News at Adelphi

While the pandemic has temporarily put an end to most on-site internships, Adelphi’s Innovation Center is helping both enrolled students and those taking a gap year to get hands-on, résumé-ready career experience remotely.

With our James Riley, Jr. Trading Room closed since last March, the finance course that allows business students to invest a portion of the University's endowment has gone virtual. Our students continued learning how to turn a profit during a volatile period.

Senior nursing major Kassie Vetrano volunteered at a hospital at the start of the pandemic to work with COVID-19-positive patients. After contracting the virus herself, she returned to her job once she recovered, determined to inspire patients as they battled the disease.

Few women in Nepal go into science and technology. Neha Adhikari is one of them, majoring in computer science at Adelphi on a #YouAreWelcomeHere scholarship for international students.

Senior business major George Adamou is one of the world’s top-ranked players of the FIFA soccer video games. He’s already earning money doing it, and now he’s considering esports as a career.

In his first job after graduating from Adelphi, Jaime Dasso ’18 discovered a passion for the way data helps businesses make better decisions. Now he’s returned to Adelphi to pursue a master’s degree in our new graduate program in business analytics.

Adelphi’s STEP and CSTEP programs are helping to prepare diverse students from local high schools and Adelphi for inspiring careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Rejo Jose is a respiratory therapist who transferred to Adelphi last spring to earn a nursing degree. He soon found that our nursing program offers more than just top academics; it also has faculty members who go out of their way to help students.

First-year student Matthew Brophy is a winner of a 9/11 Promise scholarship for children of first responders. Affected by a friend's suicide, he came to Adelphi for our top-tier psychology program.

Josephine Briones is a registered nurse who knows that technology and digital record keeping can be used to improve patient care. That's why she enrolled in Adelphi's online master's degree program in healthcare informatics.

Alma Lorena Monreal Munoz is a painter and designer who has been honored as a young entrepreneur in her hometown of Hermosillo, Mexico. She's also a winner of this year's You Are Welcome Here Scholarship, coming to Adelphi for our five-year BBA/MBA program.

Samantha Meehan loves the wide-open spaces of her native Colorado, but the energy of New York has drawn her to Adelphi, where she'll play on the volleyball team and study chemistry on an academic scholarship.

Brando Ortiz is coming from nearby Queens, but he's already traveled the globe winning world championships in salsa competitions. He'll study dance and business at Adelphi.

La-Keir Morris has devoted her career and life to working with victims of domestic violence and serving as a foster parent. Now she's entered Adelphi's graduate program in social work with a goal of starting her own youth development organization.

Online classes can present challenges for some students with disabilities. Adelphi's Student Access Office has worked overtime during the global health crisis to ensure assistive technologies are available for students who need them.

Omar Grant ’03 always wanted to be in music. Now the co-president of Roc Nation’s record label, he said he never would have gotten there without his business degree from Adelphi.

Dr. Monique Mohammed ’14, MS ’16, earned her Doctor of Optometry degree this spring. She couldn’t have done it, she said, without the support she received from the CSTEP and mentoring programs as a student at Adelphi. Read her inspiring story.

Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and University Professor Paul Moravec united more than 100 opera singers to deliver a song to lift the spirits of a world battered by the pandemic.

Damian Stanley, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, is working with colleagues from across the country on an ambitious research project on the psychological and social effects of the pandemic.

Students from as far away as Kansas are turning to Adelphi’s online master’s degree programs to advance—or change—their career.