News at Adelphi

Associate professor of theatre John McDermott has designed sets for more than 250 shows off-Broadway and regionally since 1992.

Four history majors—Anisa Sinclair ’22, sophomore Joseph D’Andrea, junior Anujot Kaur and junior Beth Ceriello—gained valuable experience through their summer internships, including at Fintech in Action, the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Connecticut's Mystic Seaport Museum and an elementary school.

When Kurana Doobay started at Adelphi two years ago, she looked for a community to share her Hindu faith with.

This fall, Adelphi welcomed a new set of dedicated, diverse and knowledgeable faculty members.

Adelphi was a great stepping stone to the successful career I have today.

I discovered my voice, unearthed my leadership potential and tapped into a greater consciousness to those around me.

Adelphi fostered my success by creating an environment in which I am consistently inspired and never stop learning.

Adelphi truly values its students.

Adelphi provided me with unique opportunities to become more involved in community service.

A distinctive new program for Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) at Adelphi University will send a group of students to India in January 2023 for an intensive, all-expenses-paid, study tour, sponsored by Adelphi alumnus Bharat Bhisé, MBA ‘78.

Dear Adelphi Community, I am excited to share news of a unique global learning experience for our students made possible by an inspiring alumnus. Bharat Bhisé, MBA ’78, has established the Bhisé Global Learning Experience Fund to further promote a global mindset at Adelphi by sponsoring an intensive, all-expenses-paid, overseas study tour for a cohort of Levermore…

The prestigious experience and honors achieved by our gifted students in acting, directing and design/tech are a powerful springboard for their future careers.

A new dual-blockchain architecture promises to enhance election transparency, security and equity.

Faculty memoir excavates the trauma of racism.

Adelphi students find their voice in the national conversation on criminal justice.

The McDonell Summer Fellows Program gives budding scientists opportunities, mentorship and a stipend so they can dive into research

An Adelphi novelist uses her retirement to probe the complications of money and boredom.

The College of Arts and Sciences (CAS) Adjunct Faculty Development Grant supports the current research of adjunct faculty members with a $500 award.

The Dean’s Innovation Grant is the result of an Envisioning CAS Implementation Committee recommendation to support faculty who are investing in evidence-based teaching—pedagogy that's based on empirical evidence rather than tradition or personal judgments—as well as faculty investing in developing interdisciplinary work.

Taking Spanish at the Wantagh, New York, high school was “serendipity," said Laraine Fletcher '61, PhD, a longtime anthropology professor at Adelphi University. It was the decision of a lifetime.

Adelphi's 2022 Fall Arts Festival event is featured.

On Adelphi's busy campus, there's a place where students, faculty and staff can find a moment for prayer or reflection and meet with others to worship, enjoy a meal or share ideas.

“How do we experience being alive?” That’s the question Igor Webb, PhD, professor in Adelphi University’s Department of English, explores in his latest book, Buster Brown’s America: Recollections, Reveries, Reflections—and incorporating This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year. “In everyday life, we don’t experience being alive in the same way,” said Dr. Webb. “It’s not…

Kees Leune, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, believes everyone benefits when a classroom is more diverse. It's a belief he shares with Salvatore Petrilli '05, EdD, now associate dean for academic operations and general education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and that led them in 2016 to rethink the undergraduate computer science curriculum.

Industry-steering alumni share their insights and perspectives on the future.

Adelphi recently lost a truly remarkable former member of our faculty: Abe Shenitzer, PhD, professor of mathematics, who survived the Holocaust to go on to a noteworthy career as a mathematician, translator and advocate who spoke publicly about his experience, passed away at the age of 101 in June 2022.

Throughout our 125-year history, many of Adelphi’s women leaders were the only women in the classroom, boardroom or corner office—and had to blaze a trail for the women who followed in their respective fields.

The fall semester kicks off with Welcome Weekend, an opportunity for incoming students to start their journeys and for the Adelphi community to welcome them aboard.