News at Adelphi
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Frances Perkins, the first woman ever to serve in a U.S. presidential cabinet and former professor of sociology at Adelphi, will be highlighted for her service, says Hudson Valley One.
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Bestselling authors Jacqueline Woodson '16 (Hon.) and Alice Hoffman '73, '02 (Hon.) published their latest in a succession of critically acclaimed works. They are joined by Deborah Serani, PsyD, senior adjunct professor in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, whose first work of fiction was also released.
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Carlton Ridenhour '84, '13 (Hon.), better known as rapper, writer and producer Chuck D, has been named the 2019 Woody Guthrie Prize recipient.
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Election Day is next week and early voting is already underway for New York state voters. With the convenience of early voting and Adelphi not holding classes on Election Day, Adelphi students are primed to participate in the voting process.
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Robert B. Willumstad School of Business alumnus opens Curbside Mexican Grill in South Hempstead.
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Monday, October 21, 2019 through Friday, October 25, 2019 was National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week. Every year, Adelphi Crime Prevention Sergeant, Gerard Lennon, conducts an intoxicated driver simulation for our students to help prevent drunk driving.
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On October 25th, 2019, the Public Safety Officers participated in the annual Department Training Day. This is an all day event where the Officers receive training in a variety of carefully selected training topics designed to enhance their ability to better serve the Adelphi community.
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Adelphi's dedication to helping veterans earn their degrees is why we're a Yellow Ribbon school. The Yellow Ribbon Program, which provides additional funds to military and veteran students, has nearly doubled the maximum for those funds so that students this year will receive $4,000, up from $2,500 last year.
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Alumni Charles Fuschillo '83 and Joseph Westphal '70, PhD have been elected to the Adelphi University Board of Trustees.
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For more than 10 years, Adelphi University has participated in National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day, which falls this year on October 26.
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Classes are usually held on campus in classrooms. But for students in Adelphi's First-Year Seminars, they can also take place in the heart of the most diverse neighborhood in the United States.
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All the colors of the world come to life on Adelphi's silver screen during two separate film festivals: the International Immigration Film Festival in late October, and the Foreign Language Fall Film Festival in early November. All screenings are free and open to the public.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the periodic table, Adelphi is going gold as part of National Chemistry Week, says InnovateLI.
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Next month, Adelphi’s annual Women’s Leadership Conference will provide hands-on leadership training and professional development, says Long Island Business News.
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Zachary Johnson, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing, talks about the pros and cons of layaway in U.S. News & World Report.
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After two successful years, Adelphi's Women's Leadership Conference is returning for a third time.
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Margaret Klein Salamon, PhD ’14, shares her experience about coping with climate change anxiety in Grist.
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Ronald Sentwali Bakari, PhD, has been appointed as its new vice president for student affairs and dean of students. Dr. Bakari is currently vice chancellor for student success at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS).
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Two professors find new ways of engaging students. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in the science of education, the college classroom is at the center of a pedagogical revolution.
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Adelphi graduate student Jennifer Hindieh and her husband share their love story with The New York Times.
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The 17 high school students who participated in the Hispanic Community Partnership Program, Adelphi's first college-readiness initiative aimed at Hispanic students, came away with a better understanding of college life and the importance of pursuing higher education.
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Dr. Weida's research examines the intersections between textiles and feminism in many art movements.
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Through years of detective work with faculty from several different departments at Adelphi, Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD and his team were able to determine why the woman was buried in such an unusual manner. In the process, they challenged long-held beliefs about the role of women in ancient Greece.
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The United States insisted the Taliban hand bin Laden over if they wanted to gain diplomatic recognition—a moment, Jonathan Cristol, PhD, argues, that represented another consequential fork in the road.
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Kirsten Ziomek, Ph.D., is co-director of Adelphi's Asian Studies program and the author of Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (2019). She is currently working on her second book about World War II and Japan's colonial peoples.
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As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia is growing rapidly, along with the need for improvements in care for them. Adelphi faculty members are studying ways to give a better quality of life to patients with dementia and ease the emotional burdens of family caregivers. Here are ways that three Adelphi professors are doing that.
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Alexander Heyl, PhD, is researching the evolution and functioning of signaling pathways, particularly in the origin of a class of plant hormones called cytokinins. He holds a PhD from the University of Cologne, Germany.
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Brian Stockman, PhD, associate professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and his five collaborating students—Samantha Muellers, Juliana Gonzalez, Abinash Kaur, Vital Sapojnikov and Annie Laurie Benziehas—identified an innovative approach to curing a drug-resistant parasite.
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Korede K. Yusuf, MBBS, PhD, assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, has dedicated her career to changing these statistics. She aims to find solutions that address maternal and child health inequalities—and save lives.
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A. Hasan Sapci, MD, evaluated and documented the relationship between training methods and the confidence necessary to use new technologies among undergraduate nursing students in a recent study.