News at Adelphi

On October 17, 2018, Cholena Smith, Shinnecock scholar and educator, brought her people's culture, history and traditions to Adelphi in honor of Native American Heritage Month in November and Indigenous Peoples' Day on October 8.

Growing up in Afghanistan under the Taliban, adjunct communications professor Mehdi Salehi saw firsthand how drones could be used for destructive purposes. Now, having fled Afghanistan, he's teaching at Adelphi University and using drones as a force for good as the founder of his company, Drone Labs, which deploys the technology to support humanitarian work.

Seniors Laura Rojas and Kimberly Campuzano spent this summer doing research in New Mexico and Colorado, respectively. On October 3, they gave presentations summarizing their experience and research to their audience in Blodgett Hall.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

Victoria Grinthal is a worker with Web Communications at Adelphi.

As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.

Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."

At Adelphi, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.

Fresh water and clean air are the most basic human needs. But according to Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi, both are becoming scarcer around the world, even in highly developed countries.

Shakespeare fan fiction: self-indulgent pastime or scholarly exercise? According to Louise Geddes, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Adelphi, fan fiction—stories using characters or situations from popular works, written by enthusiasts and posted online—is just one of many internet-based activities turning Shakespeare fan studies on its head.

A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

“Adelphi gave me the opportunity to come to New York and start a brand new life. I can’t imagine who I would be if it weren’t for all the incredible experiences I was able to create at Adelphi.”

“Adelphi made me understand my hidden potential.”

Brian Wygal, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology at Adelphi, believes that light can be shed on the colonization of Alaska by prehistoric people through the study of microblades.

The composer and University Professor Paul Moravec, D.M.A., has devoted his life to music, but he has another passion as well: history.

“My time at Adelphi set the foundation for me to become a litigator and give back to my community.”

“Adelphi made me realize that you don't have to fit in a box and it's good to try new things. If there is something that you believe in, but for some reason the path isn't there or resources are unavailable, you create it.”

“I love Adelphi. It created so many beautiful opportunities and helped me become the man I am today.”

Stop by the second floor of Blodgett Hall and you'll see a display of art guaranteed to push your emotional buttons.

Dominic Paolo first visited Adelphi last spring when he came to campus as a player for the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) baseball team for a game against the Panthers.

John Kulins is a worker with Endpoint at Adelphi.

In the performing arts, triple threats who can act, sing and dance are highly sought-after. Colby Christina, 17, has been doing all that since the age of 2, appearing in theater and dance performances and even as the host of her own TV show.

Alex Trujillo grew up in Reno, Nevada, but he's known since October 2013 that he wanted to go to college in another state. That is when a deadly shooting at his middle school forever changed his outlook.

Adelphi math professor crunches numbers to catch cancer at its onset.

Viewing a full autopsy and holding a human brain may not be up everyone's alley, but for junior biology major Nootshy Romage, it was the experience of a lifetime.

Adelphi professors are combining “A" for Arts with STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to create innovative learning experiences.

Adelphi students and their professor, Ivan Fabe Dempsey Hyatt, Ph.D. are discovering reactions that form molecules that may contribute to the development of new products and pharmaceuticals.

How do individuals grasp their identity when they're forced to leave home during a time of war?