peer reviewed publications in international conferences and journals and is the organizer, committee member of dozens of conferences. Dr. Ghazinour is PI and Co-Investigator of several grants worth over $2.5M.
Dr. Ghazinour is the founder and CTO of CyberSpara, a company that works on security and privacy enhancing technologies.”
Wednesday, October 13
7 pm (EST)
History Through Data with Dr. Daniel McLane and Kevin McAdoo, Lecturers
Summary: Too often people can think of numbers and statistics as boring, but we can use tools like data visualization to reveal compelling and surprising stories behind the numbers. It may not surprise you that a country's wealth correlates with a longer life expectancy for its citizens. What may surprise you are some of the implications to foreign policy.
Bio: Dr. Daniel Newell McLane is a Lecturer at SUNY Canton, where he teaches Introduction to Sociology, Research Methods, Sociology of Disaster and Population, Public Health, and the Environment. His PhD in Sociology is from Colorado State University. He also holds an MA in International Affairs from American University and an MA in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development from the United Nations’ University for Peace.
Dr. McLane has published on theoretical frames that better describe processes of sustainable development and is currently writing on his research in rural Panama.
Bio: Mr. Kevin McAdoo has a masters degree in mathematics from SUNY Albany. He teaches intermediate algebra, college algebra, pre-calculus, calculus I, calculus II, and statistics.
He obtained solar accreditation for the college in 2014 and worked on a grass pellet research project in 2015. From 2015 to 2017 he ran a Solar Ready Vets program at Fort Drum.
Thursday, October 14
12 pm (EST)
DIY: The Emerging Role of 3-D printing in Academia with Professor Matthew Burnett
Summary: Join Professor Matt Burnett for a lecture on the emerging roles that rapid prototyping is playing in manufacturing, crisis management, and Academia. In this brief lecture he will share a few snapshots from projects that he has been affiliated with recently using 3-D printing technology.
Bio: Matthew is a tenured Canino School of Engineering Technology Professor who teaches in the Graphic and Multimedia Design program and who recently became the Presiding Officer for the Faculty Assembly. He earned his Master of Fine Arts from the Maine College of Art and his Bachelor of Arts from SUNY Plattsburgh. His art is a direct product of his rural Northern New York upbringing. He infuses nature and conservation into nearly all his creative pursuits, which has earned him international acclaim.
In addition to his professorship at SUNY Canton, Matthew is a Fellow at the Munich University of Applied Sciences. He is best known locally for developing the week-long Adirondack Experience Photography Course, an immersive experience that uses the region’s most prominent assets as backdrops for students’ education. Photographs from the course are on display in the Southworth Library Learning Commons Cyber Café. He was also one of the first faculty members to respond at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic by 3D printing face shields for frontline medical workers from his home.
Matthew lives in Saranac Lake with his wife, Amy.
2 pm
50th Reunion Happy Hour – Class of 1971
7 pm
40th Reunion Happy Hour – Class of 1981
Friday, October 15
12 pm
Pop culture, Nostalgia, and a Bit of Games with Morgan Hastings, Lecturer
Summary: The infrangible bond of pop culture and nostalgia; without a point of reference in history does pop culture make a sound if it falls in the woods?
Bio: Morgan Hastings is a game developer vet of 25 years, working at EA Redwood Shores, LucasArts, Papyrus Design Group and others as a 3D environment artist, Character Artist, and art director. He is also an illustrator and professional orchestral musician.
Saturday, October 16
7 pm
Jazz with the Prez
Summary: Join President Szafran, chemist by day, jazz enthusiast by night, as he talks about American jazz pianist and composer Dave Brubeck.