News at Adelphi

English major Brienna (Ennie) Conner is exploring the historical significance of the “Tar Baby” story to uncover the lived experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants in early America.

Heather Gittelson, a cognitive neuroscience major, investigates whether taking the perspective of future generations can motivate people to take climate action today.

At Adelphi, research is highly valued for undergrads as well as graduate students. This summer, six undergraduates are making new discoveries—inside and out of the lab.

Meet two students who dived into research and successfully presented on their topics: Chinese “comfort women” of World War II and the depiction of the melancholy Portuguese “saudade” in Spanish literature.

Under the guidance of Kevin Liang, PhD, assistant professor of physics, six computer science majors developed a device and a business plan to “do good while making a profit.”

The 54th annual festival showcased 16 films of various genres, all directed by Adelphi undergraduate students.

A study involving Adelphi anthropology faculty members has helped tell the life story of a female woolly mammoth who died 14,000 years ago. Their research is shedding light on the intertwined lives of humans and mammoths as the mammoths became extinct after the last Ice Age.

There are so many ways to dance, and a vast diversity of genres, techniques, styles and interpretations.

When a student comes to Adelphi University to study computer science, the curriculum is not one-size-fits-all.

If you ask Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo, PhD, professor in the Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH), what makes him passionate about research, he will tell you it’s something that has always been within him.

One might say that with more than 15 years of research experience—and her inquiries while studying at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor before that—Katherine Fiori, PhD, professor and associate dean in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, is something of an expert at turning an idea into scholarship.

Adelphi University School of Education Assistant Professor Suraj Uttamchandani, PhD, and Associate Professor Matthew Curinga, EdD, and John Drew, associate professor of communications, have received funding from the Mozilla Foundation to redesign two courses in responsible computing.

The junior majoring in international relations is using her research and outreach skills to make a difference for her native country.

On March 1, future entrepreneurs from the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business got valuable real-world experience in what it would take to launch their own businesses when they competed in the University’s annual Shark Tank-style Business Plan Competition.

Adelphi University's Meredith Whitley, PhD, professor of health and sport sciences and research fellow at the Centre for Sport Leadership and Stellenbosch University, was a collaborator in the study.

Patterns are all around us—in mathematics, in nature, in music and in art.

Even before she learned to multiply and divide, Nara Yoon, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, was flexing her mathematical skills by playing Omok (five-in-a-row), Chinese chess and 15 puzzles.

Climate change is a topic that surfaces each time there is news of the latest flood, forest fire, tornado or temperature extreme.

Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, PhD, professor of chemistry, will serve as the next director of the University’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works.

The Misery Index was introduced in the 1970s as a crude measure of economic adversity, adding together the otherwise incommensurable inflation and unemployment rates.

Master of Science in Business Analytics students put their skills into practice by teaming up with tech enterprise Netrality Data Centers.

Melina Giakoumis '11, PhD, a conservation biologist, science communicator and mother who advocates for women in STEM, is building an app for citizen scientists to help track—and protect—declining Asterias sea stars.

Student-faculty team examines the foundational assumptions of carcinogenesis modeling.

A student-led photovoice project empowers people in treatment to share their experiences and build community ties.

An international collaboration leads to the development of eco-friendly solar technologies

A new theoretical framework outlines best practices school psychologists can use to help LGBTQ+ youth prepare for college

For Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, professor in Adelphi's history department, archaeology is an endlessly generative practice.

New discoveries connect Indigenous Alaskans to their ancestors

A grant-funded study investigates the cognitive processes that allow us to form healthy social bonds and resist maladaptive behaviors

Different subsets of the transgender population have different rates of marijuana use when medically transitioning, new research finds