News at Adelphi

Fifty years ago, as protests by Black students across the United States gained prominence, Black and Puerto Rican students at Adelphi University seized the moment to push for the creation of a program of study about their own histories in America.

Admission to Adelphi University will continue to be standardized test optional for current high school juniors applying for admission this coming year, recognizing the difficulty of taking SATs or ACTs during the pandemic.

When the United Nations wanted to host a concert celebrating its 75th year and the 10th anniversary of its Academic Impact program, it chose the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra. Our students and alumni had the outstanding experience of playing before a global Zoom audience.

While the pandemic has temporarily put an end to most on-site internships, Adelphi’s Innovation Center is helping both enrolled students and those taking a gap year to get hands-on, résumé-ready career experience remotely.

To Members of the Adelphi Community, In light of the profoundly disturbing events that unfolded at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, January 6, we invite our Adelphi faculty, staff and students to join an open community forum and panel discussion. Please save the date: Tuesday, January 12 12:30 p.m.–2:00 p.m. “Assault on the Capitol and Democracy”…

Geralyn (Geri) Caliendo ’84, MS ’20, and her daughter Gina Faiella ’20 are celebrating two Adelphi University graduations. Caliendo, currently assistant director of case management for Northwell Health-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, was awarded a Master of Science in Nursing Education on December 17. Faiella, a biology major and public health minor, received her bachelor’s degree in May.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and Adelphi University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA, has another credit to add to his honors. Sanctuary Road, the oratorio he composed with librettist Mark Campbell, was nominated for a 2021 Grammy Award for Best Choral Performance on November 24.

Launching a career in the video-game industry takes skill. Daniel Hickey ’20 is hoping he’s found a winning strategy by creating his own game-development studio while interning for an established one.

Here’s the perfect antidote to this year’s unconventional Thanksgiving: a new film that The New York Times calls “a surprisingly charming and hilarious approach to a traditional holiday.” The comedy stars Jane Seymour, Kat Dennings and Wanda Sykes, among others, and was produced by Ben Stiller. It was written and directed by Nicol Paone ’94.…

Few women in Nepal go into science and technology. Neha Adhikari is one of them, majoring in computer science at Adelphi on a #YouAreWelcomeHere scholarship for international students.

The Winchester Mystery House is an architectural marvel, a historical landmark and, as its website notes, “the world's most beautiful, yet bizarre mansion."

Adelphi will now offer a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations degree for students interested in taking a deep dive into world politics and issues. The new undergraduate program is designed to equip students with analytical tools and interdisciplinary perspectives to make sense of the rapidly changing world and prepare them for a career in diplomacy, international business, law and advocacy, and global public policy.

What happens to live entertainment production during a pandemic? It stops, then it adapts. On October 1, two alumni in the business—Joe Minoso '01 and Dana Blair '04, MBA '08—gave an online audience an inside look at the industry's struggles this year, how it's changed now that production has resumed and where it's headed.

Will President Donald Trump be able to win a second term in the White House? Or will former Vice President Joe Biden be able to beat the incumbent? On Wednesday, October 14, Adelphi University will host a discussion on the politics surrounding the 2020 presidential election with Robert Costa, national political reporter for The Washington Post,…

On Thursday, October 1, Margaret Lally ’82, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate “2020 and the Entertainment Industry: A Conversation with Dana Blair and Joe Minoso,” about the impact of COVID-19 and other unparalleled events on the entertainment business, with two Adelphi alumni in the know—TV host/entrepreneur Dana Blair ’04,…

In 2016, two Adelphi University anthropology faculty members, working in Alaska with student collaborators, found a virtually complete, 14,000-year-old tusk of what may have been one of the last woolly mammoths on the Alaska mainland. At the time, it was thought to offer clues as to why the mammal later went extinct.

One artist captures nature in a time of climate change.

Demystifying blockchain, Bitcoin and other digital money matters

An Adelphi novelist and the creation of a new genre: “collective criticism"

A well-known scholar of issues in East Asian politics and international relations, Vincent Wang, PhD, dean of Adelphi's College of Arts and Sciences, continues to be a highly sought-out speaker and presenter.

Studies of endocrinology in Chilean rodents shed light on human health.

According to the World Health Organization, half of the world's population will be living in water-stressed areas by 2025, creating a dire need for improved waste recycling and water purification systems. Scientists around the world are searching for efficient energy sources to harness for this purpose—among them, Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, PhD, associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi.

The novel results of exploring heuristics, induction, working backwards, symmetry—and each other