News at Adelphi

Thanks to this esteemed educator, director and mentor, this series coming in Spring 2025 will explore the latest topics, practices and career options in clinical psychology.

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.

The “bible of school psychology” has a new lead editor: Professor Lea Theodore, PhD, whose work is helping to guide practitioners in this evolving field.

Christopher Lyndon-Gee’s new album is his third featuring the music of the exiled 86-year-old composer. 

A biologist and a psychologist give us the facts about the spider and arachnophobia.

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.

Watch Adelphi’s president, provost, board of trustees chair, and faculty and student leaders share words of encouragement, new perspectives and compelling life stories. Their messages highlighted a day to remember.

Technology leader Deborah Zawisza ’80 enjoyed being back on campus and bringing real-world expertise into the classroom.

Four Adelphi University professors have been awarded SUNY Teacher Workforce Investment Grants totaling $1,244,035 to support a project focused on targeting and retaining diverse teaching professionals.

In their annual ceremony, the University recognized those committed to pursuing excellence at Adelphi.

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.

A First-Year Seminar collaboration connected astrophysics with creative writing.

Public health experts Harlem Gunness, PhD; Deborah Stamps, EdD; and CNPH Clinical Associate Professor K.C. Rondello, MD, lectured on timely subjects during CNPH’s Public Health Week events.

During the past two years, College of Nursing and Public Health Dean Deborah Hunt, PhD ’12, has been laser focused on the international collaboration with Professor Mohammad Yunus’ Grameen Caledonian College of Nursing in Bangladesh. 

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.

According to nurse.org, 80 percent of nurses say their patient care units are inadequately staffed, and almost 90 percent felt burned out in the past year. America’s nursing shortage is in need of a new solution, which inspired Professor Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo, PhD, to find one. Read what he and other nurse educators recommend to support the nursing workforce by increasing the number of nurse educators.

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.

René Steinke joined Adelphi University in January 2024 as the new director of the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Creative Writing program in the College of Arts and Sciences.