News at Adelphi

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.

Everybody's psyched when they get the news that they've been accepted by Adelphi. Some just take their excitement to the next level.

Peri Finkelstein, 18, was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy, but that didn't stop her from reaching her goal of walking more than 1,000 steps in the Miami Half Marathon in 2016 and the final 1.5 miles in 2017—incredible feats for someone who has been on a ventilator since she was 2 years old.

In the performing arts, triple threats who can act, sing and dance are highly sought-after. Colby Christina, 17, has been doing all that since the age of 2, appearing in theater and dance performances and even as the host of her own TV show.

Alex Trujillo grew up in Reno, Nevada, but he's known since October 2013 that he wanted to go to college in another state. That is when a deadly shooting at his middle school forever changed his outlook.

Over the past few years, administrators, students and faculty on the task force and the committee have worked together to launch 13 initiatives that support LGBTQ+ groups.

During the 10-week program, Maldonado is working on an individual project based on a journal article published in Advances in Cryptology, “Linicrypt: A Model for Practical Cryptography."

For the third year in a row, Assistant Professor of Biology Michael D'Emic, Ph.D., is taking students on a 3-credit field course to dig sites in northern Wyoming and southern Montana.

Laura Fallon, Adelphi alumna, and Associate Professor Aaren Freeman are working together to bring back oyster breeding grounds off Long Island, working under the Community Oyster Restoration Effort.

There's an art to teaching science. That's the idea behind the Mobile Summer Institute (MoSI) program.

Every year, students from Adelphi's Department of Theatre spend part of the summer getting a look at how professional productions are made and helping develop shows.