News at Adelphi

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.

Shakespeare fan fiction: self-indulgent pastime or scholarly exercise? According to Louise Geddes, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Adelphi, fan fiction—stories using characters or situations from popular works, written by enthusiasts and posted online—is just one of many internet-based activities turning Shakespeare fan studies on its head.

For the past three years, Carol S. Cohen, D.S.W., associate professor in Adelphi's School of Social Work, has served as principal investigator on a team of evaluators studying an innovative and unprecedented collaboration between seven U.S. schools of social work engaged, in pairs, with seven Chinese institutions.

According to Diann Cameron-Kelly, Ph.D., associate professor and B.S.W. program faculty chair, early paternal engagement can have life-changing results.

A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

Michael D’Emic, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, comments on the find (this ran nationally on-air and online in more than 33 news outlets).

The 3rd annual Bowling Benefit for the Adelphi Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program.