News at Adelphi

Research by Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, professor of anthropology, revealing one of the most complex brain surgeries performed in ancient Greece, is featured in the Daily Mail.

Anthropologist Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, discovers skeletal remains treated by a complex form of brain surgery in ancient Greece.

Anthropology Professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, has documented one of the earliest complex brain surgeries performed in ancient Greece. His research is featured in Phys.org and several outlets around the world.

Adelphi University introduces a BS in Environmental Science program to the newly renamed Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences.

Adelphi research is cited in The Epoch Times story about a new proposal by California Gov. Gavin Newsom that may stop fitness testing due to potential bullying and discrimination implications for disabled and nonbinary students.

From winning a national championship to a viral commencement proposal, we're counting down some of our favorite moments of the year

With the end of 2019 in sight, and with the thankful spirit of the holiday season, I'd like to take a moment to reflect on the winning year our entire Adelphi community has made possible.

Carolyn Bauer, PhD, assistant professor of biology, is taking her students both far and near. As a researcher, she has been awarded $136,611 of a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering to bring her Adelphi students to Chile.

Research by Geoffrey Ream, PhD, associate professor of social work, is featured in the Chicago Tribune on anti-bullying training being required in states across the U.S. The article, originally published in the Associated Press, also appears in many other outlets.

Since 2015, seven faculty and administrators from Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health have been inducted into the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). On November 7, 2019, two more of Adelphi's own joined their ranks: Maryann Forbes, PhD '99, and Keiko Iwama, PhD '18.

Dr. Weida's research examines the intersections between textiles and feminism in many art movements.

Through years of detective work with faculty from several different departments at Adelphi, Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD and his team were able to determine why the woman was buried in such an unusual manner. In the process, they challenged long-held beliefs about the role of women in ancient Greece.

The United States insisted the Taliban hand bin Laden over if they wanted to gain diplomatic recognition—a moment, Jonathan Cristol, PhD, argues, that represented another consequential fork in the road.

Kirsten Ziomek, Ph.D., is co-director of Adelphi's Asian Studies program and the author of Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (2019). She is currently working on her second book about World War II and Japan's colonial peoples.

As the global population ages, the number of people living with dementia is growing rapidly, along with the need for improvements in care for them. Adelphi faculty members are studying ways to give a better quality of life to patients with dementia and ease the emotional burdens of family caregivers. Here are ways that three Adelphi professors are doing that.

Alexander Heyl, PhD, is researching the evolution and functioning of signaling pathways, particularly in the origin of a class of plant hormones called cytokinins. He holds a PhD from the University of Cologne, Germany.

A discovery in Utah by Michael D'Emic, PhD, assistant professor of biology shows that flowering trees grew in North America 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

When Geoffrey Ream, PhD, associate professor in the Adelphi University School of Social Work, set out to study the variability in circumstances around suicide deaths among youth and young adults by sexual/gender identity, he didn't anticipate the media attention around one finding.