News at Adelphi

Adelphi's new postgraduate certificate in environmental justice for social workers is noted by Inside Higher Ed.

Dear Students, We at Adelphi want to reconcile with our 124-year history and address the institutionalized racism here, in higher education, and in society. Institutional racism must be eradicated. To do that, we must first become self-aware and identify the areas for change. Your valued experiences are bringing to light additional processes that require immediate…

Adelphi University has appointed longtime public safety associate director Ray Hughes '82 as executive director of the Department of Public Safety and Transportation, effective September 1.

Blogging about natural hair and Black culture comes easily to Pamela Shaddock ’84. But these topics took a serious turn in 2015 when Shaddock’s older sister, Dianne Austin, was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Andy Atzert, dean of the College of Professional and Continuing Studies, is quoted in this Kiplinger story about our certificate programs. The story also appeared on Yahoo! Finance

Mark Grabowski, JD, associate professor of communications, shares his expertise in a U.S. News & World Report story on the history of Bitcoin.

Adelphi's first day of the Fall 2020 semester amid COVID-19 and the safety precautions being taken were featured in News 12 Long Island.

Michael D. D'Emic, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology, is quoted in a story by The New York Times about the discovery of a fossilized embryo. A similar story also appeared in Smithsonian Magazine.

A new social work graduate certificate program focused on environmental justice is featured in Yahoo News. The program was also featured in Long Island Business News and the Garden City Patch.

The Adelphi Alumni Playwrights Group's virtual monologue event is featured in The Garden City News.

On Sunday, August 16, Adelphi lost a beloved alumna: Claire Kantoff Shulman ’46, one of our first nursing graduates, who went on to become the first woman elected Queens borough president, a role she held for 16 years. Major media outlets throughout the region paid tribute to her extraordinary life, including The New York Times, the Daily News, the New…

The first work by the newly formed Adelphi Alumni Playwrights Group (AAPG) is coming to a Zoom near you! On Tuesday, September 1, the group will present Buffering…, an inaugural evening of musings inspired by a simple prompt: Write a monologue about the coronavirus that's not about the coronavirus.

Kristen Capezza, MBA ’12, Vice President of Enrollment Management and University Communications, is quoted in a story by Money about the increase in college financial aid requests.

A newly published book by an Adelphi University political science professor and a London School of Economics (LSE) international relations professor has been awarded the 2020 Friends of Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Biennial Book Award. Group Politics in UN Multilateralism (Brill, 2020), edited by Katie Laatikainen, PhD, professor of political science…

K.C. Rondello, MD, epidemiologist and clinical associate professor, shares his expertise in a LIVESTRONG.com story about dining in restaurants during the pandemic.

President Christine M. Riordan shared her leadership experience on a panel during an Inside LI webinar on reopening colleges amid COVID-19. Her comments are featured.

Katherine Hill, assistant professor of English, is featured in a YaleNews story about collectively critiquing literary work with three of her colleagues, which resulted in a book, The Ferrante Letters: An Experiment in Collective Criticism (Columbia University Press 2020).