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May 1, 2025

E-news is an electronic newsletter for Alfred University alumni and friends to provide the latest in alumni news and events, campus happenings, and sports. If you have news to share please email Mark Whitehouse or you may call us at 607-871-2040.
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Alfred University Launches Institute for Experiential Entrepreneurship

Alfred University on Thursday, May 1, announced the launch of the Institute for Experiential Entrepreneurship. The IEE is built on the belief that the best way to learn business is to do business.

 
 
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Two Alfred University students honored with SUNY Chancellor’s Awards

Two Alfred University seniors are recipients of the 2025 State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor’s Award for Student Excellence. Emily Woo and Roque Santiago were among students from 64 SUNY campuses to receive the award from Chancellor John B. King Jr. during an April 29 ceremony in Albany.

 
 
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Alfred University Libraries participating in study on AI integration into teaching

Alfred University is among a group of just 45 colleges and universities nationwide leading a study on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) literacy into curricula at institutions of higher education.

 
 
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Alfred University faculty and students celebrated at Honors Convocation

Students and faculty were celebrated for their achievements during Alfred University’s annual Honors Convocation Friday afternoon, April 25, in Miller Theater. Among the honorees were Abby Hurley, coordinator of the Beth Robinson Judson Leadership Center, who received the prestigious Abigail Allen Award, and students Marcella Peccorini and Elijah Hammarlund, winners of the 2025 Marlin Miller Outstanding Senior Award.

 
 
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Alfred University students present at Undergraduate Research Forum

More than 100 Alfred University students participated in the 2025 Undergraduate Research Forum, held Thursday, April 24, in the Joyce-Walton Center.

 
 
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Semester’s end: Students in English Professor Allen Grove’s Publishing Practicum bring out their own books

Gaia McCune, a fourth-year English major at Alfred University, recently put the finishing touches on a project she had been working on through the spring 2025 semester: a new edition of Sarah Edgarton Mayo’s 1844 book, The Flower Vase. Gaia’s introduction explores the history of floriography, the language of flowers that was popular in the Victorian period.

 
 
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Alfred University senior Emma Suplicki aspires to advocate for humane treatment of horses

Alfred University senior Emma Suplicki has a lifelong love for horses. The political science major from East Concord, NY, began riding at 5 years old and is a member of Alfred’s Western equestrian team, serving the last three years as a team captain.

 
 
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Alfred University English Professor Juliana Gray leads workshop at Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat

Alfred University Professor of English Juliana Gray recently taught a creative writing workshop and read from her work at the Ossabaw Island Writers’ Retreat, off the coast of Georgia. The island and the Writers’ Retreat have served for nearly 70 years as a haven for writers, artists, musicians, and scientists.

 
 
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Alfred University and Alfred State College Announce The Alfred Cup Competition

At a press conference Tuesday, April 29, at the intersection of Main and Pine streets in the village of Alfred, Alfred University Athletics and Alfred State College Athletics introduced ‘The Alfred Cup’ ahead of the 2025-26 competition season.

 
 
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M.F.A. student Kameo Chambers’ original film screened on Brooklyn Free Speech TV

Kameo Chambers, a second-year M.F.A. student at Alfred University, presented a month-long screening of her original film project "If Not Now, When?" on BRIC’s Brooklyn Free Speech TV network throughout the month of April.

 
 
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Assistant Professor of Photography Kelsey Sucena joins Queer Ecologies symposium at Kansas University

Kelsey "Chloë" Sucena, assistant professor of photography in Alfred University’s School of Art & Design Division of Expanded Media, New York College of Ceramics, exhibited her work this week in an exhibition on Queer Ecologies at Kansas University, Lawrence, KS.

 
 
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