News at Adelphi

This academic year, Adelphi University received four grants totaling nearly $1.7 million for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)-related projects. Three grants were awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the fourth grant was awarded from the American Chemical Society.

Can women entrepreneurs succeed in male-dominated, conservative countries? Research by Murat Erogul, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, shows they can—as long as they practice what he calls “strategic disobedience.”

Lauren Gonzales, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, combines various methods of research to better understand the factors that can prevent persons with mental illnesses from integrating successfully into their communities.

Damian Stanley, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, has developed a test that may lead to the identification of subcategories of autism and the development of new interventions and/or treatments.

I had to step beyond the obvious and do more, says Matthew J. Wright, who offers advice for other scholars seeking funding.

The Adelphi University's International Leadership Coordinating Committee was pleased to award the 2019 International Research Awards during the 16th Annual Adelphi Research Conference.

Margaret Gray, associate professor of political science, is quoted by the New York Times about indoor greenhouse farm labor conditions.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Fareri was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), an honor given to a handful of outstanding psychological scientists in the early stages of their postgraduate research careers around the world.

A study by Professor Geoffrey Ream Ph.D. on suicide rates in LGBTQ youth is featured by many media outlets including Reuters and Huffington Post.

Scientists from around the world travel to the famous CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to probe the fundamental structure of the universe using the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on earth—the Large Hadron Collider. Last summer, they were joined by an Adelphi senior, Muhammad Aziz, a physics major who spent six weeks as part of a longer 10-week internship with the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

Born in a small town in Brazil and spending his teenage years in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood controlled by a drug cartel, Walace Kierulf-Vieira grew up a world away from Adelphi.

Dirt covered the hands of Queens, New York, native Julio RuizDiaz last summer as he excavated artifacts in the Alaskan wilderness.

Born in Vietnam and moving to the United States at age 8, Lani Chau was determined to use art and science for the greater good through the field of renewable energy. That journey started with experiences in physics, chemistry and the arts at Adelphi.

Biology professor James K. Dooley, Ph.D., is passionate about protecting endangered marine life and creating a better future for our planet. Throughout his 45 years at Adelphi, he has been recognized nationally, internationally and locally for his work in environmental preservation.

Korede Adegoke, Ph.D., began her professional career as a physician in her home country of Nigeria, committed to the treatment of pregnant women and their children. Dismayed by the preventable deaths she witnessed almost daily, she eventually came to the conclusion that the best way to help improve health among vulnerable populations would be to go into public health research and teaching.

How can women who face gender-based violence create conditions of safety and well-being in their lives? That is the question that animates the research efforts of Stavroula Kyriakakis, Ph.D., associate professor in the Adelphi University School of Social Work.

Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D., a professor at Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and a recognized authority on leadership, spent six months studying global and diverse leadership as the 2018 Fulbright Scholar as Distinguished Chair at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Renewable energy technologies bring the promise of a better life to rural villages in developing countries, but establishing those technologies in the lives of underserved populations is not a simple task. According to Gita Surie, Ph.D., it requires the development of a new innovation ecosystem composed of complex networks.

Yun Jung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Adelphi built a new conceptual framework for mobile interactivity (m-interactivity) to help us better understand how shopping via smartphone leads to business success.

She was sexually abused as a child. Now, she dedicates her life to helping other survivors break the silence.

“It's thinking about how science can be taught using simpler English and shorter sentences. "

The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement— reflecting Adelphi's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for Adelphi nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. “As soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. “It's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

“The opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi. “Nurses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.

Graduate school is all about small classes and close working relationships between students and faculty members. Adam P. Natoli, M.S., a Ph.D. candidate in his fourth year at Adelphi's Derner School of Psychology, is another student who is benefiting from collaborative work with a faculty mentor.

Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."

At Adelphi, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.