News at Adelphi

A pair of Adelphi physics majors spent their summer as interns at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory exploring new frontiers in imaging.

Recent history graduate Joseph D’Andrea ’25, MA ’26, interviewed Anagnostis P. Agelarakis, PhD, an internationally recognized bioarchaeologist of Greek antiquities, about the accuracy—and relevance—of the summer blockbuster The Odyssey.

During the Spring 2026 semester, Adelphi University was proud to welcome its first Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence, Bibek Banerjee, PhD, a renowned management scholar and entrepreneurial academic administrator from India.

Academic research will share the stage with the performing and visual arts at this year’s Scholarship and Creative Works Conference, with new features including a 24-Hour Play Festival, student gallery talks and a Nobel laureate keynote.

In February 2026, Nordic government ministers met in Denmark to discuss expanding the Helsinki Treaty, which has served as the framework for Nordic cooperation for the last 50 years, to include Greenland, along with two other autonomous territories.

Archaeologist and professor of history Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, shares his thoughts on a discovery he made about a murder in ancient Greece.

How do birds make parenting decisions? An Adelphi faculty member is conducting fascinating research to understand the complexities of the avian parent and child relationship.

An Adelphi professor uses machine learning to analyze 20,000 syllables of White-crowned Sparrow song.

The National Science Foundation has awarded an Adelphi University physics professor a grant to research the limits of image resolution.

At Adelphi’s Innovation Center, students find a remarkable place to share their projects, research and goals for the future.

The variety and sophistication of paid research projects undertaken by Adelphi students this summer reflects the University's emphasis on undergraduate research.

Collaboration leads to musical composition that tells a story without words.

With support from a two-part PhysTEC grant, Matthew Wright, PhD, associate professor and chair of physics, is leading Adelphi’s partnership role in the inaugural Cosmic Pathways conference, held in March at The City College of New York for high school and college students, as well as guiding physics students to network with area high school teachers and students.

Dancers make beautiful music through movement in this integrative approach to performance.

It all started in 2021—the (STEM)2 Network, funded by a $500,000 award from the National Science Foundation, set out to support faculty in transforming undergraduate STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) education from within.

Lessons learned from two high school band directors who said no to competition.

Making the case that Shakespeare's works are celebrities in their own right.

Student-faculty collaboration uncovers the roles of proteins and hormones in flower development

Why we cooked and ate as an antidote to fear and loneliness.

English major Brienna (Ennie) Conner is exploring the historical significance of the “Tar Baby” story to uncover the lived experiences of enslaved Africans and their descendants in early America.

At Adelphi, research is highly valued for undergrads as well as graduate students. This summer, six undergraduates are making new discoveries—inside and out of the lab.

Meet two students who dived into research and successfully presented on their topics: Chinese “comfort women” of World War II and the depiction of the melancholy Portuguese “saudade” in Spanish literature.

Under the guidance of Kevin Liang, PhD, assistant professor of physics, six computer science majors developed a device and a business plan to “do good while making a profit.”

The 54th annual festival showcased 16 films of various genres, all directed by Adelphi undergraduate students.

A study involving Adelphi anthropology faculty members has helped tell the life story of a female woolly mammoth who died 14,000 years ago. Their research is shedding light on the intertwined lives of humans and mammoths as the mammoths became extinct after the last Ice Age.

There are so many ways to dance, and a vast diversity of genres, techniques, styles and interpretations.

When a student comes to Adelphi University to study computer science, the curriculum is not one-size-fits-all.

If you ask Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo, PhD, professor in the Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH), what makes him passionate about research, he will tell you it’s something that has always been within him.

Adelphi University School of Education Assistant Professor Suraj Uttamchandani, PhD, and Associate Professor Matthew Curinga, EdD, and John Drew, associate professor of communications, have received funding from the Mozilla Foundation to redesign two courses in responsible computing.

The junior majoring in international relations is using her research and outreach skills to make a difference for her native country.