News at Adelphi

At the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education's 37th annual Finkelstein Lecture in the Adelphi Performing Arts Center on October 17, 2018, Matt Jacobs, Nassau County regional staff director for the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), expressed optimism about the future of unions despite the Supreme Court's controversial Mark Janus vs. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) decision.

A United Nations official and four keynote speakers are now booked for the 2019 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) International Conference on the Adelphi campus.

"The idea is to help them think of themselves as citizens and to recognize that what they'll learn at Adelphi connects to the world beyond campus."

On Wednesday, November 14, 2018, the College Republicans and College Democrats held a well-attended debate on campus. They discussed the contentious issue of immigration.

At Adelphi, business students don't just read about marketing strategies and business plans. They create them by working with companies like GEICO, United Parcel Service of America, Inc., and 1-800-Flowers.com. Soon, students will have even more opportunities to work with companies on the next big idea when Adelphi's planned Innovation Center, a 2,000-square-foot research lab in Swirbul Library, is completed in September 2019.

On October 17, 2018, Cholena Smith, Shinnecock scholar and educator, brought her people's culture, history and traditions to Adelphi in honor of Native American Heritage Month in November and Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 8.

Seniors Laura Rojas and Kimberly Campuzano spent this summer doing research in New Mexico and Colorado, respectively. On October 3, they gave presentations summarizing their experience and research to their audience in Blodgett Hall.

Several noteworthy postgraduate workshops are planned for the coming weeks and months as the School of Social Work continues its commitment to providing excellence in professional development and continuing education.

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

Lectures by associate professor of finance and economics David P. Machlis, Ph.D., aren't one-sided talks. They're enthusiastic performances, filled with engaging give-and-take and interactive storytelling that encourage critical thinking.

Each year, students in Dr. Susan Zori's "Nursing Care of the Older Adult" class work in small groups to develop inventive products that could improve the lives of the elderly and address unmet needs.

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.

According to Zainab Toteh Osakwe, Ph.D., assistant professor in Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health, the use of post-acute care services has increased dramatically over the past two decades for patients recently discharged from a hospital.

Fresh water and clean air are the most basic human needs. But according to Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi, both are becoming scarcer around the world, even in highly developed countries.

A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

Studying best practices in education has taken Devin Thornburg, Ph.D., professor of education at Adelphi, all over the globe.

Brian Wygal, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology at Adelphi, believes that light can be shed on the colonization of Alaska by prehistoric people through the study of microblades.

Stop by the second floor of Blodgett Hall and you'll see a display of art guaranteed to push your emotional buttons.

Dominic Paolo first visited Adelphi last spring when he came to campus as a player for the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) baseball team for a game against the Panthers.

Adelphi math professor crunches numbers to catch cancer at its onset.

How do individuals grasp their identity when they're forced to leave home during a time of war?

After hearing about the closing of Dowling College in the fall of 2016, David Ranzan, Adelphi University archivist, was concerned that the institution's archives would be disposed.

Adelphi will be hosting the AIESEP conference June 19-22, 2019, and Dr. Emilia Zarco, M.D., expects approximately 400 attendees.

Adelphi is helping faculty members from nearby colleges improve their skills by hosting the Mobile Summer Institute, a series of workshops devoted to evidence-based student-centered teaching.

Social workers, therapists, counselors, and others learned how to administer CBT during the School of Social Work's annual Summer Institute.

Success in Adelphi's graduate nursing programs requires sophisticated academic abilities.

With a growing number of students interested in distance learning, Adelphi is not only expanding its online programs and courses—it is looking for ways its libraries can meet students' research needs.

There's an art to teaching science. That's the idea behind the Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) program.

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