News at Adelphi

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion launched the series of conversations, "Facing Racism" last year in response to the rallies in Charlottesville and decided to hold them again each Friday this September.

The University has kept the Adelphi student body in the loop regarding the fact that the Ruth S. Harley University Center (UC), home to administrative offices, student organizations, lounges, and dining and conference facilities, will be undergoing major, state-of-the-art renovations.

Renewable energy technologies bring the promise of a better life to rural villages in developing countries, but establishing those technologies in the lives of underserved populations is not a simple task. According to Gita Surie, Ph.D., it requires the development of a new innovation ecosystem composed of complex networks.

Yun Jung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Adelphi built a new conceptual framework for mobile interactivity (m-interactivity) to help us better understand how shopping via smartphone leads to business success.

She was sexually abused as a child. Now, she dedicates her life to helping other survivors break the silence.

“It's thinking about how science can be taught using simpler English and shorter sentences. "

Article written by Erin Nau discussing The Challenge of Metastatic Breast Cancer.

The Campus Recreation department is partnering with the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program for Breast Cancer Awareness Week.

In honor of National Coming Out Day, we're rolling out a new update (version 4.5) to our mobile app, AU2GO, to further support diversity and inclusion on-campus.

Colleges of Distinction has named Adelphi a 2018–2019 Career Development College of Distinction, one of only eight New York institutions on this year's list.

The School of Social Work's upcoming Social Work Practice Fellows (SWPF) program is designed to heighten the teaching and leadership skills of participating M.S.W.-level social work supervisors. But the initiative aims to do more than that.

The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement— reflecting Adelphi's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

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.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for Adelphi nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. “As soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. “It's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

Speakers for the 2018 Celebration of Survivorship.

Victoria Grinthal is a worker with Web Communications at Adelphi.

Long Island Business News has named Adelphi University President Christine Riordan one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in Business.

He's an Olympic champion, military hero, entrepreneur and philanthropist, and on Saturday, October 13, Mel Pender '76, '97 (Hon.), will add another title to his accomplishments: Adelphi Legend.

Alice Hoffman '73, '02 (Hon.), our 2018 Legends Dinner keynote speaker, has written fiction for children, middle-grade books, adult novels and a work of nonfiction. A thread of magic runs through many of them, but her latest is quite a departure from its predecessors.

Adelphi's second annual Spirit Weekend has a first: the inaugural Fall Frenzy concert.

The Center for Student Involvement (CSI) has a new director, and she's no stranger to Adelphi.

On Monday October 1, 2018, a student reported to the University that they were the victim of a sexual assault that occurred on a previous date at an off campus location.

Several noteworthy postgraduate workshops are planned for the coming weeks and months as the School of Social Work continues its commitment to providing excellence in professional development and continuing education.

“The opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi. “Nurses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

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

Graduate school is all about small classes and close working relationships between students and faculty members. Adam P. Natoli, M.S., a Ph.D. candidate in his fourth year at Adelphi's Derner School of Psychology, is another student who is benefiting from collaborative work with a faculty mentor.

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."

One of the great benefits of Adelphi's small classes is that mentorship connections often form quickly. Mathematics and computer science professor Lee Stemkoski, Ph.D., thrives in small classes, constantly reminding his students that "education is not a spectator sport."