News at Adelphi

Each spring, the Adelphi community comes together to celebrate student scholarship and creativity during the annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.

Bernadine Waller, MA '10, wears many hats at Adelphi. She is the associate director of experiential learning in the Center for Career and Professional Development and an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work, where she is also pursuing her PhD with the goal of using research to improve lives.

This op-ed appeared in the February 1 issue of the publication Academic Leader and is used here with permission. As a physicist, I spend time thinking about different ways to measure things. As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s one-year mark, we should take an opportunity to reflect on the progress, successes and failures of the…

As society inches toward greater equality for women and sexual minorities, psychologists continue to report links between prejudices against these groups and religion.

Pharmaceuticals save human and animal lives, but when they end up in our waterways, they present a dangerous form of pollution.

More than 252 million of the world's entrepreneurs are women, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's (GEM) 2018/2019 Women's Entrepreneurship Report. Perhaps inspired by these women who have taken on the business world, an average of almost 18 percent of women globally said they too aspired to start a new business within the next three years.

Who is better prepared for success in college: first-generation students, meaning the first in their families to pursue higher education, or non-first-generation students, those whose parents and perhaps earlier generations in the family attended college?

When GM, the auto manufacturer, is planning the next quarter's production of its Sierra Denali pickup, it needs to be able to accurately predict the timely delivery of parts and components—from its other units and external suppliers. The company does this by using a computer simulation or a model which tries to mimic the real world. In reality, managers often don't have accurate or complete data to build the model. Eunji Lim, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences, has addressed this problem by developing an algorithm that takes care of the problem of insufficient data.

Nearly 250 million people in India do not have access to electricity. Creating the infrastructure to connect them to the power grid is a costly and challenging project. Gita Surie, PhD, professor of management, has been studying how an ecosystem for providing renewable energy for the world’s poorest people living in rural areas can be created that will both safeguard the environment and improve social and economic conditions in India.

Annually, worldwide, 1.3 million tons of garbage go into landfills. Reducing such waste is one reason behind the growth of “alternative giving,” where people share and exchange products instead of throwing them away. Fan Liu, PhD, assistant professor of marketing, and Zachary Johnson, PhD, associate professor of marketing, studied this growing practice and found that it, enabled by social media and networks, benefits the broader society.

Climate change has been identified in many quarters as the existential crisis facing all of mankind. It has been estimated that the world needs to spend between $1.6 trillion and $3.8 trillion every year to honor the commitments of the Paris climate agreement. Robert Goldberg, clinical associate professor of finance, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor of economics and department chair, have proposed that a fund be set up by the government to pay for the costs associated with carrying out the changes needed to halt global warming.

Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.

Melissa Randazzo, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, is taking her expertise to Uganda to train educators and therapists there.

In 2016, two Adelphi University anthropology faculty members, working in Alaska with student collaborators, found a virtually complete, 14,000-year-old tusk of what may have been one of the last woolly mammoths on the Alaska mainland. At the time, it was thought to offer clues as to why the mammal later went extinct.

Since childhood, Courtney Lee Weida, EdD, associate professor and director of graduate art education in Adelphi’s Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, has found the princess archetype “both captivating and problematic.” Dr. Weida partnered with her sister, Jaime Chris Weida, PhD, assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of…

One artist captures nature in a time of climate change.

New research reveals the impact of leadership on new product development.

Demystifying blockchain, Bitcoin and other digital money matters

An Adelphi novelist and the creation of a new genre: “collective criticism"

A well-known scholar of issues in East Asian politics and international relations, Vincent Wang, PhD, dean of Adelphi's College of Arts and Sciences, continues to be a highly sought-out speaker and presenter.

The 2016 presidential election had a powerful effect on many therapy patients: They were upset, and they wanted to talk about it.