News at Adelphi

Adelphi's campus is a welcome oasis in the midst of suburban Garden City that embodies 19th-century naturalist Henry David Thoreau's edict that “We can never have enough of nature."

Mariano Torras, PhD, professor and chair of finance and economics, responds to a published article, flagging “one of the major obstacles to progress on the environment: the lack of precise meanings of ‘green’ and ‘sustainable.’”

Making art with children who have been affected by conflict has been Cindy Maguire, PhD‘s life’s work. “I work in the United States and internationally with children and youth in conflict-affected communities using arts as a tool for empowerment and teaching,” said Dr. Maguire, associate professor in the Department of Communications at Adelphi University.

For her senior thesis, physics major Gabriella (Gabi) Vidad '21 used remote sensing and widely available resources such as Google Earth to chart the severity of coral reef changes in the Philippines.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Adelphi a grant for an international research collaboration with the University of Warsaw. It will fund continuation of the U.S.-Polish International Research Experiences for Students (IRES), focused on solar energy research.

As a nursing major at Nassau Community College, Will Torres, now a rising senior and first-generation college student, realized he wanted to explore other options at a four-year institution. He wanted a campus close to his Glen Cove hometown that offered small classes and individually tailored instruction. He also wanted a friendly and inclusive campus.

For the last 18 years, Adelphi University has used organic means of maintaining its 75-acre campus, which includes an arboretum and a large percentage of green space. The practices have included the regular release of ladybugs as part of the effort to control damaging insects on its Garden City campus.

Adelphi Gives Back Month is an Adelphi University tradition. Spearheaded by the Center for Student Involvement (CSI), it offers students multiple ways to make an impact on our community throughout the month of March.

Pharmaceuticals save human and animal lives, but when they end up in our waterways, they present a dangerous form of pollution.

Adelphi’s reimagined Ruth S. Harley University Center reopened last month and is designed to be environmentally friendly. The iconic building on our Garden City, New York, campus was renovated, rather than demolished and rebuilt. Take a walk through.

In late summer 2019, Adelphi University constructed a temporary dining hall on campus to serve meals while the Ruth S. Harley University Center (UC) was undergoing major renovations and expansion. Called the Panthers’ Den, the facility has served students and others on campus well. But with the impending completion of the UC renovations—planned reopening will…

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.

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.

This fall, Adelphi University’s School of Social Work will launch a new virtual program granting a postgraduate certificate in Environmental Justice for Social Workers. The first of its kind in the United States, it is designed to prepare social workers for working with vulnerable communities our rapidly changing world. The certificate program, created and taught…

Divergent views find common ground in a proposed climate security fund.

Thousands of people in New York City—and more than 7.6 million around the globe—took to the streets on Friday, September 20, as part of the Global Climate Strike to demand climate action as world leaders prepared to meet for the United Nations Climate Action Summit.