News at Adelphi

LIBN’s spotlight of dynamic young professionals includes Adelphi’s senior assistant director of admissions.

Adelphi University has named J. Christopher Muran, PhD, the new dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology. Dr. Muran will begin his role on August 7.

Summer internships at Adelphi continue to expand and offer our students extraordinary opportunities. This summer, junior Honors College student Edward Jansen earned a federally supported internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory working with emerging AI programming. Learn about his experience working near a nuclear reactor and a particle accelerator at one of Adelphi’s most prestigious STEM partners.

HealthRight International gives human rights award to faculty- and PhD candidate-led effort to assist immigrants fleeing homeland persecution.

The latest research on how sauropod dinosaurs reached their massive sizes, authored by Michael D’Emic, PhD, associate professor of biology, has overturned decades of thinking on the topic. His groundbreaking research has been covered globally and will appear in Scientific American in September.

With a growing number of male nursing students, an inspiring group of male nursing faculty, a trustee who earned his nursing degree at Adelphi and a dedicated support group for male nurses, Adelphi is providing an innovative answer to America’s nursing shortage.

For the past 20 years, a number of staff at the New York City Administration for Children's Services (ACS)—the nation's largest public child welfare program—have chosen to advance their careers by earning their Master in Social Work (MSW) from Adelphi, thanks to Adelphi's flexible scheduling, field placement and internship opportunities.

How do you get to Sesame Street? Design your own major in puppetry and take it to your dream career in Broadway’s Winnie the Pooh, on Sesame Workshop—and even on a Super Bowl commercial featuring Cookie Monster.

More than $100,000 was raised in support of women’s leadership programs.

Kelly Gorman '12, '15, lived her dream nursing job as a critical care flight nurse with Northwell Health's SkyHealth helicopter venture for two years and now she's expanded her dream-job focus to encompass being a mobile stroke unit ambulance nurse.

In a remarkable example of hands-on learning, social work graduate students are working directly with local police as part of their training at Adelphi’s Hudson Valley Center. For both police and students, it has been a win-win experience.

Longtime Adelphi political science faculty member Regina Axelrod, PhD, died on November 3, 2022, with a legacy as an esteemed professor, campus leader, and faculty and student advocate. 

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.

When Jonathan Jackson, PhD, started his role as director of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Center for Psychological Services, he thought it was one of those positions he might grow into—and 36 years later, he thinks he might have done just that.

The Center for Career and Professional Development's Prep for Success Program takes pride in giving students and alumni the skills, guidance and opportunities for on-the-job experience to jumpstart their career planning. A new focus on innovative online programing options makes Prep for Success more accessible than ever.

Recent communications alumna Ana Lyz Rodriguez ’22 created five powerful video profiles of Hispanic students at Adelphi. Watch their stories, and read about her own story as a filmmaker and advocate.

Throughout our 125-year history, many of Adelphi’s women leaders were the only women in the classroom, boardroom or corner office—and had to blaze a trail for the women who followed in their respective fields.

The Adelphi University School of Social Work is proud to partner with CAMBA Inc. as a field placement site.

Adelphi University's School of Social Work doctoral candidate Jennifer Eileen Reddin Cassar has been selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster.

Unique to Adelphi, the Viret Family Faculty Leadership Fellows Program develops aspiring University administrators and leaders. Paris-based donor Lionel Viret ’95 established this innovative program with a $1 million donation. (This year's Fellows, above.)

The results from Adelphi's 2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Outcomes Report are in: Not even a global pandemic can keep Adelphi's award-winning Center for Career and Professional Development career educators from preparing students for lifelong personal and professional success.

Adelphi junior Dhruv Gupta has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program scholarship. A special program of Fulbright Canada, the award provides summer internship opportunities for 50 top-ranked American undergraduate students interested in pursuing advanced research in their academic discipline.

“Social Work Month is a time to celebrate the great profession of social work, the incredible role social workers play in helping people navigate life’s needs and challenges as well as learn about the many contributions made in the profession,” said Schanica Pickens, director of the Master of Social Work program and assistant dean of student affairs.

Featuring two-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman as our keynote speaker, Adelphi's fifth annual Women's Leadership Conference on Saturday, March 26, will empower colleagues and friends to be courageous in their careers and communities. Join us to commemorate “125 Years of Women in Leadership” during our milestone anniversary and celebration of Women's History Month.

In high school, junior Monique Marcelle was very involved in extracurricular activities. Once she chose Adelphi, she knew she wanted to be involved just as she'd been in high school. As a first-year student, she heard about Black Students United (BSU) and went to a meeting.

Since 2013, Adelphi University has prepared students to make a difference in children's lives through sports and physical activity. Students pursuing an MS in Sport Management or MA in Physical Activity Studies have the opportunity to enhance their graduate experience through Adelphi's hands-on Sport-Based Youth Development specialization.

Fall 2021 marked the launch of an exciting new initiative, the Nassau-Adelphi Gateway program. The distinctive partnership provides a best-of-both-worlds choice for Nassau Community College (NCC) students. While earning their associate degrees at NCC, they are able to take advantage of the four-year cocurricular Adelphi experience—living and dining on campus, participating in clubs and recreation, and being part of the Adelphi community outside the classroom—with a streamlined transfer pathway for completing their bachelor's degrees at Adelphi. This August, Adelphi welcomed the first cohort of 27 Nassau-Adelphi Gateway students.

I must admit, being asked 'What's your major?' is one of the most nerve-racking questions thrown at college students, at least for me. The simple question leads to a whirlwind of assumptions and fears for our future careers. I recently got some clarity after writing this article on an inspiring Adelphi alum who is the epitome of someone who hasn't been pigeonholed by her major.

Adelphi’s Innovation Center (IC), located on the first floor of Swirbul Library, launched in February 2020. Its mission is simple: to develop opportunities for applied learning by connecting faculty and students with external business partners to prepare students for today’s competitive job market.