School of Arts and Sciences

David G. Haggstrom, Angelica, has been named to the board of the Educational Foundation of Alfred, Inc. As a board member, Haggstrom will contribute his skills to the management of the property affairs, business, and concerns of the corporation; he will also participate in the adoption of resolutions and regulations for the conduct of the management of the affairs of the corporation.

A Web site has been created by an independent business owner to coordinate communication about the Main Street, Alfred fire victims. The Web site includes information about the employee relief fund and what you can do to help. Please visit www.alfredrebuilds.com.

Thomas Dayton, a student in the automotive parts technology curriculum, received the Counter Professional of the Year for 2009 award. Read more in aftermarketNews.

Dr. John 0. Hunter, former president of Alfred State College (1986-93), returned to campus in late October for the ERGO Fall Poetry Reading. Hunter, who spent the summer in Scotland studying poet Robert Burns, recited a Burns poem and several poems by students at the Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota.

Members of the planning team for the Center for Organic and Sustainable Agriculture (COSA) at Alfred State College met recently to “seal the deal” with Agricultural Engineering Services, PLLC, (AES), Auburn, chosen by ASC to be the lead engineers for the College’s new Dairy Facility Expansion.  The project will build facilities to teach, demonstrate, and do research on organic and sustainable dairy production, organic crop

Three Alfred State College George Richardson, interim dean, Alfred State’s School of Applied Technology, “The project team will be working around the clock for one week to re-build this home. The students are from the Buffalo area; they signed up and were selected to help. We are very proud of them and excited for them!”

Alfred State College’s Department of English and Humanities has undertaken a semester-long project on climate change. Students in some composition sections have been researching climate change and writing papers on various narrow topics related to it. The final examination for all sections of the foundation writing courses will also focus on climate change, and the exam itself will be written during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December.

Students enrolled in Alfred State College’s motorsports technology program recently traveled to Mooresville and Concord, NC, to get an insider’s view of professional racing. 

“Trips such as our Race Country trip are designed to broaden the education of the motorsports technology students,” says Automotive Trades Department, who accompanied them. “We expose them to the real, professional part of the motor sports industry—the down and dirty yet fun and profitable part of their chosen future.”