News at Adelphi

Deborah Serani, PsyD, senior adjunct professor of psychology, is featured in Healthline on millennials and health.

Sports medicine expert Greg McCue ’12 is treating elite and everyday athletes with acupuncture, says FOX21Delmarva.

Adelphi University's New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline: Preparing Next-Gen Science Teachers has been recognized by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine's 2019 Inspiring Programs in STEM Award.

Xiao-lei Wang, PhD, the new dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences, comes to Adelphi from the Pace University School of Education, where she was a professor and acting dean.

Alora Hague, a sophomore at New Hyde Park Memorial High School, loves to write poetry and fiction and wants to be a published writer. To perfect her craft, she joined more than a dozen other high school students who came to Adelphi this summer for the annual Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat.

The Department of Health and Sport Sciences (HSS) has gone all out with a jam-packed schedule of sessions and presentations for the International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) Conference, to be held June 19–June 22, 2019, on Adelphi's Garden City campus.

This academic year, Adelphi University received four grants totaling nearly $1.7 million for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)-related projects. Three grants were awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the fourth grant was awarded from the American Chemical Society.

At Adelphi, students reap the benefits of personalized attention from their professors and all the opportunities nearby New York City holds. But according to Peter West, Ph.D.—the newly appointed associate provost for student success—there's always room to do better.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Adelphi University a $1.2 million grant to to support The New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline: Preparing Next Gen Science Teachers at Adelphi University. This program aims to recruit, support and prepare 24 science teachers, including those from typically underrepresented groups, to take science teaching positions in high-needs school districts.

Patients of all ages come from surrounding communities for low-cost treatment of hearing, speech and language issues at Adelphi’s Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders.

Adelphi University's College of Education and Health Sciences (CEHS) organized a panel discussion, “Give Life America: Organ Donor Awareness," at the Ruth S. Harley University Center. The panelists--an organ transplant recipient and another on a wait list, two donor moms and an organ procurement organization representative--had their own personal stories to tell.

More than 300 high school juniors and seniors from 20-plus Nassau County school districts attended eight timely workshops during the Human Rights Awareness Day (HRAD) student conference at Adelphi on January 31, at the Ruth S. Harley University Center.

“Everyone has a story and every story matters," said Diana Muxworthy Feige, Ed.D., clinical associate professor with the College of Education and Health Sciences' Ruth S. Ammon School of Education.

After Kenn Apel, Ph.D., professor and director of the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, spoke about "Incorporating Evidence-Based Practice into Instruction," attendees came away with ideas and approaches they'll use in their own classrooms and workplaces.

What challenges are Pre-K programs facing? How can teachers provide balanced curricula to our youngest learners? On April 5, 140 educators filled the Performing Arts Center to answer these questions and discuss the future of early education as part of the Evidence-Based Practice in Pre-K Conference.

This month, representatives of Bridges to Adelphi will be going around campus to educate others about the program as well as sponsoring events that draw attention and awareness of neurodiversity.

Spring break is a time to get away from campus, but, at least for some student scholars at Adelphi, it's not necessarily a time to get away from their studies.

Faculty and students in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences have been keeping busy during the spring semester. In just the past two weeks, they have shared their expertise with high school students, run community service projects to improve the health of our neighbors and helped Adelphi students acquire internships.

Marissa Guerrero, a master's student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is applying what she learned in Adelphi's simulation lab to her externship in Manhattan.

In January 2019, fifteen students and two clinical faculty members of the Long Island Doctor of Audiology Consortium joined the Starkey Hearing Foundation (SHF) as part of their Global-Based Hearing Health Care program, “So the World May Hear,” and traveled to Peru, South America to provide free hearing healthcare and services to underserved communities.

The big impact of "small" teaching. Neurological research is producing new insights into the way the brain processes information. The findings are leading to new teaching techniques that improve learning—techniques that were the subject of the "Small Teaching" session.

During the Fall 2018 semester, students in need of a little love and puppy therapy could find it in the Harvey Hall office of Daryl Gordon, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Education and Health Sciences, in the form of an 18-month-old black Labrador named Harpo.

High school students from across Long Island attended the Human Rights Awareness Conference at Adelphi on Thursday, January 31. The goal of the 33rd annual conference was to promote human decency, respect and sensitivity for people of all races, religions, cultures, ages and genders.

Jackie Jahelka '18 and Anne Mungai, Ph.D., interim dean of the College of Education and Health Sciences, spoke to CBS2 about the College's efforts to remedy Long Island's substitute teacher shortage.

Newsday featured Adelphi graduates and the College of Education and Health Sciences' residency partnership with the Mineola, New York, school district.