News at Adelphi

Adelphi University's Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology will offer a certificate program in trauma treatment for licensed and certified mental health professionals. The new program will provide students with the knowledge and skills needed to serve traumatized individuals and communities.

Josephine Briones is a registered nurse who knows that technology and digital record keeping can be used to improve patient care. That's why she enrolled in Adelphi's online master's degree program in healthcare informatics.

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.

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).

Katherine Fiori, PhD, associate professor of psychology and department chair, is interviewed and her work is cited in a New York Times story about the importance of casual social interactions.

Dr. Monique Mohammed ’14, MS ’16, earned her Doctor of Optometry degree this spring. She couldn’t have done it, she said, without the support she received from the CSTEP and mentoring programs as a student at Adelphi. Read her inspiring story.

An op-ed on the rise of telehealth by Josh Altman, PhD, associate director of Adelphi’s Student Counseling Center, is featured in Modern Healthcare.

Campus Recreation continues to provide ways to stay active throughout the summer.

This new undergraduate program will emphasize working collaboratively with professionals from different fields, guided by the core competencies of ethics and values.

Children, teens and adults in neighboring communities depend on the therapists in the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders for speech-language and hearing evaluations and interventions. The Center has more than 100 speech and hearing client visits per week. The Center is also a clinical training ground for students pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology…

In an interview, K.C. Rondello, MD, clinical associate professor in Adelphi’s College of Nursing and Public Health—and national authority on disaster epidemiology—discusses the coming year.

Social distancing is helping telemedicine become the new normal. What other medical technologies may soon enter the mainstream? A. Hasan Sapci, MD, College of Nursing and Public Health assistant professor, provides some hints.

While adjusting to teaching and learning online, Jennifer Perrone finds hope during the pandemic with the birth of her son.

Throughout these past several weeks, we have continued to define our University's plans for a safe, in-person reopening this coming fall. We all look forward to safely being together again on campus.

Being at home wasn't going to stop Corrada Spatola '20 from making the most of her last semester at Adelphi. Thanks to the virtual student chats offered by various departments at Adelphi, she got to interact with her fellow students and learned how to navigate our new normal.

Kirkland Vaughans, PhD ’85, adjunct faculty member in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology and director of the Derner Hempstead Child Clinic, is quoted in a New York Times story about healing from the trauma associated with racism.

Stephen Shore, EdD, clinical assistant professor of special education, is quoted in a Spectrum story about autistic scientists who are redefining autism research.

Just before the campus closed due to the coronavirus outbreak in March 2020, the College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH) rushed to produce a batch of simulation lab training videos over a three-day span “to support our faculty when they moved to an online platform."

K.C. Rondello, MD, clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, shares his expertise in this story in Men's Health.

Damian Stanley, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, is working with colleagues from across the country on an ambitious research project on the psychological and social effects of the pandemic.

Over the past several weeks, Adelphi's leadership, faculty and staff have been actively preparing for our Fall 2020 semester. We are anxious to welcome you back but are mindful that we must do so in a safe and healthy way.