News at Adelphi

Archaeologist and anthropology professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, Ph.D., along with students, is investigating an ancient man with a strange hole in his chest, says Newsweek.

For over a decade, the First Year Experience Committee has been acknowledging first-year students who exhibit academic excellence, community and campus involvement, and strength in leadership. This year, they selected first-year student Anastasia Dakis.

Skeletal remains of an ancient Greek male studied by archaeologist and anthropology professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, Ph.D., reveals evidence of execution, says Forbes.

The summer of 2018 I had the pleasure to work alongside Make the Road NY and take part in the detention defense project helping immigrant families across the state.

As a young woman from a small town in Connecticut, Sarah Cinquemani knew that she did not wish to attend a large university, such as UConn. She wanted to attend a smaller institution that provided access to her professors.

Theatre Professor Maggie Lally’s work as director of a Jonathan Larson ’82 project is mentioned in Playbill article about the development of an album featuring Larson's lesser-known works.

Pi Sigma Alpha is the national Political Science Honor Society, with over 700 chapters at the most leading colleges and universities in the United States.

The Department of Political Science awards seniors for their hard work and dedication.

My first year at Adelphi University was perhaps my most eventful year to date. As a small town girl from Texas, the idea of moving near a world-renowned, gigantic city like New York completely terrified me.

This month, representatives of Bridges to Adelphi will be going around campus to educate others about the program as well as sponsoring events that draw attention and awareness of neurodiversity.

Spring break is a time to get away from campus, but, at least for some student scholars at Adelphi, it's not necessarily a time to get away from their studies.

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.

Eric Priest attended the Washington Center from January 24 to May 4, 2018 and interned with Representative Adam Kinzinger’s congressional office.

From April 14-18, 2019, fourteen AU students will represent Lithuania at the National Model United Nations (NMUN) conference in New York.

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

A professor and dean at Ithaca College has been named dean of Adelphi University's College of Arts and Sciences, effective July 1.

The internship experience with my local assemblyman, Ed Ra, educated me about local issues in our community.

Students in Intro to Cybersecurity got a hands-on look at how easy it is to exploit technology—and the people who use it—when they were assigned the task of creating and sending mock phishing emails to faculty and staff.

Studio art major Miguel Angel Puentes gained a new understanding of the power and potential of art by painting murals for patients battling serious illnesses.

Sarah Combs, one of the first students in our new five-year B.A./M.S. in Environmental Studies program, is heading to a remote corner of Minnesota to map the first settlements of the Ojibwe tribe.

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.

For two days—Friday, March 1, and Saturday, March 2—the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center is in for something a little different: The Rome Prize-winning composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa will present a free composition workshop on Friday and give a concert of recent and older works the next day. Both events are open to the public.

Social change begins in the classroom. Dr. Michael J. Sorrell has transformed Paul Quinn College, the small, private institution in Dallas. In his keynote address at the conference, he called for universities to help bring about social change and end poverty.

On Thursday, February 14, Prison Reform and Rehabilitation: 46th Annual History Conference dove into the history and current state of criminalization, punishment and rehabilitation in prisons.