News at Adelphi

Salvatore Primeggia '64, MA '66, PhD, professor of sociology at Adelphi, will be honored as the 2019 Legends Award recipient. He teaches courses including The Italian American Experience and Media Images of Italian Americans.

Deborah Serani, PsyD, senior adjunct professor of psychology, is featured in Healthline on millennials and health.

Hurricane Dorian's devastation of the Bahamas and the East Coast of the United States drives home how emergency management as a field of study and training is vital.

Rachel Fryman, a clinical social worker in Adelphi’s Learning Resource Program, is honored by State Assemblywoman Judy Griffin as one of Long Island’s outstanding women.

Derner Professor Michael O’Loughlin runs a program at Adelphi, where doctoral students can train to conduct interviews and clinical examinations in order to write affidavits for asylum seekers under supervision by an Adelphi faculty member.

When Jacqueline Jones LaMon, JD, was six years old, she wrote her first poem after being inspired by a lesson in school about Walt Whitman. Hundreds of poems later, LaMon is now an award-winning author who was recently appointed associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and was selected as a 2019 BAU Institute Fellow.

Ellen Hagan, adjunct professor, has co-led Adelphi's Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat for high school students every July for the past 17 years. But Hagan is active outside of her work at Adelphi. She's an educator, performer, author of two poetry collections, and now an author of a young-adult novel.

Andy Atzert has been selected to serve as the new dean of the Adelphi University College of Professional and Continuing Studies, effective July 8.

In May 2019, Adelphi University announced receiving National Science Foundation grants for nearly $1.7 million. This month we report that more of our faculty have been awarded grants totaling $144,200.

Dr. Foellmer shared his expertise in a video produced by the Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter. He explained that healthy wetlands protect property and surrounding areas by absorbing flood water from storms such as Superstorm Sandy.

Patients of all ages come from surrounding communities for low-cost treatment of hearing, speech and language issues at Adelphi’s Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders.

Adelphi’s sense of community extends to the entire planet. That’s why we formed a Sustainable Campus Council—powered by staff, faculty and students—to develop solutions that will make Adelphi greener.

Dr. Carson won the Teaching Excellence Award for untenured faculty at Adelphi University and his teaching and research interests include literary theory, aesthetics, political theory, and ecocriticism.

In March 2019, Elaine (Kaupp) Smith '78, M.S. '88, Ed.D., was named dean of the College of Nursing and Public Health. The announcement may be new, but Dr. Smith is no stranger to Adelphi.

Igor Webb, Ph.D., director of creative writing at Adelphi, is a poet and author of short stories, essays and novels.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon is the author of two poetry collections and the novel In the Arms of One Who Loves Me.

Katherine Hill is the author of the novel The Violet Hour (Scribner, 2013).

Martha Cooley is a professor is the winner of an O. Henry Prize for Short Fiction (2017)

Judith Baumel, founding director of the Creative Writing Program at Adelphi, is a poet, critic and translator.

Vincent Wei-cheng Wang Ph.D. is welcomed as the new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Debbi A. Smith, M.A., M.B.A., M.S.L.S., has been appointed Interim Dean of University Libraries for Adelphi University effective April 1.

Margaret Gray, associate professor of political science, is quoted by the New York Times about indoor greenhouse farm labor conditions.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Fareri was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), an honor given to a handful of outstanding psychological scientists in the early stages of their postgraduate research careers around the world.

Inside and outside the classroom, experiential learning works. Hands-on, high-impact learning experiences are central to Adelphi's personalized approach to education. A panel at the conference provided examples of their benefits to students.

A study by Professor Geoffrey Ream Ph.D. on suicide rates in LGBTQ youth is featured by many media outlets including Reuters and Huffington Post.

Jacques Barber, Ph.D., professor and dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, is the winner of this year's Division 39 (Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology) Research Award.