News at Adelphi
- Alumni Making a Difference
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Published:What happens to live entertainment production during a pandemic? It stops, then it adapts. On October 1, two alumni in the business—Joe Minoso '01 and Dana Blair '04, MBA '08—gave an online audience an inside look at the industry's struggles this year, how it's changed now that production has resumed and where it's headed.
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Published:Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.
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I am a lifelong learner and mentor thanks to Adelphi’s encouragement to continue my education and for giving me the opportunity to be who I am today.
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Adelphi taught me discipline.
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“Get involved, make the most of your time at AU, utilize your resources and remember that Adelphi will always have your back”.
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If you deeply believe that you want to be a nurse and you are willing to put in the hard work to become one, you CAN and you WILL be a nurse. Do not stop believing in yourself, you can do it.
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I realized how important it was to me to have a job where I was using my skills and abilities to make a difference in the lives of children....
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I wouldn’t be where I am in my career without the experience I’ve had and the relationships I’ve built at Adelphi.
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Adelphi changed every aspect of my life. It filled me with intellectual curiosity, and helped me to find my passion for the law. Adelphi was the foundation on which I built my career.
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I am grateful for Adelphi’s—and particularly the Honors College’s—emphasis on critical thinking within the classroom. As an attorney, I’m called upon to think analytically. Adelphi helped to lay that groundwork long before I set foot in a courtroom.
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“Adelphi University is, and continues to be, one of the best things to have happened to me in my life….The liveliness of students around campus gave the large-campus appeal for one-tenth of the volume.”
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“I would not be who I am without Adelphi….Adelphi helped me find myself; it helped me truly navigate what I wanted out of life.”
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Published:On Thursday, October 1, Margaret Lally ’82, associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will moderate “2020 and the Entertainment Industry: A Conversation with Dana Blair and Joe Minoso,” about the impact of COVID-19 and other unparalleled events on the entertainment business, with two Adelphi alumni in the know—TV host/entrepreneur Dana Blair ’04,…
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Published:A young alumna tells of her experience at Adelphi’s third Women's Leadership Conference.
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Published:Two distinguished alumni, Joseph Westphal '70, PhD, and Charles Fuschillo '83, joined the Adelphi University Board of Trustees in October 2019. Both men bring considerable experience in areas such as politics, diplomatic relations, academia, public service and leadership.
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Adelphi alumni are change makers, healthcare professionals, industry innovators and inspiring leaders who are all similar in one way: They were inspired by their experiences in the University's classrooms. Five leaders explain how their career paths were shaped.
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Published:Nursing alumna Betty L. Forest '47, PhD, '10 (Hon.), has paved a successful future for advancement and world-class excellence in the Adelphi University College of Nursing and Public Health.
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On Sunday, August 16, Adelphi lost a beloved alumna: Claire Kantoff Shulman ’46, one of our first nursing graduates, who went on to become the first woman elected Queens borough president, a role she held for 16 years. Major media outlets throughout the region paid tribute to her extraordinary life, including The New York Times, the Daily News, the New…
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The first work by the newly formed Adelphi Alumni Playwrights Group (AAPG) is coming to a Zoom near you! On Tuesday, September 1, the group will present Buffering…, an inaugural evening of musings inspired by a simple prompt: Write a monologue about the coronavirus that's not about the coronavirus.
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Published:Leonard Achan '99, healthcare executive and entrepreneur, is being recognized for his outstanding leadership in New York state during and prior to the coronavirus pandemic, by Crain's New York Business and Healthcare Leaders of New York (HLNY).
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Published:On July 15, 2020, Adelphi lost Marjorie Weinberg-Berman, MS, '61, trustee emerita, who revitalized the Department of Speech and Hearing in 1986.
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Published: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.
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Published:Harpist Skyla Budd '13, guitarist Daniel Moreno '13 and flutist Philip Lauto '15 were Adelphi music majors who became inspired to form a trio after performing “Seven Meditations on Tibet” by Carmen Moore—a piece that, according to Budd, “required the unusual instrumentation of a harp, guitar and flute. Due to that performance, we all realized what an interesting and unique sound we had and formed Trio Delphi.”
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Published:Malika Grayson ’11, PhD, is an application portfolio manager at Northrop Grumman, a member of the 2018 10 Under 10 and the second Black woman to obtain a PhD in mechanical engineering from Cornell University. She’s also a speaker, educator and an advocate for women of color in the STEM fields. Now she’s featured in Wall of Wonder:…
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Last fall, Shoshanah Tarkow '06 brought OnWords, an interactive augmented reality (AR), poetry experience, to life at the 2019 Fall Arts Festival. Since then, two Adelphi seniors, now alumnae, have taken the app to the next level as part of their senior capstone project.
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Published:Alumna Viktoriya Laskina, a registered nurse who is working on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic, has been given the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses by Mount Sinai Queens Hospital as reported by QNS.
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Nearly a Century of Service and Experience Among College of Nursing and Public Health Advisory Board
Published:The thirteen College of Nursing and Public Health Advisory Board members have amassed nearly a century of service to the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi.
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Published:Adelphi alum Sydney Diaz ’17 shares their story of being cast in the new Ghostbusters film with the LI Herald. The film is set for release this summer.
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Published:The Long Island Press has named President Christine Riordan and three alumni, Kevin O’Connor ’84, Rick Lewis, MBA ’91, and Paule Pachter ’78, MSW ’79, to its 2020 Power List.
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After years of trying to change his dishonorable discharge to honorable, the late Needham Mayes ’78 succeeded and will have a military burial, says The New York Times.