News at Adelphi

Examining factors precipitating substance abuse, from America's rural to urban communities.

Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Adelphi faculty hosted a teach-in to help students make sense of the conflict.

Probing the correlation between a company's political ideology and its loan terms

Adelphi professor's ethical framework offers a new way of thinking about culpability and provocation.

Assistant Professor Natalia Prado-Oviedo, PhD, is studying the genomes of elephants in U.S. zoos to increase the odds of survival for this endangered species.

Latinx street art illuminates the immigrant experience and history of labor in Texas, countering societal erasures.

Adelphi faculty explore a century of American immigration through art, music and film.

The fraught relationship between Central American immigrant mothers and their reunified children.

A new approach to cost-benefit analysis helps corporations reduce their carbon emissions.

One painter finds beauty—and despair— in our world's changing landscape.

Adelphi scientists work to restore biodiversity to local coastlines.

MS student Samuel Sey spent the summer conducting research as one of Adelphi’s competitive Jaggar Community Fellows. Unique to Adelphi, Jaggar internships advance student careers with paid internships while supporting important nonprofit missions.

Jacqueline Olvera, PhD, director of Latin American and Latinx Studies and associate professor of sociology, and students spent an eye-opening summer with the hardworking, entrepreneurial women who sell tamals on street corners.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded Adelphi University and Principal Investigator Andrea Ward, PhD, associate provost for research and special projects, a $2.49 million grant for the “Ensuring STEM Student Success Through an Integrative Support Program.”

Senior Honors College student MacKenzie Pina joined a prestigious dig at Sibiloi National Park in Kenya over the summer. Her experience there is an example of Adelphi's emphasis on undergraduate research. "I could not have been better introduced to fieldwork if I had asked," she said.

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.

Thanks to a grant from the Spencer Foundation, two faculty members from the Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences will use technology to study the emotional atmosphere of school buildings.

“Farm-to-table” has been a popular movement for years, with restaurants adopting the label and creating menus boasting an abundance of fresh, local ingredients. Yet even as the public dines on this thoughtfully prepared food, many do not consider one critical link in the food chain between the farm and the table: the farmworker.

Associate professor and chair of the Department of Dance Orion Duckstein’s idea for choreographing a piece about his grandmother’s life emerged at an unexpected moment.

Elizabeth Palley, JD, PhD, professor of social work and director of Adelphi’s social work doctoral program, is on a mission to bring American child care policy into the 21st century.

Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus —were the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study provides insights into how these supergiants achieved their record-breaking sizes over time. “It was previously thought that sauropods evolved their exceptional sizes independently a few times in…

Philosophy may be seen as an area of academic speculation, but Shawn Kaplan, PhD, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics and Public Policy program, researches how moral concerns affect current real-world issues.

Adelphi’s annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference, better known as Research Day, celebrated its 20th anniversary with undergraduates and graduate students presenting their work in each of our Core Four areas of focus: arts and humanities, STEM and social sciences, health and wellness, and the business and education professions.

Zahin Ritee is a physics scholar, a leader, a high achiever—and an award-winning singer. Now she's been named a Barry Goldwater Scholar for excellence in STEM.

Ryan Wallace, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, has received a federal grant to tackle the threats acidification and harmful algal blooms pose to Long Island Sound ecosystems and organisms.

When Shana Caro, PhD, joined the Adelphi faculty in Fall 2022 as an assistant professor of biology, she had a pressing priority. “I wanted to locate a place where I could do fieldwork that was close to campus so that I could easily bring students from campus to help with my research.”

Good things come to those who wait, the saying goes, but our perception of how quickly time passes varies from person to person. Are people who perceive time as passing quickly more willing to delay gratification?

Over the past two decades, devices that make use of artificial intelligence (AI) have infiltrated our existence.

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.