The @ClarksonUniv Brand Story

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We are the Clarkson Golden Knights. The simple heraldry of the Clarkson family shield reflects the grounded confidence Clarkson graduates derive from an all-in education that ignites the personal connections across academic fields and industries to create the entrepreneurial mindset, knowledge and intellectual curiosity needed to innovate world-relevant solutions and cultivate the leaders of tomorrow. Graduates earn salaries that are among the top two percent in the nation and realize accelerated career growth. Among our 43,000+ alumni, one in five already leads as a CEO, senior executive or owner of a company.

The favorite verse of our namesake Thomas S. Clarkson, “the workman that needeth not to be ashamed,” was the motto chosen when our doors opened in 1896 as a new kind of school that blended a technology-rich curriculum with liberal education to meet the real needs of the American people. Today, as a private, national research university, we are a proven leader in technological education and sustainable economic development through teaching, scholarship, research and innovation that invests in a better future for our global world.

#ClarksonIgnite is our catalyst for exploring, creating and achieving what's next. It is every Golden Knight's call to action and the framework we use to fast-track innovation in an open, University-wide environment. With powerful intentionality, we collide disciplines, spark intellectual curiosity and give every student and their teams the tools to pursue solutions to industry challenges, marketplace needs and personal goals. Students sharpen the entrepreneurial mindset, skill sets and experiences that are transferable to future careers in the rapidly evolving economy. Clarkson’s Innovation Hub offers University-wide, highly personalized access to the support networks for innovation and entrepreneurial ventures. We provide collaborative makerspaces and laboratories across the University to roll up our sleeves to firsthand defy convention and push beyond the status quo.

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Clarkson Invests in a Better Future

From faculty to undergraduates, we pursue interdisciplinary research with the mindset, skill sets and intellectual curiosity needed to rapidly solve real-world problems for a better future.

Healthy Global Solutions

With the vast Adirondack Park in our backyard, we embrace our legacy to create global solutions that ultimately protect air, water and habitats. Interdisciplinary faculty teams collaborate across fields to reduce public health threats from environmental contamination and lack of medical care, as well as proactively integrate environmental concerns into best management practices. We develop the energy policies and technologies that lead to the creation of sustainable infrastructure, smart communities and the security of societies.  

Computational and Data-Enabled Discovery

Spanning all of our schools, research institutes and industry partners, we easily cut across disciplines to understand the associations within complex multimodal data sets from countless sources and settings ranging from modern sensor technologies, to computational rich engineering, to social media analytics. Our strengths in dynamical systems lead to innovations learned from data, sensors and controls, business intelligence and financial technology, and artificial intelligence.

Advanced Materials Development

In collaboration with industry and national laboratories, our experts are solving the next wave of challenges confronting the fields of electronics, aeronautics, biotechnology, health, safety and security, mechanical systems, energy generation and storage, and manufacturing technology. Our innovations in tailored material design, synthesis and modeling, functional materials and devices, sensors and sensing systems, drug management and diagnostic tools, and material sourcing and supply chains improve quality of life, accelerate technology performance and ensure sustainable management practices.

Next Generation Medicine and Healthcare

Our global world faces critical challenges to human health, now and in the decades ahead. At Clarkson, we engage in emerging approaches to innovative technologies for preventing, detecting and treating disease, including therapeutic strategies as well as strategies that change our how we make economic, entrepreneurial, social and ethical decisions. Our close affiliations with organizations like the renowned Trudeau Institute and The Mount Sinai Hospital put us at the forefront to lead new healthcare innovation, management and access.  

Each year, Clarkson University is home to several traditional events, including Commencements, Recognition Ceremonies, Family Weekend and alumni weekends. We hope to CU at one of these events soon!

WWII, Clarkson, and A Campus Long Ago

From October 1946 to June 1951, there was a branch of Clarkson University (then the Thomas S. Clarkson Memorial College of Technology) about 40 miles from Potsdam in Malone, NY. It operated out of the former Malone School for the Deaf.

Once the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, commonly known as the G.I. Bill, passed after WWII, Clarkson’s enrollment of veterans grew rapidly. Due to a shortage of both classroom and living accommodations on the Potsdam campus, however, Clarkson’s Board of Trustees decided to include sophomore electrical engineering students at a Malone Branch in fall 1947.

The Clarkson family already had connections to the Malone School for the Deaf: Elizabeth and Frederica Clarkson, who helped found the higher education institution in Potsdam to honor their brother Thomas S. Clarkson, were among the 17 life members who supported founding the School for the Deaf.

Wartime Schedule

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Entering classes for first-year students at Malone began in fall 1946 and spring 1947, as Clarkson remained on a war-time schedule of accelerated instruction. In fall 1947, Clarkson returned to the conventional two-semester program, and classes entered the Malone Branch each fall from 1947 to 1950.

To manage this new Malone Branch, Chester L. Buxton, associate professor of physics, was appointed director. He oversaw an initial staff of 12 instructors, which grew as enrollment increased. When Buxton left to become president of Paul Smith’s College, F. Gordon Lindsey was named his replacement.

Instruction at the Malone Branch covered liberal studies, mathematics, chemistry, physics, drawing, business administration and military science. In addition to academics, students could participate in ROTC and professional societies, as well as intramural and intercollegiate athletics, social clubs and other interest-specific activities. Other events included formal dances at the Malone Armory each spring and the annual Winter Carnival in Potsdam. The student-published newspaper, Clarkson Integrator: Malone Branch, covered campus news and activities.

During its years in operation, the Clarkson Malone Branch formed close ties with the local community. Since the residence halls only accommodated approximately 200 students and lacked space for married students and their families, the Malone community provided lodging, meals and apartments for rent. At the branch’s peak enrollment, the campus and community provided housing for 640 students. The community also helped construct a baseball field for Clarkson and community use.

In return, Clarkson students actively participated in community life. For example, the ROTC students hosted an annual Christmas party for Malone children. Over 500 work-hours were provided in one evening by Clarkson students to develop the Malone Memorial Recreation Park. Students also raised funds to provide a bed unit for the Polio Clinic at Malone’s Alice Hyde Hospital.

The department heads and administrators from Malone and Potsdam held convocations to welcome the students to Malone, inform them of developments occurring at the Potsdam campus and orient them to Clarkson’s instructional departments.

Campus Layout

Two buildings, Gilbert Hall and Badger Hall, were used as student residences. Rider Hall housed administrative offices, faculty apartments, a kitchen and dining hall and spaces for student activities. Clarkson converted another building, constructed in 1897 and originally used as a kindergarten, into a physics laboratory. A 1914 addition to this building provided space for mechanical drawing classes. The newest building on campus, Ransom Hall, built in 1938, offered spaces for classrooms, a gymnasium and faculty offices. What was once the laundry building was converted to a chemistry laboratory.

On May 4, 1951, Clarkson president Jesse H. Davis announced that the Malone Branch would be discontinued after the spring semester. Davis said the campus was no longer needed because of expanded facilities at the Potsdam Campus. In reviewing the five-year history of the Malone Branch, Davis stressed how mutually beneficial the branch had been to Clarkson, the Village of Malone, and Clarkson students.

The Malone Branch closed in June 1951, and operations shifted back to facilities in Potsdam.  

Clarkson University and its Alumni Association honor the students, faculty and staff of the Malone Branch and the support of the Malone community.

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