News at Adelphi

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.

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.

When the Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies asked Jon Duff, Adelphi exhibitions and art collection curator, to curate an exhibition in honor of Black History Month, he immediately thought of multimedia artist Coby Kennedy.

On Wednesday, February 13, dozens of students and faculty members filled the Ruth S. Harley University Center's Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom to hear the day's guest speaker, Premilla Nadasen, Ph.D., who informed them, “If you all have come here to hear how black feminism will save us, you've come to the right place."

The Center for African, Black and Caribbean Studies invites you to join us for three significant events.

February 4, 2019 - We would like to inform you of a reoccurring phishing trend we have seen recently by someone impersonating an Adelphi employee.

Scientists from around the world travel to the famous CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to probe the fundamental structure of the universe using the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on earth—the Large Hadron Collider. Last summer, they were joined by an Adelphi senior, Muhammad Aziz, a physics major who spent six weeks as part of a longer 10-week internship with the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

This past weekend marked the inaugural BSides Long Island cybersecurity conference.

When Brian Seidl arrived at Adelphi as a first-year student, he had never taken a computer science course. Now, as a senior, he's working part time as a developer for Dealertrack, Inc., a company that provides software to auto dealerships.

"The cemetery within the fortification walls of Polystylon was discovered in 1991 and contained at least 20 graves, all of which were studied by Anagnostis Agelarakis, a bioarchaeologist at Adelphi University."

Adelphi students don't just learn in the classroom. They work in labs and professional settings and, at least in the classes of Michael D'Emic, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology, are known to get out and get their hands dirty.

EAB (formerly Education Advisory Board) cites Matthew Wright, Ph.D., Adelphi associate professor of physics and department chair. He says students need to hear they are loved and cared for by faculty and staff.

How do you measure the impact of writer-composer Jonathan Larson '82? By the sheer numbers of people over the years who have been moved and inspired by Larson's groundbreaking musical RENT, including actress-singer Vanessa Hudgens and Lin-Manuel Miranda, creator and star of the Broadway smash hit Hamilton.

With scientific discovery and technological innovation driving the economy, Adelphi has launched a five-year Accelerated Business of Science Program designed to give students with a passion for science a strong, marketable career path in science-related businesses.

Physicists don't often guarantee a look into the future, but the Society of Physics Students (SPS) seems confident that Adelphi's students will have a place in the field for years to come.

Young adult fiction has tackled plenty of controversial subjects. According to Visiting Associate Professor Donna M. Freitas, Ph.D.'s article in The New York Times, there's one topic publishers shy away from: religion.

Anthropology Professor Brian T. Wygal is quoted about the real impacts of climate change in Newsday.

The work of Anthropology Assistant Professor Brian Wygal is featured in this story from the German publication Sueddeutsche Zeitung about the world's history with climate change.

English Professor Jennifer Fleischner and her book on Keckly are included in this story from The New York Times.

When you walk into the Museum of Arts and Design in Manhattan, you'll see 125 pieces of colorful coral art relating to coral bleaching events and clay art exploring the possibilities of varied surfaces. This is Lauren Skelly Bailey: Studio Focus, an exhibit displaying the work of Lauren Skelly Bailey '12, M.A. '14, through January 13, 2019.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

Born in a small town in Brazil and spending his teenage years in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood controlled by a drug cartel, Walace Kierulf-Vieira grew up a world away from Adelphi.