News at Adelphi

“It's thinking about how science can be taught using simpler English and shorter sentences. "

Article written by Erin Nau discussing The Challenge of Metastatic Breast Cancer.

The Campus Recreation department is partnering with the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program for Breast Cancer Awareness Week.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, we're rolling out a new update (version 4.5) to our mobile app, AU2GO, to further support diversity and inclusion on-campus.

Colleges of Distinction has named Adelphi a 2018–2019 Career Development College of Distinction, one of only eight New York institutions on this year's list.

The School of Social Work's upcoming Social Work Practice Fellows (SWPF) program is designed to heighten the teaching and leadership skills of participating M.S.W.-level social work supervisors. But the initiative aims to do more than that.

The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement— reflecting Adelphi's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for Adelphi nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. “As soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. “It's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

Speakers for the 2018 Celebration of Survivorship.

Victoria Grinthal is a worker with Web Communications at Adelphi.

Long Island Business News has named Adelphi University President Christine Riordan one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business.

He's an Olympic champion, military hero, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and on Saturday, October 13, Mel Pender '76, '97 (Hon.), will add another title to his accomplishments: Adelphi Legend.

Alice Hoffman '73, '02 (Hon.), our 2018 Legends Dinner keynote speaker, has written fiction for children, middle-grade books, adult novels and a work of nonfiction. A thread of magic runs through many of them, but her latest is quite a departure from its predecessors.

Adelphi's second annual Spirit Weekend has a first: the inaugural Fall Frenzy concert.

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) has a new director, and she's no stranger to Adelphi.

On Monday October 1, 2018, a student reported to the University that they were the victim of a sexual assault that occurred on a previous date at an off campus location.

Several noteworthy postgraduate workshops are planned for the coming weeks and months as the School of Social Work continues its commitment to providing excellence in professional development and continuing education.

“The opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi. “Nurses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.

Graduate school is all about small classes and close working relationships between students and faculty members. Adam P. Natoli, M.S., a Ph.D. candidate in his fourth year at Adelphi's Derner School of Psychology, is another student who is benefiting from collaborative work with a faculty mentor.

Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."

One of the great benefits of Adelphi's small classes is that mentorship connections often form quickly. Mathematics and computer science professor Lee Stemkoski, Ph.D., thrives in small classes, constantly reminding his students that "education is not a spectator sport."

Lectures by associate professor of finance and economics David P. Machlis, Ph.D., aren't one-sided talks. They're enthusiastic performances, filled with engaging give-and-take and interactive storytelling that encourage critical thinking.

Each year, students in Dr. Susan Zori's "Nursing Care of the Older Adult" class work in small groups to develop inventive products that could improve the lives of the elderly and address unmet needs.

At Adelphi, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.

According to Zainab Toteh Osakwe, Ph.D., assistant professor in Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health, the use of post-acute care services has increased dramatically over the past two decades for patients recently discharged from a hospital.

Fresh water and clean air are the most basic human needs. But according to Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi, both are becoming scarcer around the world, even in highly developed countries.

Dominic Fareri, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, knows that when people make even the smallest decision—such as whether to eat a salad or burger for lunch—their actions can be traced back to their early life history. Dr. Fareri has studied a diverse sampling of children and adults in order to parse the connection between life experience and decision-making.