News at Adelphi

If you go into Room 216 of the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center on Wednesdays at 5:00 p.m, you'll see a group of graduate students gathering to make their voices heard. This is the weekly meeting of the Graduate Student Council (GSC). Formed in 2016, GCS has attracted a growing number of members, all working together to make graduate school life easier.

Community service is a big part of a high-impact Adelphi education. It's an experience that affects both the head and the heart. It's also a factor in career development, as employers are increasingly looking to hire young people who have shown a commitment to volunteering.

When psychology major Julia Lafferty transferred to Adelphi in the second semester of her first year, she was worried about making such a big change. But she quickly found a home in Sigma Delta Tau sorority. More than 600 Adelphi students have also found a home in the Greek community, which comprises 19 campus organizations.

Intramurals and sport clubs, as everyone knows, are a great place to make new friends. It's these kinds of bonds that Campus Recreation creates—while also promoting health and fitness.

Since 1951, Adelphi's student newspaper, The Delphian, has delivered award-winning reporting on campus events and news.

At Adelphi, students from around the world are accommodated to thrive through the International Student Services office as well as the community as a whole.

At Adelphi, a wide range of student clubs and organizations helps students make the most of their college experience, connecting with other like-minded students and engaging in a rich campus life.

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.

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."

At Adelphi, business students don't just read about marketing strategies and business plans. They create them by working with companies like GEICO, United Parcel Service of America, Inc., and 1-800-Flowers.com. Soon, students will have even more opportunities to work with companies on the next big idea when Adelphi's planned Innovation Center, a 2,000-square-foot research lab in Swirbul Library, is completed in September 2019.

Biology professor James K. Dooley, Ph.D., is passionate about protecting endangered marine life and creating a better future for our planet. Throughout his 45 years at Adelphi, he has been recognized nationally, internationally and locally for his work in environmental preservation.

Korede Adegoke, Ph.D., began her professional career as a physician in her home country of Nigeria, committed to the treatment of pregnant women and their children. Dismayed by the preventable deaths she witnessed almost daily, she eventually came to the conclusion that the best way to help improve health among vulnerable populations would be to go into public health research and teaching.

How can women who face gender-based violence create conditions of safety and well-being in their lives? That is the question that animates the research efforts of Stavroula Kyriakakis, Ph.D., associate professor in the Adelphi University School of Social Work.

When Chotsani West, M.A. '07, returned to Adelphi in 2014 to start the University's Mentoring Program, her task was to help improve the retention rate of students of color.

Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D., a professor at Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and a recognized authority on leadership, spent six months studying global and diverse leadership as the 2018 Fulbright Scholar as Distinguished Chair at the University of Sydney in Australia.

Growing up in Afghanistan under the Taliban, adjunct communications professor Mehdi Salehi saw firsthand how drones could be used for destructive purposes. Now, having fled Afghanistan, he's teaching at Adelphi University and using drones as a force for good as the founder of his company, Drone Labs, which deploys the technology to support humanitarian work.

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."

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.

Dominic Paolo first visited Adelphi last spring when he came to campus as a player for the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) baseball team for a game against the Panthers.

After welcoming the two largest classes in its history in the fall of 2016 and 2017, Adelphi has done it again—continuing its streak and setting a new record as 1,265 first-year students arrived on campus at the end of August.