Three AU students receive Chancellor�s Awards for Excellence 4/18/02
Two current students and one recent graduate of the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science at Alfred University are among the 187 recipients of State University of New York (SUNY) Chancellor's Awards for Student Excellence who were honored Wednesday in Albany by Chancellor Robert L. King. The Alfred University recipients are:Bradley F. Bowden, son of Bradley S. and Joan Bowden of Alfred, NY, and a graduate of Alfred-Almond Central School.David Fogelman, son of Martin and Elyse Fogelman of Glenmont, NY, and a graduate of Bethlehem Central High School.Anne Gutmann, daughter of Paul and Linda Gutmann of Lake Placid. "This is a singular recognition of what highly motivated and talented students can do with the help of great faculty members," said Dr. Charles M.
Edmondson, Alfred University president.The SUNY Chancellor's Award "honors SUNY students who have received local, state, national or international recognition for excellence.""These students are among the State University's best and brightest," said Chancellor Robert L. King. "Their commitment not only to academic excellence, but also to serving the wider community indicates they are likely to emerge as New York's future leaders. I am enormously proud of these students and very pleased to be able to recognize their accomplishments.The School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science and the School of Art and Design are administered by Alfred University through a contract with SUNY, just as the publicly funded units at Cornell University are administered by Cornell.Bowden, a senior majoring in glass science with minors in photonic materials and business administration, is co-author of six patent applications resulting from his internship with the specialty materials development unit at Corning Incorporated last summer. He evaluated processing methods for making Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography (EUVL) quality Ultralow Expansion (ULE) glass, taking responsibility for development of one process and successful fabrication of ULE glass using the new method.He also completed a co-op assignment in cellular ceramics/specialty materials development at Corning from May-December 2000, during which he co-authored 15 invention disclosures relating to technologies for catalysis substrates, photonic bandgap fibers, space telescope mirrors and micro-lithography components. Bowden, who has a grade point average of 3.92 on a four-point scale, was a research assistant for Dr. Arun Varshneya, professor of glass science at Alfred, for three years, studying the structure of chalcogenide glasses. The work was presented at the 2001 International Congress on Glass in Edinburgh, Scotland, last summer. He is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Keramos, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Omicron and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies, and serves as president of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society. He received the General Electric Excellence in Glass Science Award for having the highest GPA among glass science students at the end of junior year. A finalist for the Outstanding Senior Award at Alfred University, Bowden has been a staff writer for Engineering the Elements, the newsletter of the School of
Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science, and Advances, the newsletter of the Center for Advanced Ceramic
Technology at Alfred University. He is also a member of the Alfred University varsity track and field team, competing in long jump and triple jump. He placed fifth in the long jump in the Indoor New York State Collegiate Track
Conference Championship in 2000, and seventh in the long jump in the state championships in 2001.Alfred University students win SUNY awards 3-3-3Fogelman, a National Merit Scholar, has earned a 3.96 GPA with a dual major in ceramic engineering and computer science, with minors in mathematics, chemistry and general science. He received the Samuel R. Scholes Sr. Award, presented to the ceramic engineering student who has the highest GPA at the end of the freshman year; the Phi Kappa Phi book award for the highest GPA as a sophomore; and the PinPoint
Communications Merit Scholar Award for technical leaders of the future. He is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta, Keramos, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Delta Kappa honor societies.He also received a Margaret Jean Abernathy Memorial Scholarship, presented to engineering students with high academic achievement and community involvement. Fogelman, a member of Alfred University Hillel, works with other Hillel members and the community to plan religious and social activities for Jewish students on campus. He has been involved with Ohav Shalom in Albany for 10 years, delivering ceremonial candles to those who are unable to pick them up from the synagogue.Since 2000, Fogelman has been certified as a substitute teacher for kindergarten -12th grade classrooms by the Capital District Board of Cooperative Educational Services, and he says he has tried to get into the classrooms during every break from his own school. For the past two years, Fogelman has written a humor and an advice column for Fiat Lux, the student newspaper, and has been nominated for an award from the Columbia Scholastic Press Association. He is a publications assistant for both Engineering the Elements, the newsletter of the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science, and Advances, the newsletter of the Center for Advanced Ceramic Technology at Alfred. He has
been an undergraduate research assistant in the composites laboratory at Alfred; did a summer internship with the General Electric Corporate Research and Development Center in Niskayuna, NY, where he designed and implemented a process for automating a ceramic filter used to process silicon carbide composite fibers; and is now involved in the Edison Engineering Development Program at General Electric, which entails a series of three eight-month rotations as a research engineer in the ceramics lab.Gutmann, who is completing an internship at Sandia National Laboratory in Livermore, CA, where she is working in the x-ray lithography group to fabricate sintered ceramic and metallic micromachine components, was unable to attend Wednesday's ceremony in Albany.She received dual degrees from Alfred University, a B.S. degree in materials science and engineering from the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science, where she has earned a GPA of 3.89, and a B.A. in physics from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, where she has earned a 3.94 GPA. She was graduated in December 2001. A National Merit Scholar and an Alfred University Scholar, who completed the requirements of AU's Honors Program, Gutmann received the Natasha Goldowski Renner Prize in Physics and an award for having the highest GPA in her class during her sophomore year.
In addition to her internship at Sandia National Laboratory, Gutmann worked as a summer undergraduate research fellow with the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST); completed at physics research experience, funded by the National Science Foundation, at Lehigh University and was a McMahon Glass Research assistant at Alfred.On top of her academic honors, Gutmann was a stand-out athlete, and holds the women's records in the indoor 3000-meter and 1500-meter runs for the University. She received the Milton A. Tuttle Award, presented annually to a student in the School of Ceramic Engineering and Materials Science who demonstrates both academic and athletic excellence, and was named an Academic All-American by the National Collegiate Athletic Association. While at Alfred University, she was a member of the AU Folk Dance Club and the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship.##