News at Adelphi

This past fall semester, six current 4th year students, including one alumni of the Class of 2017 and faculty from the Long Island Doctor of Audiology Consortium traveled to the Philippines and India to provide free hearing healthcare and services in underserved communities.

Student-professor partnership promotes a new approach to transgender health.

It was December 2017, and Dan Jeffries '18 was dressed up as a one-eyed yellow cartoon Minion straight out of Despicable Me.

Adelphi's “Dr. T" travels the world to study how schools build relationships with families and communities.

Adelphi will be hosting the AIESEP conference June 19-22, 2019, and Dr. Emilia Zarco, M.D., expects approximately 400 attendees.

In May 2018, six students and two clinical faculty members of the Long Island Doctor of Audiology Consortium traveled to Guatemala, Central America, for seven days to provide free hearing healthcare and services to underserved communities.

Read Dr. Lee-James' interview with Speech Pathology Master's Programs.

On June 2, Adelphi hosted it's annual statewide robotic competition, run by Adelphi's Science Technology Entry Program (STEP). Adelphi's University Center was filled with 350 students and robots.

The Ruth S. Ammon School of Education celebrated the accomplishments of students in our health, exercise and sport sciences programs and held events to keep members of community healthy.

The Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) plans to relocate all its various laboratories to Linen Hall in the coming months.

Kristina Karouzakis, M.S. '18 & Kayla Franks, M.S. '18, feel prepared & focused as they begin clinical careers in speech-language pathology (SLP).

Chelsea Rojas was just beginning her M.S. in Communication Disorders but was already anxious to get a taste of real work. Rather than waiting for the opportunity, she created it—in Uganda.

Amanda Nagler, Ayesha Nashurdeen and Iman Salam are are pursuing double master's degrees and engaging in research collaborations.

“I am grateful to Adelphi that their teachers taught me to seek happiness in my profession—not by telling me that verbally, but by showing that excitement through their actions."

Adelphi offers personal attention from faculty members with international reputations. From Fulbright awardees to Pulitzer Prize winners, there are world-class scholars across the University.

Nicole Bennett knows a little something about looking beyond your traditional classroom education.

The co-editors and contributors to Written in Her Own Voice: Ethno-educational Autobiographies of Women in Education hope their book will help strengthen black women educators while changing attitudes among white male colleagues and supervisors.

As part of the Long Island Au.D. Consortium, several first and second year Audiology students provided free hearing screenings to students from the Hempstead school district.

Daryl Gordon, Ph.D., Ammon School associate dean, presented on TESOL topics to an international audience at the 14th annual CamTESOL Conference on English Language Teaching in Cambodia.

The 300-plus area high school students who attended the Human Rights Awareness Day Conference on Adelphi’s Garden City campus left with useful information about the various forms of discrimination, sexual harassment, mental health and immigration.

Devin Thornburg, Ph.D., Ammon School professor, visited schools in seven countries last fall, with seven more due this spring--to research practical, workable education models from which to learn and benefit.

The Ammon School’s first campus-wide Conversations on Race event took place in 2014. Current news events have shown us that the need for such dialogue is probably greater than ever.

High school students from across Long Island gathered at Adelphi University for a day promoting human rights, sensitivity and respect for people of all races, religions, cultures, ages and genders.

Anne Mungai, Ph.D., interim dean of the Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, has been providing for children in her native Kenya since 2005. That’s when she and her husband, George, an adjunct professor in the Ammon School, established an orphanage for toddlers in Wangige. They later set up a school for underserved children in…

David Sobel, speaking at the 2017 Robert and Augusta P. Finkelstein Memorial Lecture Series, presented a model called “place-based education.”

HealthNets Partnerships in Health Conference drew more than 75 health educators from across Long Island and New York City to share health education ideas at Adelphi University.