Dr. Van Derck Frechette, an internationally known ceramic scientist, died Tuesday, March 20, 2001, at his home in Alfred. A 1939 alumnus of Alfred University, he taught in the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science for more than 40 years. Click here for more...

Members of Alfred University's art faculty will exhibit in "Icyhot," a multi-media show at artSite, a not-for-profit gallery in Wellsville that is a joint venture of the School of Art and Design and the community. Click here for more...

Team CERAMICS – three ceramic engineering students and a December 2000 graduate of the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science at Alfred University – say their flights aboard the “Vomit Comet” were well worth it, even if they experienced the motion sickness which earned NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Program its unappealing name. Click here for more...

Work by Anne Currier, Kevin Wixted and Carlos Szembek, all members of the faculty of the School of Art and Design at Alfred University, will be on display at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Harder Hall, on the Alfred University campus Feb. 21- March 23. Click here for more...

Team CERAMICS - three ceramic engineering students and a December 2000 graduate of the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science at Alfred University - are in Houston, TX, awaiting their opportunity to fly on the "Vomit Comet." Click here for more...

Dr. Arun Varshneya, professor of glass science, invited to deliver a lecture at the Indian Ceramic Society's annual meeting, was in the country when the devastating earthquake struck, but was 350 miles from the epicenter. Click here for more...

Fred Troller, professor of graphic design and chairman of the Division of Graphic Design at the School of Art and Design, has a solo exhibition, "Recent Works: Masks, Motorcycles, Bulldogs," at the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT, Library through Feb. 23. Click here for more...

Alfred University's School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science is among the academic/research partners in a just-announced New York State initiative to create a "Center for Excellence in Photonics" and Optoelectronics in Rochester. Click here for more...

Leopold Foulem, a noted Canadian ceramist, will open a one-person show Jan. 25 at the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred. Click here for more...

Three artists whose recent works have explored the flow of water will exhibit at the Fosdick-Nelson Gallery in Harder Hall on the AU campus. "Fluency: Sculpture by John Roloff, Katherine Ross and Walter McConnell" opens Jan. 24. Click here for more...