News at Adelphi

Can a “good" athlete become “extraordinary" in college? Should an “extraordinary" athlete get paid to play a sport they mastered while in college? The answers to these questions are part of a controversial debate about whether student athletes playing college-level sports should be paid.

The Ruth S. Ammon School of Education will host its first Early Learning Conference on April 5, 2019, at the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center, with outspoken educator and thought leader Michael Hynes, Ed.D., as its keynote speaker.

At the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education's 37th annual Finkelstein Lecture in the Adelphi Performing Arts Center on October 17, 2018, Matt Jacobs, Nassau County regional staff director for the New York State United Teachers (NYSUT), expressed optimism about the future of unions despite the Supreme Court's controversial Mark Janus vs. AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) decision.

On Tuesday afternoon, October 16, the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education partnered with the Center for Career and Professional Development for the Ammon School's first Annual Career Fair—essentially, a job fair for teachers.

During the October 2018 Spirit Week 10 Under 10 Induction and Reception, Adelphi's first alumni affinity group was announced—with big plans to come.

A United Nations official and four keynote speakers are now booked for the 2019 International Association for Physical Education in Higher Education (AIESEP) International Conference on the Adelphi campus.

Adelphi's Institute for Parenting has done much to help young children and new families, while training the practitioners who provide them with mental health care. The institute comprises a clinic, multiple community initiatives, a degree program and postgraduate certificate programs.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

Born in a small town in Brazil and spending his teenage years in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood controlled by a drug cartel, Walace Kierulf-Vieira grew up a world away from Adelphi.

Progga Deb is a worker with the Help Desk at Adelphi.

Dirt covered the hands of Queens, New York, native Julio RuizDiaz last summer as he excavated artifacts in the Alaskan wilderness.

Born in Vietnam and moving to the United States at age 8, Lani Chau was determined to use art and science for the greater good through the field of renewable energy. That journey started with experiences in physics, chemistry and the arts at Adelphi.

"The idea is to help them think of themselves as citizens and to recognize that what they'll learn at Adelphi connects to the world beyond campus."

“It's been a very productive and exciting experience working with him and my friends in the math and computer science department."

English professor and author Martha Cooley wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books analyzing the trope of missing girls in fiction books.

Della Hudson, associate dean of student affairs, gave Newsday a tour of Adelphi's Panther Pantry, a service that provides food to those in need in the college community

Sally Stieglitz, J.D., digital learning and instruction librarian and adjunct professor, wrote an article for American Libraries magazine about the NASA Social program.

Meetings, activities, office use and dining at the University Center won’t be affected by construction until after Commencement in May 2019.

Jonathan Cristol, Ph.D., Levermore Global Scholars research fellow, is quoted in a German Bild article and featured in a podcast (at 4:24) discussing nationalism, Putin, and more.

Igor Webb, Ph.D., author, critic, professor, and director of the Adelphi University Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program hosted a gathering in celebration of his latest book, Christopher Smart's Cat, an unusual amalgam of memoir, short fiction and lit crit.

The Center for International Education would like to thank this year's judges, and congratulate all of the students who were finalists in this year's contest.

Any athletic field could use some TLC with such year-round use, and Motamed Field is receiving just that.

Adelphi is named one of the top colleges with great first-year experiences, according to U.S. News & World Report.

Della Hudson, associate dean of student affairs, gave Newsday a tour of Adelphi's Panther Pantry, a service that provides food to those in need in the college community.

Adelphi’s high graduation rates are featured in a Newsday article by President Emeritus Robert A. Scott about colleges that are focused on student goals.

The work of Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Dean Jacques Barber, Ph.D., and Nili Solomonov, Ph.D. '18 is cited in this article from The Wall Street Journal.

On Wednesday, November 14, 2018, the College Republicans and College Democrats held a well-attended debate on campus. They discussed the contentious issue of immigration.