News at Adelphi

African American women make up a disproportionate percentage of victims of intimate partner violence. Are they receiving the help they need? Bernadine Waller, MA ’10, associate director of experiential learning at Adelphi's Center for Career and Professional Development and a PhD candidate in social work, just received a prestigious grant for her research—and, she is searching for an answer.

The University’s Manhattan Center brings some of Adelphi’s most popular programs to a global community of busy city residents.

Honors College students are required to attend three cultural events each semester. That’s easy with New York City in close reach.

Meeting with activists, ambassadors and policy makers—sometimes in the United Nations itself—makes our Levermore Global Scholars program unique.

A course during winter break that met in New York City proved that we can study international business without traveling very far.

Enjoying New York City is part of the Adelphi experience. So is returning to a beautiful, safe and serene campus after a day at museums, concerts, Broadway shows, ball games or restaurants.

This year’s Research Day on April 17 was Adelphi’s biggest yet—it grows every year. Learn what was new at our 16th annual event, and meet some of the students who presented their research.

Indigenous peoples often appear as caricatures in official histories and popular narratives of Japan’s 20th-century empire. A new book by assistant professor of history Kirsten Ziomek, PhD, paints a fuller picture of cultures that have long been marginalized.

Research by Geoffrey Ream, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, has revealed a shocking fact: Nearly one-quarter of young teens who died by suicide were LGBT.

Can women entrepreneurs succeed in male-dominated, conservative countries? Research by Murat Erogul, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, shows they can—as long as they practice what he calls “strategic disobedience.”

Lauren Gonzales, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, combines various methods of research to better understand the factors that can prevent persons with mental illnesses from integrating successfully into their communities.

Damian Stanley, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, has developed a test that may lead to the identification of subcategories of autism and the development of new interventions and/or treatments.

Patients of all ages come from surrounding communities for low-cost treatment of hearing, speech and language issues at Adelphi’s Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders.

Adelphi’s sense of community extends to the entire planet. That’s why we formed a Sustainable Campus Council—powered by staff, faculty and students—to develop solutions that will make Adelphi greener.

Joy Ann Matthias has years of experience helping communities recover from hurricanes. Now she’s preparing for bigger roles by studying for a master’s degree in Adelphi’s emergency management program.

The Garden Vines S.E.E.D.S. program is giving Adelphi students hands-on experience helping elementary schools in neighboring Hempstead plant and maintain vegetable gardens in their community.

Najee Hunt came to Adelphi determined to make a difference on campus and in the community. He’s done that—and has won a prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship, an honor given to student leaders from across the country.

Students interact directly with patients at the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders—one of many spaces on campus where students have real-world experiences in their major.

Marissa Guerrero, a master's student in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, is applying what she learned in Adelphi's simulation lab to her externship in Manhattan.

Students in Intro to Cybersecurity got a hands-on look at how easy it is to exploit technology—and the people who use it—when they were assigned the task of creating and sending mock phishing emails to faculty and staff.

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.