News at Adelphi

Amanda Nagler, Ayesha Nashurdeen and Iman Salam are are pursuing double master's degrees and engaging in research collaborations.

“I am grateful to Adelphi that their teachers taught me to seek happiness in my profession—not by telling me that verbally, but by showing that excitement through their actions."

Adelphi offers personal attention from faculty members with international reputations. From Fulbright awardees to Pulitzer Prize winners, there are world-class scholars across the University.

Nicole Bennett knows a little something about looking beyond your traditional classroom education.

The co-editors and contributors to Written in Her Own Voice: Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education hope their book will help strengthen black women educators while changing attitudes among white male colleagues and supervisors.

As part of the Long Island Au.D. Consortium, several first and second year Audiology students provided free hearing screenings to students from the Hempstead school district.

Daryl Gordon, Ph.D., Ammon School associate dean, presented on TESOL topics to an international audience at the 14th annual CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching in Cambodia.

The 300-plus area high school students who attended the Human Rights Awareness Day Conference on Adelphi’s Garden City campus left with useful information about the various forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, mental health and immigration.

Devin Thornburg, Ph.D., Ammon School professor, visited schools in seven countries last fall, with seven more due this spring--to research practical, workable education models from which to learn and benefit.

The Ammon School’s first campus-wide Conversations on Race event took place in 2014. Current news events have shown us that the need for such dialogue is probably greater than ever.

High school students from across Long Island gathered at Adelphi University for a day promoting human rights, sensitivity and respect for people of all races, religions, cultures, ages and genders.

Anne Mungai, Ph.D., interim dean of the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, has been providing for children in her native Kenya since 2005. That’s when she and her husband, George, an adjunct professor in the Ammon School, established an orphanage for toddlers in Wangige. They later set up a school for underserved children in…

David Sobel, speaking at the 2017 Robert and Augusta P. Finkelstein Memorial Lecture Series, presented a model called “place-based education.”

HealthNets Partnerships in Health Conference drew more than 75 health educators from across Long Island and New York City to share health education ideas at Adelphi University.

Clinical Associate Professor John Wygand put “cupping”—the therapy responsible for those blotches—through its own Olympic-like trials.

The research of Meredith Whitley, Ph.D., in informed by a passion for understanding the correlations and causalities affecting young athletes in risk-laden environments—and developing viable solutions.

Through his research, Julian R. Woolf, Ph.D., has gained profound insight into the prevailing cultural beliefs about, and attitudes toward, PEDs,

Stephen Mark Shore, Ed.D., recently traveled to Bangladesh and Bhutan to speak about autism education, giving hope to parents that rich and fulfilling futures are possible for their children with autism.

Students have taken advantage of a new academic option: a minor in public health, which is open to all undergrads regardless of their major discipline.

Adelphi Educational Technology professor Matt Curinga was awarded a proclamation for his involvement in the STEAM Lab at PS 9 in Brooklyn.

Presenters at Adelphi University's 37th annual Exercise Science Human Lab Research Symposium in May 2017 discussed practical applications of various exercise-related research studies and dispelled at least one myth—cupping’s impact on athletes like Olympics swimming gold medalist Michael Phelps, who used that therapy at the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics.

The 2017 Teaching Personal and Social Responsibility Alliance Conference, held at Adelphi's Manhattan Center, brought in scholars, educators and high school students to discuss teaching methods and problem solving.

Camp Abilities, a summer sports camp on Adelphi University's Garden City campus, helps youngsters with visual impairments as well as students pursuing degrees in physical education and exercise science.

In these tense, polarized times, it's important to consider the impact that all this tension has on our children and our classrooms

Adelphi students and professors participate in this year's Greentree Foundation Teachers' Ecology Workshop.

In support of national Exercise is Medicine on Campus Month, take advantage of the many physical activity opportunities at Adelphi for students, faculty and staff.

Benson is the executive director of Hip Hop Public Health with plans to return to the University to teach a youth sports class.