“Empowered”: That’s the feature story in this year’s Adelphi University Magazine.

In this year’s cover story—“Empowered: Seven Inspiring Stories About the Impact of an Adelphi Education”— outstanding alumni share how their Adelphi experiences shaped their lives and set them up for professional and personal success. Then see how our community is coming together to ensure that current and future students have the same life-transforming opportunities at Adelphi and go on to make an impact on the world. We also give you an inside view of two extraordinary events: our seventh annual Women’s Leadership Conference and our first ever Writers & Readers Festival featuring Alice Hoffman ’73, ’02 (Hon.). And you can catch up on the latest student, faculty and alumni news—including highlights of an historic year for our student-athletes.


Feature Stories

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Seven alumni share how Adelphi opened doors, helped them overcome personal obstacles and set them up for professional and personal success.


Congratulations, Class of 2024

Adelphi University celebrated our 128th Commencement ceremony on Tuesday, May 21 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum. For the first time ever, we held two ceremonies, undergraduates received their bachelor’s degrees in the morning and graduate students in the afternoon. Our doctoral students were celebrated separately on Monday, May 20 at the Doctoral Hooding ceremony at our Performing Arts Center.


Inside This Issue

Edward Jansen standing in front of the Brookhaven National Labs sign
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Summer internships at Adelphi continue to expand and offer our students extraordinary opportunities. This summer, junior Honors College student Edward Jansen earned a federally supported internship at Brookhaven National Laboratory working with emerging AI programming. Learn about his experience working near a nuclear reactor and a particle accelerator at one of Adelphi’s most prestigious STEM partners.

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Maria Rossi, a student in our Master of Social Work program, found a unique way to improve women’s health in her rural Vermont county—she combines doula counseling with social work advising. She presented her innovative thinking at the World Association for Infant Mental Health Conference in Dublin this summer, an impressive global honor for a graduate student.

Portraits of three students. Kelly Andreuzzi is holding a green bag filled with vegetables grown at the campus's community garden. Morenike Olushola-Oni, in a lab coat, smiles at the camera. Joseph Benevento on the shore of the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in the New York City borough of Queens.
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Whether it is getting Adelphi involved in state environmental initiatives, addressing the challenges of food waste on campus, or studying shorebird ecology for the National Park Service, these environmental science students are making remarkable strides for our planet.

NSF Grant Students
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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.”

Kyana Gordon in the biology lab.
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Kyana Gordon ’24 was turned away from doing research at her high school. Now, after two years in Adelphi biology labs, she's off to conduct epidemiological research in Jamaica as a Fulbright Scholar. Meet her and three other winners of prestigious national academic awards.

Nino on the stairs of the Capitol, facing away from the camera and holding a briefcase.
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Undergrad Nino Burjanadze, a Levermore Global Scholar, has been selected for a semester-long internship with The Washington Center Academic Internship Program in Washington, D.C. She will advocate for better resources for schools located in areas with funding challenges, like Native American reservations and low-income housing communities.

Linda Davis Valdez smiles broadly while giving her address. She is standing before a microphone on a lectern with a gold sign saying Adelphi University, New York.
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Meet the four inspirational winners of this year's Mother-Scholar Awards, honoring parents who return to Adelphi, often through the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, to complete their degrees. Flexible scheduling and personal mentoring help create a sense of belonging and help these time-challenged students “stay on track to success.”

Awards and Accolades

With roots that stretch back to the 1860s, Adelphi University has been transforming lives with our unique approach to learning for more than 150 years. Throughout the decades, we’ve welcomed students from around the globe, expanded our academic offerings and geographic reach, and celebrated significant milestones in diversity, rankings, and successful outcomes.


Faculty Focus

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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.

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Noting that some of his graduate nursing students had barriers to success—like tech skills or communication challenges—Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo, PhD, launched the Equitable, Targeted and Structured Onboarding Program. Read about the success of this program, and how he is now collaborating with four other universities to replicate it.

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