News at Adelphi

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.

Adelphi has a long-standing commitment to civic engagement and to addressing the challenges facing society. As part of this tradition, a growing number of faculty members are striving to produce research that resonates beyond academia—community-based research that may help resolve issues and enhance quality of life for marginalized populations.

Renewable energy technologies bring the promise of a better life to rural villages in developing countries, but establishing those technologies in the lives of underserved populations is not a simple task. According to Gita Surie, Ph.D., it requires the development of a new innovation ecosystem composed of complex networks.

Yun Jung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Adelphi built a new conceptual framework for mobile interactivity (m-interactivity) to help us better understand how shopping via smartphone leads to business success.

Edmund J.Y. Pajarillo, Ph.D., associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, is striving to prepare the next generation of nurses for our data-driven future.

She was sexually abused as a child. Now, she dedicates her life to helping other survivors break the silence.

“It's thinking about how science can be taught using simpler English and shorter sentences. "

The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement— reflecting Adelphi's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for Adelphi nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. “As soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. “It's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

“The opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi. “Nurses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

Dominic Fareri, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, knows that when people make even the smallest decision—such as whether to eat a salad or burger for lunch—their actions can be traced back to their early life history. Dr. Fareri has studied a diverse sampling of children and adults in order to parse the connection between life experience and decision-making.

Shakespeare fan fiction: self-indulgent pastime or scholarly exercise? According to Louise Geddes, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Adelphi, fan fiction—stories using characters or situations from popular works, written by enthusiasts and posted online—is just one of many internet-based activities turning Shakespeare fan studies on its head.

For the past three years, Carol S. Cohen, D.S.W., associate professor in Adelphi's School of Social Work, has served as principal investigator on a team of evaluators studying an innovative and unprecedented collaboration between seven U.S. schools of social work engaged, in pairs, with seven Chinese institutions.

The real-world history behind fostered children in Game of Thrones.

Adelphi Associate Professor Aditi Bandyopadhyay, Ph.D., studies the compilation of these materials, which have undergone a remarkable transformation over the past several decades.

William Cobbett was the most widely read British journalist of his era, though his name is not well known these days outside the UK. His fame lives on, uncredited, in a term that was invented to describe him.