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March 12, 2025

Alumni Spotlight is an electronic newsletter produced by the Alfred University Office of Marketing and Communications and published periodically throughout the year. It aims to highlight news and accomplishments of our amazing alumni. Alumni news is included in the Class Notes section of the Alfred alumni magazine, which is published twice a year. The Alumni Spotlight newsletter serves to provide alumni news in the interim. To submit an item for Alumni Spotlight, please email Mark Whitehouse.

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Madeleine Lomax-Vogt ’17 working as post-doctoral researcher in Austria

Madeleine Lomax-Vogt is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna Department of Environmental Geosciences (EDGE) in the Austrian capital of Vienna. Her research is focused on developing methods to analyze and identify vehicle non-exhaust brake wear nanoparticles and microparticles.

 
 
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Michael Christakis ’99 set to begin service as NASPA Board Chair

Alfred University alumnus Michael Christakis ’99 is set to begin his term as chair of the Board of Directors of NASPA-Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education for 2025-26. NASPA is the leading association for the advancement, health and sustainability of the student affairs profession, with 13,000 members in all 50 states, 25 countries and eight U.S. territories.

 
 
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Kathleen Richardson ’82, MS ’88, PhD ’92 receives prestigious ICG President’s Award

Alfred University alumna Kathleen Richardson, ’82, MS ’88, PhD ’92, was named recipient of the International Congress on Glass (ICG) President’s Award for 2025.

 
 
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Prolific pumpkin carver Eric Jones ’97 earns place in Guinness Book of World Records

Alfred University alumnus Eric Jones ‘97, increasingly renowned for his sculpting prowess, is one of four New Yorkers who entered the Guinness Book of World Record last year.

 
 
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