News at Adelphi

After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, trans poet Benny Sisson, MFA '20, wanted to get her master's degree in creative writing. She was accepted by many MFA programs, but after visiting Adelphi's campus, Sisson knew Adelphi “felt right and like a really good community," she said.

Dear Adelphi Community, A wealth of expertise, experience and perspective is brought to our University by the members of our board of trustees. Many of them are alumni, and they all share an important commitment to our mission, our students and our University. Today, I am pleased to share with you the names of three…

Joe Sawma is the 2022 recipient of Adelphi's Outstanding First-Year Student Award—and given his academic and extracurricular achievements so far, it's not hard to see why.

Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, is a holiday commemorating when, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, thus abolishing enslavement in the United States. Adelphi first recognized Juneteenth in 2020 by providing all employees with a paid day off. The University…

Growing up, adjunct faculty member Ellen Hagan’s first love was poetry. She began her journey as a poet, which led to her becoming a teacher. She’s been an educator for more than 20 years and co-leads Adelphi’s Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat for high school students every summer. Hagan has been drawn to poetry since…

Study abroad offers students the opportunity to live in another country for months at a time, to experience different cultures, foods, languages and people and to visit historical landmarks or even neighboring cities and countries.

Sarafina Bush ’12 majored in French and minored in dance at Adelphi, but she found her true calling designing costumes for student productions performed in the Adelphi University Performing Arts Center. That path took her to New York City, where she worked in costume design and productions such as Pass Over and MJ the Musical. Now she’s been nominated for a…

A rising senior conducting research on retinal imaging; a trilingual future speech-language pathologist; and a doctoral student who brought social work to an orphanage in Kenya—our three Fulbright Scholars share their stories.

Undergraduate and graduate students presented STEM and liberal arts research, music and dance performances, original literature, and computer science and gaming demonstrations at our 17th annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference. It is always a uniquely empowering Adelphi experience.

Opportunity to teach in the Madeira Islands honors her Portuguese heritage.

When Louise Geddes, PhD, associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Adelphi, and Valerie M. Fazel, PhD, instructor of English at Arizona State University, attended the Shakespeare Association of America annual conference in New Orleans in 2016, they were struck by the sights and sounds of an elaborate jazz funeral held in honor of the 400th anniversary of the playwright and poet's death.

For many people, the word archaeology conjures up visions of researchers digging up old things like ancient tools or pottery.

There's something different about Swirbul Library: The wall at the entrance, outside the Innovation Center, has gone from blank to brilliant, displaying a stunning mural, courtesy of the Department of Art and Art History, specifically the Mural Arts Workshop class.

Mirirai Sithole has been working steadily since she graduated from Adelphi University in 2012 with a BFA in theater. Her acting credits include numerous off-Broadway productions, including School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Play. On television, she's had roles in Black Mirror, Broad City, and Russian Doll—and season two of the Natasha Lyonne series is now available on Netflix.

Come this fall, Adelphi students will have access to a host of new and refreshed facilities designed to enhance learning, personal development and well-being.

Courses in jazz and blues literature and race and gender in film added to African, Black and Caribbean Studies offerings.

Our newest Newman Civic Fellow, Caio Gomes, is an environmentalist and student leader, who speaks five languages. We are committed to nurturing student leaders who want to find and create solutions for challenges in society.

In honor of National Poetry Month, alumni of Adelphi's MFA in Creative Writing program were asked to share excerpts of their favorite poems and what they mean to them.

There's a certain surge of hopefulness that can accompany news of scientific advances, a sense that doomsday might be averted. We want to believe that disease and environmental devastation can be sidestepped, and that science will take us there.

Jasur Shukurov appears to be your average college senior at Adelphi.

The results from Adelphi's 2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Outcomes Report are in: Not even a global pandemic can keep Adelphi's award-winning Center for Career and Professional Development career educators from preparing students for lifelong personal and professional success.

Adelphi junior Dhruv Gupta has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program scholarship. A special program of Fulbright Canada, the award provides summer internship opportunities for 50 top-ranked American undergraduate students interested in pursuing advanced research in their academic discipline.

Our expert on the United Nations and European Union explains how global decisions made in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine will affect future decades. The insights from Katie Laatikainen, PhD, professor and acting chair of political science, are compelling.

Reminiscing about the famed late artist and Broadway creator Jonathan Larson ’82, colleagues and professors remember his time at Adelphi. And we look at how Adelphi will continue to lead in arts education beyond our 125th year.

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“[Perkins] insisted New York politicians visit factories and mines across the state to see the conditions themselves.”—Robert Linné, PhD, professor of education and coauthor of The New York City Triangle Factory Fire (Images of America) Professors Frances Perkins and Annie Marion MacLean, PhD, colleagues in Adelphi College’s fledgling sociology department in the early 20th century,…

As a child and teenager, Zachary Fallon, now Lucy Fallon, loved chemistry and knew this was what she wanted to major in.