News at Adelphi

The Learning and Writing Centers are now offering expanded services for students.

Our nationally recognized Bridges to Adelphi program quickly launched online support for students on the autism spectrum, offering consistency during this time of COVID-19 uncertainty.

Students who are first in their family to attend college can face different kinds of pressures. Adelphi’s personalized resources are designed to help them adjust and succeed.

Adelphi University’s Bridges to Adelphi program and the Department of Health and Sport Sciences have joined forces for a collaborative mentorship program focused on promoting comprehensive physical activity for neurodiverse students.

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.

Already named the NE10 Woman of the Year, lacrosse star and classroom standout Chelsea Abreu '19 also became the first Panther to be named a finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year award.

Adelphi is committed to transforming students' lives. Our U.S. News & World Report ranking as a Top Performer on Social Mobility reflects our success in meeting that goal.

After two successful years, Adelphi's Women's Leadership Conference is returning for a third time.

Our faculty, students, leadership and staff are active participants in the greater Long Island region, rolling up their sleeves and offering their expertise to solve problems, provide services and improve the lives of our neighbors (including oysters). Another benefit? Valuable, hands-on experience for our students.

Created five years ago to help students of color, Adelphi's expanding mentoring program has just received a prestigious Eduventures Innovation Award. The honor is only one measure of the program's success.

For the second year in a row, Adelphi University has been honored with an Eduventures Innovation Award. This time, it is for the success of its Mentoring Program for first-year students. The award was formally presented at the Eduventures Summit on June 6 in Boston.

At Adelphi, a wide range of student clubs and organizations helps students make the most of their college experience, connecting with other like-minded students and engaging in a rich campus life.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

“It's been a very productive and exciting experience working with him and my friends in the math and computer science department."

At Adelphi, business students don't just read about marketing strategies and business plans. They create them by working with companies like GEICO, United Parcel Service of America, Inc., and 1-800-Flowers.com. Soon, students will have even more opportunities to work with companies on the next big idea when Adelphi's planned Innovation Center, a 2,000-square-foot research lab in Swirbul Library, is completed in September 2019.

How can women who face gender-based violence create conditions of safety and well-being in their lives? That is the question that animates the research efforts of Stavroula Kyriakakis, Ph.D., associate professor in the Adelphi University School of Social Work.

When Chotsani West, M.A. '07, returned to Adelphi in 2014 to start the University's Mentoring Program, her task was to help improve the retention rate of students of color.

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.

Each year, students in Dr. Susan Zori's "Nursing Care of the Older Adult" class work in small groups to develop inventive products that could improve the lives of the elderly and address unmet needs.

At Adelphi, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.