News at Adelphi
- Robert B. Willumstad School of Business
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Adelphi University excels in several 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings including Best College, Social Mobility, Best Value, First-Year Experiences and Undergraduate Nursing.
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Whether they're caring for patients, working in underserved communities, solving computational problems, launching new businesses or teaching overseas, Adelphi's students are supported by those who came before them.
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Adelphi University has been ranked a 2024 Best College in the United States by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)/College Pulse.
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The STEM-designated MS in Business Analytics program at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business creates female leaders in the growing data industry—giving them an edge in leadership and strong business careers. This program is now being honored by INSIGHT Into Diversity for building equity for women who are still underrepresented in tech fields.
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In the spring of 2023, Adelphi welcomed five new trustees to its board, three of whom are alumni of the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.
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Rachel McDermott '05 is taking care of business as a stuntwoman, actress, producer and new mom. Catch her in Extraction 2 on Netflix.
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LIBN’s spotlight of dynamic young professionals includes Adelphi’s senior assistant director of admissions.
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The identical twins run almost identical times while setting track records for the Panthers.
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Adelphi’s Class of 2023 celebrated their accomplishments with family and friends at the University’s 127th Commencement ceremony on May 23 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.
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The Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business has introduced a hybrid accelerated option for its Professional Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program.
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What began in January 2023 as a visit by the Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health Dean Deborah Hunt, PhD ’12, to Mohammad Yunus in Bangladesh has since led to a lecture by the Nobel Prize laureate on March 21 on the Adelphi campus—and now to a nursing school partnership agreement.
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MaryAnne Hyland, PhD, dean of the Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, has been named a Premier Business Woman of Long Island by Herald Community Newspapers and RichnerLIVE. The annual award recognizes women for excellence in various fields.
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After years of work dedicated to fostering understanding between people of different cultural backgrounds and increasing awareness of the horrors of the Holocaust, David Machlis, PhD, associate professor of finance and economics in the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, has been named a recipient of the 2023 Long Island Business News Diversity in Business Award. In…
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When patients are given the diagnosis no one ever wants to hear—that they have cancer—the first questions most will ask are about their prognosis.
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Robert B. Willumstad School of Business alum Jared Mroz ’22 earned his master‘s in business analytics—while working in a leadership position at financial powerhouse Morgan Stanley. See how he managed this dual path.
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Christopher Storm, PhD, provost and executive vice president, has announced the honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker for Adelphi’s 2023 Commencement ceremony: entrepreneur and humanitarian Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani. A leader in the food manufacturing industry, Ulukaya built Chobani on the foundation that it would do well by doing good. He was raised in a dairy-farming…
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First-year students Monish Churaman and Amita Radakichenane’s innovative business idea, SmileLab Printing Technologies, won first place ($5,000) in the latest Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Business Plan Competition. All told, the finalists competed for $11,000 in prize money. Their winning idea “eliminates the need for crowns, bridges and dentures being produced in labs…
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Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Honored by The Princeton Review The Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business has once again been recognized in The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools 2023 for its on-campus MBA program. This is based on institutional data the company gathers from administrators at business schools as well as surveys of students attending…
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Bharat Bhisé, MBA ’78, believes Adelphi students should have global exposure to other countries, cultures and economies—and he funded an all-expenses-paid study tour to India to prove it. Meet the students who benefited from this extraordinary inaugural trip.
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Supporting a Uniquely Inclusive Community
CategoriesPublished:With a generous gift of $25,000, Deborah Viola ’84, PhD, established the endowed Daniel Viola Family Scholarship for Neurodiversity.
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Recent Adelphi field hockey graduate Jackie Brown ‘21, MBA ‘22, was recognized as an NCAA Woman of the Year Top 30 Nominee at the 2023 national NCAA Convention in San Antonio, Texas, on January 12, 2023. She is the third Adelphi student-athlete to make the Top 30, following Alison Johnson ‘20, MA ‘21, and Chelsea Abreu ‘19, MBA ‘21.
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The next event in the Great Minds, Great Conversations series—"Sprinting Toward Success With Two Legendary Adelphi Olympians"—will feature Olympians and Adelphi track alumni June Griffith Collison '81, MBA '84, and Dennis Collison '80.
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For David Machlis, PhD, an associate professor of finance and economics at the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business and inaugural recipient of Adelphi President's Humanitarian Award, “fighting hatred is a team game and can't be done alone." As a national leader in this fight, he is piloting an exciting new program that will bring Adelphi's Black and Jewish students together to make a difference in the world.
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When It Comes to Corporate (and Individual) Social Responsibility, Adelphi Means Business
CategoriesPublished:Benjamin Franklin espoused the idea that one can be financially successful while making the world a better place, an idea now known as the oft-quoted “doing well by doing good." Embracing ethical practices has been intrinsic to the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business since its founding as the School of Business Administration in 1964, both for business and personal actions. In recent decades, that ethos has evolved toward a more structured approach to teaching corporate social responsibility.
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Willumstad School of Business (WSB) students might be surprised to learn that among those giving them a winning edge both academically and in the job market is an impressive team of highly accomplished professionals working behind the scenes as advocates, allies and partners.
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It's been another great year of academic achievement and recognition at Adelphi.