News at Adelphi

According to healthaffairs.org, more than 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day—leading to an unprecedented spike in the number of homebound adults relying on home-based primary healthcare. Yet, today, the quality of home-based care for the nation's older adults is highly inconsistent.

After a year and a half of COVID restrictions, Adelphi University celebrated the new academic year with the announcement of a major grant awarded to the College of Arts and Sciences.

When Brian Stockman, PhD, became a professor of chemistry at Adelphi University after 18 years in pharmaceutical research and development, his research didn’t miss a beat. In the well-equipped labs on Adelphi’s Garden City campus, Dr. Stockman studies trichomoniasis, the most prevalent nonviral sexually transmitted disease, together with the students he teaches and mentors. Dr. Stockman, chair…

Illuminating COVID's toll on African American mothers and children.

Rising junior Danelya Zholdasbekova's path to Adelphi was unexpected. While searching the internet for top New York business schools, the Kazakhstan native said she was attracted by descriptions of Adelphi's “close-knit, diverse community, its Honors College, scholarship opportunities, and beautiful campus and location."

As a nursing major at Nassau Community College, Will Torres, now a rising senior and first-generation college student, realized he wanted to explore other options at a four-year institution. He wanted a campus close to his Glen Cove hometown that offered small classes and individually tailored instruction. He also wanted a friendly and inclusive campus.

Adelphi University's highly ranked nursing program has a long and rich history of producing students who excel in all sectors of the healthcare system throughout the world. A testament to the program is the recent naming of Joseph Amnawah, a doctoral candidate, as a 2021–2023 national Jonas Scholar.

This spring, more than 180 Adelphi University School of Social Work students pioneered new efforts to address racial justice. Part of the University’s annual social action initiative, groups of students took an innovative online approach to the three-month project, focusing on highlighting issues such as the effects of race and racism on criminal justice, health,…

Bernadine Waller, MA '10, wears many hats at Adelphi. She is the associate director of experiential learning in the Center for Career and Professional Development and an adjunct professor in the School of Social Work, where she is also pursuing her PhD with the goal of using research to improve lives.

Geralyn (Geri) Caliendo ’84, MS ’20, and her daughter Gina Faiella ’20 are celebrating two Adelphi University graduations. Caliendo, currently assistant director of case management for Northwell Health-Long Island Jewish Medical Center, was awarded a Master of Science in Nursing Education on December 17. Faiella, a biology major and public health minor, received her bachelor’s degree in May.

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.

New insights into the impact of college sports on athletes’ voices.

The novel results of exploring heuristics, induction, working backwards, symmetry—and each other

ParentChild+ helps young children in underserved communities across 15 states. The organization's goal is to use education to break the cycle of poverty for low-income families, engaging early in life to help toddlers, their parents, and their family child care providers access a path to possibility.

It's not every day that an Adelphi graduate student gets invited to present research at a global conference in the Middle East. But that's what Joseph Brennan, MS '20, newly graduated from the College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH) Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner program, will be doing. In July 2020, he'll be presenting in Abu Dhabi—but not in person.

In January 2020, seven-third year audiology doctoral students and two clinical professors, Dr. Ianthe Dunn-Murad and Dr. Rose Valvezan had the unique and humbling opportunity to travel with the Starkey Hearing Foundation to El Salvador, Central America to provide hearing services to over 1,200 individuals with hearing loss and hearing impairments.

Brian Stockman, PhD, associate professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry and his five collaborating students—Samantha Muellers, Juliana Gonzalez, Abinash Kaur, Vital Sapojnikov and Annie Laurie Benziehas—identified an innovative approach to curing a drug-resistant parasite.

Ruth Militrano '19 won't let her past define her future.

Is it necessary to change patients' IVs every few days? Research conducted by four grad students in Adelphi's nursing program found an answer that puts standard medical practice in question.