News at Adelphi

Dear Adelphi Community, Out of an abundance of caution, the Adelphi University Garden City Campus, and the Hauppauge, Manhattan and Hudson Valley Centers will be closed on Thursday, June 8, 2023 due to air quality issues forecasted to affect our region over the next 24 to 36 hours. After careful conversation, Adelphi’s leadership team has…

Thanks to a grant from the Spencer Foundation, two faculty members from the Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences will use technology to study the emotional atmosphere of school buildings.

The identical twins run almost identical times while setting track records for the Panthers.

Nobel Peace Laureate Muhammad Yunus and Adelphi’s dean of the College of Nursing and Public Health, Deborah Hunt, PhD ’12, will be sharing knowledge, resources and research to improve health outcomes and build their respective missions in healthcare.

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.

Adelphi proudly announces its 2023 Newman Civic Fellow, Joe Sawma. Opportunities like the Newman Fellowship award—a yearlong civic learning and networking experience—are life-changing for our students. Sawma is seen here in the Dining Hall of the Ruth S. Harley University Center, where he created his food donation program to fight food insecurity.

Programming includes a robust calendar of workshops, programs and activities for Adelphi undergraduate and graduate students, and local high school students.

2022–2023 Faculty Excellence Awards Recognize Professional Dedication in Arts and Sciences, Education and Health Sciences, and Psychology

Growing up in Turkey, the founder and CEO of the best-selling yogurt brand had his life planned out. Then he had to start completely fresh.

“Farm-to-table” has been a popular movement for years, with restaurants adopting the label and creating menus boasting an abundance of fresh, local ingredients. Yet even as the public dines on this thoughtfully prepared food, many do not consider one critical link in the food chain between the farm and the table: the farmworker.

Adelphi’s Class of 2023 celebrated their accomplishments with family and friends at the University’s 127th Commencement ceremony on May 23 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

The Adelphi University Robert B. Willumstad School of Business has introduced a hybrid accelerated option for its Professional Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program.

Associate professor and chair of the Department of Dance Orion Duckstein’s idea for choreographing a piece about his grandmother’s life emerged at an unexpected moment.

Elizabeth Palley, JD, PhD, professor of social work and director of Adelphi’s social work doctoral program, is on a mission to bring American child care policy into the 21st century.

Adelphi University’s nursing, business and public health programs have once again been included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of top graduate programs for 2024.

For the past 20 years, Adelphi has honored students, student organizations and faculty members who have made a commitment to pursue excellence in their various endeavors.

Just three years after earning a master's degree in creative writing, Robin Gow, MFA ‘20, has sold three books to major publishers.

The caring science approach in nursing is on the rise, said Jean Watson, PhD, a distinguished professor emerita and dean emerita, University of Colorado Denver College of Nursing, as she addressed 90-plus Adelphi College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH) attendees in an April 26 Zoom presentation.

Dear Adelphi Community, In December 2019, our university was fortunate to gain the service of Dr. Jacqueline Jones LaMon, JD, MFA, as its vice president of diversity and inclusion, bringing with her more than 13 years of prior leadership in the Adelphi community as a professor of English, program director for our MFA in Creative…

Faculty member Nicole Rudolph, PhD, gave an impressive showing on the beloved game show.

Adelphi University is hoping to welcome a record-setting undergraduate class this fall, following a 25 percent surge in deposits received by National Decision Day on May 1, 2023 versus 2022. The University has received deposits from more than 1,345 new first-year students, hailing from 26 states and 35 countries. “We are thrilled that so many…

Sauropods—including iconic long-necked dinosaurs like Brachiosaurus and Apatosaurus —were the largest animals ever to walk the Earth. No other dinosaur or land mammal even comes close. Now, a new Adelphi University study provides insights into how these supergiants achieved their record-breaking sizes over time. “It was previously thought that sauropods evolved their exceptional sizes independently a few times in…

College of Nursing and Public Health faculty presented on a variety of topics at the Eastern Nursing Research Society (ENRS) 35th Annual Scientific Sessions, which took place March 23 and 24 in Philadelphia.

Following an extensive national search, Joanne Corbin, PhD, has been selected as the next dean of the Adelphi University School of Social Work. She will begin in her new role on July 17.

Beginning in Fall 2023, Adelphi University will offer a new interdisciplinary, 22-credit Museum Studies program to current and prospective undergraduate students.

Project Firstline, a collaboration between the American Nurses Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently awarded Assistant Professor Edwin-Nikko Kabigting, PhD, and Clinical Assistant Professor Ani Jacob, DNP, an $8,000 educational grant to train nurses and nursing students on infection prevention and control.

What began in January 2023 as a visit by the Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health Dean Deborah Hunt, PhD ’12, to Mohammad Yunus in Bangladesh has since led to a lecture by the Nobel Prize laureate on March 21 on the Adelphi campus—and now to a nursing school partnership agreement.

Philosophy may be seen as an area of academic speculation, but Shawn Kaplan, PhD, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics and Public Policy program, researches how moral concerns affect current real-world issues.

Panthers are spreading awareness of the importance of mental health for student-athletes by teaming up with Morgan's Message, a national program named in honor or a young lacrosse player who took her life.