We challenge our students to ask questions. Solve problems. Think about “what if?” And the Adelphi faculty is leading by example in a perpetual quest for knowledge.
Spark New Ideas
Opportunities for undergraduate research and creative work at our main Garden City campus, as well as our centers around New York state, enrich and elevate your Adelphi experience.
Academic and Creative Research Magazine
Adelphi’s Academic and Creative Research Magazine showcases thematic connections in our faculty’s research and creative work across disciplines.
Effective Research Starts With a Hypothesis
Independent research and collaborative projects. Experiments and inventions. Artistic creations and performances. Trial and error. Risks, rewards. Data, lots of data.
You will find these scholarly and creative pursuits in many forms at Adelphi. Undergraduate students can gain career-boosting experience as research assistants in faculty labs but also embark on projects of their own with the guidance of faculty mentors—unlike at many other universities. Master’s and doctoral candidates are drawn to Adelphi for its reputation for innovative graduate-level research—with personal support from distinguished faculty in small, supportive classes.
And our faculty—the heart of Adelphi—keep the spirit of discovery alive in their research labs and studios, in fields and forests, and anywhere a big question might lead.
Research Scholarships and Creativity at Adelphi
Exciting things are happening at Adelphi. See what’s garnering our faculty attention internationally, earning our students top awards and fellowships, keeping undergrad lab assistants busy—and what goes on behind the scenes as we support and share these efforts.
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
A nationally recognized doctoral university, we’ve nurtured an environment where our faculty explore their creativity, engage in critical inquiry, contribute new knowledge, mentor researchers and receive recognition for their achievements.
Undergraduate Research and Projects
Adelphi students have access to hands-on learning opportunities that their peers at larger institutions don’t often find at the undergraduate level. They serve as lab assistants, pursue independent research, co-author papers with faculty mentors and present at academic conferences.
Annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference
Our spring celebration of scholarship and creativity brings us together to learn and share as a community. Graduate and undergraduate research students share digital posters, give presentations and performances, and answer questions about their work. You might hear chemistry students discussing gene therapy, social work students sharing solutions for veteran housing, dance students performing a classmate’s choreography or young entrepreneurs sharing their million-dollar business ideas.
Supporting Our Scholars
The Office of Research and Sponsored Programs helps faculty researchers find scholarships, funding opportunities, prepare and edit proposals, manage awarded projects and communicate with external partners. The office also offers consultations and training.
Faculty Spotlight: Scholars & Artists
Creating Culturally Competent Teachers
Fayth Vaughn-Shavuo, PhD, senior adjunct faculty member, and Professor Pavan John Antony, EdD are co-authors of Creating Culturally Competent Teachers in Higher Education as a Consequence of Cultural Immersion (Springer, 2022). The book presents a model to prepare culturally responsive teachers by providing a road map for teacher preparatory programs and giving valuable fieldwork knowledge for cultural responsiveness.
Research on Home Healthcare for Older Americans
College of Nursing and Public Health Assistant Professor Zainab Toteh Osakwe ’06, PhD, discusses the importance of home health aides for the elderly during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York—and the role of the Clinical Education and Simulation Lab (CESiL) home-care setting in nurses’ training.
Transforming STEM in Higher Education
Adelphi University’s Professor Lawrence Hobbie, PhD, and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs and Academic Advancement Eugenia Villa-Cuesta, PhD, discuss their multidisciplinary effort to inspire diverse students to enter the STEM workforce through the STEM2 Network. This project is funded by a five-year, $500,000 National Science Foundation grant and involves collaboration with biology, chemistry and math faculty at four other local institutions.
Adelphi’s Pulitzer Prize-Winning Composer, Paul Moravec
Adelphi’s first Celebration of Scholarly Research and Creative Works video features an interview with University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA, who has created nearly 200 music compositions—including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Tempest Fantasy, inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. One of his four operas was based on Stephen King’s novel The Shining.
Explore the Adelphi Difference
An Adelphi education transforms lives in many ways. Students at all levels and disciplines have the chance to participate in experiential learning, including research, through classes, labs, projects, clinical experiences, internships, community service and more.
Adelphi Investigates
This is what discovery and creativity look like at Adelphi. 6 Photos
Research & Scholarly Works
Frequently Asked Questions about Adelphi’s Research
Research at Adelphi can take you from the chemistry lab to the art studio, and anywhere in between. Students in all disciplines are encouraged and supported in their explorations beyond the classroom, from the sciences, business and healthcare to education, the arts and the humanities.
Everyone! Students are welcome and encouraged to take on research and creative work from day one as undergraduates. Graduate and doctoral students also have ample opportunity to explore their interests and ideas.
There are a number of summer research funding opportunities for undergraduate students at Adelphi—reach out to the SPARK Center for more information. Graduate students should contact their graduate advisor or graduate director to inquire about funding for their project.
Undergraduate students should contact the SPARK Center for information on applying for research funding. Graduate students should contact their graduate advisor or graduate director about funding for their project.
Sometimes graduate students will apply for external funding to support their research. Graduate students interested in external grants should contact their research advisor and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.
Yes! A few recent examples include psychology and both theatre and dance, biology and both mathematics and computer science, and economics and political science. You are free to combine your interests and passions.
Deeply engaged students always benefit from being a part of an academic community, and Adelphi strivesto develop this engagement from day one. Research allows for deep dives into topics you’re interested in and passionate about, enhancingknowledge gained in the classroom and promoting curiosity and critical thinking. We want our students to know they can make real contributions to their areas of study and to the world.
Students at all levels have opportunities to showcase their research in publications and conferences. Faculty members regularly include student contributors in their published research, and sometimes students are even lead authors. Adelphi also facilitates travel opportunities to conferences for research presentations.All students are invited to present projects at Adelphi’s annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference, held on our Garden City campus each spring. Hundreds of students share posters, oral presentations or performances of their work with the community, and classes are canceled to allow full attendance at this special event.
Adelphi University expects our affiliated researchers and principal investigators to uphold the highest standards of ethics. The University and the Office of Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP) have approved policies to help ensure adherence to all legal, ethical and safety requirements set forth by various authoritative agencies.
All research performed at Adelphi or by Adelphi faculty, staff or students that involve humans as subjects must be reviewed by the Institutional Review Board, an administrative body established to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects recruited to participate in research activities conducted under the auspices of the University.
Office of Research and Sponsored Programs
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