News at Adelphi

From numbers to narratives, Adelphi faculty explore how health contributes to our collective bottom line.

For the fourth consecutive year, Adelphi University has been recognized as one of the world’s most prestigious universities.

The Spirit Spot Showdown, an artistic competition in which winners earn a reserved campus parking spot for a semester, successfully debuted at Adelphi University’s 2025 Spirit Weekend.

Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology has been selected as a collaborative partner in a $5.2 million grant.

A global business leader with a remarkable record of professional accomplishments, Vincent Tizzio ’89 is dedicated to fostering healthy communities both inside and outside the corporate world.

Adelphi has once again been recognized by Forbes as the highest-ranked private university on Long Island and by U.S. News & World Report as one of the nation’s Best Colleges.

Adelphi University has once again been recognized among the nation’s top institutions in the U.S. News & World Report 2026 Best Colleges rankings, with the undergraduate nursing program making one of the most significant gains in recent years.

While other colleges and universities encourage career planning in students’ senior year, more and more students are beginning career planning in their first year at Adelphi.

The Faculty Center for Professional Excellence is delighted to welcome the newest members of Adelphi’s faculty community.

Adelphi welcomes 14 new faculty members to four of our colleges.

A longtime member of the Derner faculty passed away in 2025—Richard Hansen, PhD, was extremely important not only to Adelphi’s postgraduate psychology programs but to the entire psychoanalytic profession. Below is a tribute to Dr. Hansen’s contributions to the field of psychology and the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.

According to the Innocence Project, 63 percent of the wrongfully convicted individuals the organization helped to exonerate were victims of eyewitness misidentification and 29 percent gave false confessions.

According to a 2025 survey by AARP, approximately 95.4 million people make themselves vulnerable to theft by responding to calls, texts or friend requests from people they don’t know. Deciding who we can trust versus who is out to scam us is growing increasingly difficult in a world where scams are becoming more convincing and…

On their very first day as Derner doctoral students, Travis Nair and Anne-Marie Romain struck up a friendship—the start of a lasting bond that has mutually supported them through the milestones and challenges of Adelphi’s nationally top-ranked clinical psychology doctoral program.

Undergraduate finance majors in the Student Investment Fund course manage a portfolio of holdings that are part of the University's endowment. How savvy are they? Quite savvy—their portfolio has tripled in value since 2008.

As the world learns the lessons of business practices of the past, many companies have evolved to incorporate a responsibility for the greater good into their corporate practices.

With excursions to New York City and mentoring by graduate students from India, participating students gained invaluable insights and firsthand exposure to Indian business and culture.

Students can earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree in just five years with Adelphi’s time-and-tuition-saving 4+1 accelerated programs.

Adelphi University is proud to announce a transformative new partnership with the Audacia Foundation and 1199 SEIU Training and Employment Funds (TEF) to offer fully funded scholarships to students pursuing careers in vital healthcare and social service fields. More than 100 Adelphi students are expected to benefit from this initiative, with additional scholarships still available…

Stephen Scelfo ’15, MBA ’16, is a senior manager at KPMG, specializing in audits for higher education and not-for-profits. A dedicated mentor and national trainer, he actively supports Adelphi students and promotes financial literacy in local schools. Stephen credits Adelphi’s community and mentorship with laying the foundation for his success.

Beth Ann Balalaos ’15, MA ’16, is access and inclusion program director at the Long Island Children’s Museum. A champion for disability inclusion and social justice, she credits Adelphi for igniting her advocacy journey. She speaks nationally on accessibility and serves on state and local boards advancing equity in cultural spaces.

The variety and sophistication of paid research projects undertaken by Adelphi students this summer reflects the University's emphasis on undergraduate research.

With dynamic curriculum, personalized learning and powerful career outcomes, Adelphi University’s graduate business programs have once again captured national attention.

Adelphi tennis star and neuroscience major Reece Farrow honored with a prestigious NCAA scholarship for graduate studies.