News at Adelphi
- College of Arts & Sciences
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This year’s Research Day on April 17 was Adelphi’s biggest yet—it grows every year. Learn what was new at our 16th annual event, and meet some of the students who presented their research.
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Video of Fabian Morgan proposing to graduate Krystal Richards on Commencement day 2019 as she walked across the stage to receive her diploma has gone viral on the internet and been covered by several news outlets.
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Indigenous peoples often appear as caricatures in official histories and popular narratives of Japan’s 20th-century empire. A new book by assistant professor of history Kirsten Ziomek, PhD, paints a fuller picture of cultures that have long been marginalized.
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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.
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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.
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This year marks the bicentennial birthday of renowned American poet Walt Whitman. In celebration of Whitman's life and creative works, a group of Adelphi University music, theater and visual arts students will perform and display their artwork during the Walt Whitman Bicentennial Birthday Weekend event on Sunday, June 2, from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
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Carolina Medina '18 has followed a path that has taken her from Adelphi, where she created her own major combining sustainability development and nonprofit management to a semester studying abroad in Australia. Next up? She's heading to Costa Rica on a Fulbright scholarship.
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Every year Adelphi honors exceptional employees and faculty members. “Our honorees are Adelphi employees who shine for a number of reasons," said President Christine M. Riordan at the awards ceremony on May 7. “You set extraordinary standards for serving the Adelphi community. We admire and thank you."
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An introductory scientific computing course that started out in 2015 as a weekly high school after-school program, developed by the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory, is now part of the curriculum for a new scientific computing minor offered at Adelphi University.
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Adelphi University will conduct its 123rd Commencement ceremonies beginning at 10 a.m. on Sunday, May 19, at NYCB Live: Home of the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. About 1,950 students will receive their bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.
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At Adelphi, students reap the benefits of personalized attention from their professors and all the opportunities nearby New York City holds. But according to Peter West, Ph.D.—the newly appointed associate provost for student success—there's always room to do better.
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The old adage “waste not, want not" works well as a precept for resourcefulness, but a pair of Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) are taking it a step further. When they see waste, it makes them want to salvage and redirect.
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The National Science Foundation has awarded Adelphi University a $1.2 million grant to to support The New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline: Preparing Next Gen Science Teachers at Adelphi University. This program aims to recruit, support and prepare 24 science teachers, including those from typically underrepresented groups, to take science teaching positions in high-needs school districts.
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Archaeologist and anthropology professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, Ph.D., along with students, is investigating an ancient man with a strange hole in his chest, says Newsweek.
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For over a decade, the First Year Experience Committee has been acknowledging first-year students who exhibit academic excellence, community and campus involvement, and strength in leadership. This year, they selected first-year student Anastasia Dakis.
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Skeletal remains of an ancient Greek male studied by archaeologist and anthropology professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, Ph.D., reveals evidence of execution, says Forbes.
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The summer of 2018 I had the pleasure to work alongside Make the Road NY and take part in the detention defense project helping immigrant families across the state.
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As a young woman from a small town in Connecticut, Sarah Cinquemani knew that she did not wish to attend a large university, such as UConn. She wanted to attend a smaller institution that provided access to her professors.
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Theatre Professor Maggie Lally’s work as director of a Jonathan Larson ’82 project is mentioned in Playbill article about the development of an album featuring Larson's lesser-known works.
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Pi Sigma Alpha is the national Political Science Honor Society, with over 700 chapters at the most leading colleges and universities in the United States.
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The Department of Political Science awards seniors for their hard work and dedication.
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My first year at Adelphi University was perhaps my most eventful year to date. As a small town girl from Texas, the idea of moving near a world-renowned, gigantic city like New York completely terrified me.
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This month, representatives of Bridges to Adelphi will be going around campus to educate others about the program as well as sponsoring events that draw attention and awareness of neurodiversity.
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Spring break is a time to get away from campus, but, at least for some student scholars at Adelphi, it's not necessarily a time to get away from their studies.
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Igor Webb, Ph.D.
CategoriesPublished:Igor Webb, Ph.D., director of creative writing at Adelphi, is a poet and author of short stories, essays and novels.
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Jacqueline Jones LaMon
CategoriesPublished:Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two poetry collections and the novel In the Arms of One Who Loves Me.
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Katherine Hill
CategoriesPublished:Katherine Hill is the author of the novel The Violet Hour (Scribner, 2013).
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Martha Cooley
CategoriesPublished:Martha Cooley is a professor is the winner of an O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction (2017)
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Judith Baumel
CategoriesPublished:Judith Baumel, founding director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi, is a poet, critic and translator.
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Eric Priest attended the Washington Center from January 24 to May 4, 2018 and interned with Representative Adam Kinzinger’s congressional office.