Physical and Life Sciences

Alfred State Associate Professor and Department Chair of the Business Department Mark Bloxsom and Lecturer in the Physical and Life Sciences Department Jennifer Ross were honored with the Student Advocate Award during the 40th annual Honors Convocation. Student Senate President Kaytlinn Cattrell presented the award that is given to college employees that have gone above and beyond to help students be successful at Alfred State College.

Students credit Bloxsom for going above and beyond, for being a tremendous help, and for making constant effort to keep students engaged. 

Students in a pair of Nutrition classes taught by Jennifer Ross sold Stearn’s chicken barbecue meals to raise money for the Alfred State Community Needs Hub. The group raised $447 to be used to help other students suffering from food insecurity.

Alfred State’s Dr. Angela Graves is honored to be one of only ten fellows announced by Chancellor John B. King, Jr. in the inaugural class for the Civic Education and Engagement and Civil Discourse Fellowship for the State University of New York (SUNY).

Students from seven different schools participated in Alfred State’s annual science and technology fair. Students from Alfred-Almond, Canaseraga, Canisteo-Greenwood, Hornell, Portville, Southern Tier Catholic School, and Wildwood BOCES competed in three divisions.

Alfred State professors, staff, and students served as judges. Students demonstrated their projects and answered questions from the judges. After a series of deliberations, the results were announced and celebrated by Vice President for Academic Affairs Carrie Cokely, PhD.

Alfred State students in Stephen Bauer’s virology class had the opportunity to interact and ask questions to Nobel Prize winner Dr. David Baltimore.

Dr. Baltimore, an American virologist, shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1975 with Homar M. Temin and Renato Dulbecco. The research of all three men contributed to an understanding of the role of viruses in the development of cancer.

Alfred State provided the combination of academics and athletics for Sarah Rivet. She found success in the classroom as a forensic science technology major and was able to compete on the cross country course and on the track.

“The forensic science program is an accredited program that really prepares you for the workforce and Alfred State has a really good track program with a coach that I really was interested in competing for.”

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Amanda Brady has been able to follow her passion in and outside the classroom at Alfred State. 

Amanda was drawn to Alfred State from her home in the suburbs of New Jersey by the FEPAC accreditation of the forensic science technology program. She also has added a biological sciences degree.

“I was looking for a FEPAC accredited school and that left me with three options withing an eight-hour radius. Alfred State had the best instrumentation and the most hands-on experiences. Alfred State also starts with forensic classes in your first year.”

During the spring semester, Dr. Steve Bauer took his Biotechniques class to visit BioSpherix (Parish, NY). BioSpherix is known for their biosafety cabinets.

BioSpherix was founded over 30 years ago, after their founder created the first device to control oxygen levels in an incubator. The company, through the development of the Xvivo System, is able to safely engineer new tracheal implants for small children born without a trachea.

Alfred State College (ASC) hosted a forum that focused on enhancing the local healthcare workforce. Administrators from three local hospitals, St. James, Noyes, and Jones Memorial, along with Elderwood learned more about the educational opportunities available at the college.