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Students across multiple fields and disciplines will publicly display work they’ve done this past school year on Tuesday, May 3, from 5-6:30 PM in the Student Leadership Center on the Alfred campus.

Named the “Student Showcase,” the event is open to families, neighbors and colleagues, alumni and community partners from regional businesses, civic organizations, and local schools who’d like to drop by and see some truly amazing projects. Alfred State students are proud of their accomplishments and are excited to share their innovative research and compelling design work.

Alfred State is pleased to announce that Danielle Green, an instructor and chair of the Business Department, has been named an Open SUNY Online Teaching Ambassador.

Green was nominated by Alfred State as an exemplary online educator, who is both enthusiastic and effective in online teaching, and who can be a positive and strong advocate for online teaching in the SUNY community.

Over the past year, leaders from Allegany County government, higher education, business, and industry in the area have been meeting, researching, and debating a solution for one question that will have an enormous impact on the future of the region, namely: How to retain, expand, and attract employers? The answer comes in the form of a new blueprint for advancing Allegany County economic development.

Alfred State is pleased to announce it has expanded its academic offerings to now include a Bachelor of Science major in health sciences.

Joining with volunteers throughout the US and beyond in celebration of National Volunteer Week and Global Youth Service Day, 220 Alfred State students and students from Alfred University took part in Spring Into Action Day of Service on Saturday, April 16. 

Tim Sanders, the former chief solutions officer at Yahoo and a current sales and leadership keynote speaker, will deliver the keynote address for the 105^th Commencement on May 15.

Last year, a team of five Alfred State students and one professor covered more than 2,300 miles in nine days in a 1953 Dodge Power Wagon tow truck for the 2015 Great Race.

This year, while the college is planning to enter the Power Wagon again, it has also partnered with a family from Illinois to enter an historic vehicle in the race - a 1928 Model A Speedster. Automotive Trades Professor Mike Ronan will again be the faculty adviser for the student team.

Students at Alfred State expect to apply their knowledge to real-world problems. And for two engineering students recently featured in Albany, there was the added benefit of knowing that their invention will help New Yorkers with disabilities.

Alfred State celebrated the achievements of more than 370 students during the 32^nd annual Honors Convocation held Sunday, April 17, with Dr. Kristin Poppo, provost, presiding over the event, and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Mathematics and Physics Lawrence E. Burns serving as grand marshal.

The Alfred State Concert Band played the academic processional to open the ceremony, which was followed by the singing of the national anthem by the Alfred State Men’s Quartet. Larry Greil, adviser of Hillel at Alfred, gave the invocation.

The Honors Program members participated in a virtual conference with Anne Tartarsky, Peace Corps regional recruiter for western New York, on Tuesday, April 12.

Tartarsky, who served in the Peace Corps in the Dominican Republic, described some of the assignments the more than 7,000 current Peace Corps volunteers are engaged in around the world. While she served in the Dominican Republic, Tartarsky taught local people to build and maintain kitchen ovens and stoves. She said, “The amazing sense of community and caring I experienced there will always stay with me.”