Dr. Robert L. Snyder, who taught at Alfred University from 1970 to 1996, will deliver the annual John F. McMahon Lecture at 11:20 a.m., Thursday, Oct. 25, in Holmes Auditorium, Harder Hall, on the AU campus. Click here for more...

James Melchert, professor emeritus in the Department of Art Practice at the University of California (UC)-Berkeley, is scheduled to give the Ninth Annual Dorothy Wilson Perkins Lecture on Thursday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m., in Nevins Theatre, Powell Campus Center, on the Alfred University campus. The program is open to the public free of charge. Click here for more...

“EarthCloud,” a soaring porcelain tile installation by Wayne Higby, professor of ceramic art at Alfred University, will be dedicated at 5 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in the Miller Performing Arts Center on the AU campus. Click here for more...

Two students and a professor from Alfred University have been invited to participate in the 2007 International Society for Ceramics Art Education Exchange Symposium (ISCAEES) at University College for the Creative Arts-Farnham, Great Britain, Oct. 15-26, 2007. This marks the first time Alfred University will have a presence at the global forum. Click here for more...

A team of Alfred University Mechanical Engineering students and alumni challenged some of the largest automakers – and won – in the Extreme Green Race (XGR) in Lake Tahoe Sept. 29 The team built a gravity race car – a super version of the Pine Hill racers that AU engineering students have built for years – and entered the annual XGR race. Click here for more...

Microwave ovens made cooking quicker, more convenient and cheaper; now researchers at Alfred University are hoping to accomplish the same thing with kilns for firing ceramics. Click here for more...

University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) materials science and engineering Professor Rosalia N. Scripa, Ph.D., AU class of 1970, has been named the 2007 recipient of the Ellen Gregg Ingalls/UAB National Alumni Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching. Click here for more...

Artist Rory MacDonald, AU class of 1999, was awarded the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery's Winifred Shantz Award for Ceramists, a $10,000 prize intended to help emerging artists that work with pottery or clay, last Thursday at the gallery. Click here for more...

A six-member Alfred University student team advised by a faculty member is set to race against entrants from corporate America this weekend in the 6th annual Extreme Green (Gravity) Race (EGR) in Lake Tahoe, CA. Click here for more...

The Swindles – including Tammy Brackett, visiting assistant professor in expanded media, and Jean A. Cardinale, associate professor of biology -- will perform “This is the Life … Again” during the weekly Alfred University Bergren Forum on Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, at 12:10 p.m. in the Nevins Theater, Powell Campus Center. Click here for more...