News at Adelphi

Two new deans, Joanne Corbin, PhD, and J. Christopher Muran, PhD, are ushering in an era of change, fresh perspectives and new initiatives at Adelphi. Meet them both, and see what’s ahead for our high-ranking social work and psychology schools.

The 2023 Women's Leadership Conference, Themed “Defining Leadership for Our Lives, Our Careers and Our Communities," Broke Attendance Records While Aiming to Break Glass Ceilings and Preconceived Ideas

Adelphi University excels in several 2024 U.S. News & World Report rankings including Best College, Social Mobility, Best Value, First-Year Experiences and Undergraduate Nursing.

Whether they're caring for patients, working in underserved communities, solving computational problems, launching new businesses or teaching overseas, Adelphi's students are supported by those who came before them.

Adelphi University has been ranked a 2024 Best College in the United States by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ)/College Pulse.

Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology adjunct professor Matt Aibel relates performance to therapy, teaching—and is rediscovering the joys of being back on stage.

Women have long had to navigate being shamed for discussing their sexual desires. Derner's new assistant professor wants to help women openly express, acknowledge and understand their feelings.

J. Christopher Muran, PhD, began his new role as dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology on August 7. Prior to joining Adelphi 14 years ago, Dr. Muran was chief psychologist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Beth Israel Medical Center (now Mount Sinai) for 15 years and has held numerous academic…

Dear Students, As we prepare for the exciting move to our new location in Brooklyn, we want to provide you with information and resources to make your transition as seamless as possible. As we’ve shared previously, our new location at 179 Livingston Street (floors five to seven) at the St. Francis College (SFC) campus in…

Adelphi University has named J. Christopher Muran, PhD, the new dean of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology. Dr. Muran will begin his role on August 7.

The TD Charitable Foundation grant will support critical mental health services offered by Adelphi's Derner Hempstead Child Clinic.

HealthRight International gives human rights award to faculty- and PhD candidate-led effort to assist immigrants fleeing homeland persecution.

Adelphi’s Class of 2023 celebrated their accomplishments with family and friends at the University’s 127th Commencement ceremony on May 23 at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York.

Adelphi University’s nursing, business and public health programs have once again been included in the U.S. News & World Report rankings of top graduate programs for 2024.

After 12 years of leadership, groundbreaking research and numerous academic publications and awards, the dean of the Adelphi Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology is stepping down. Please join us in celebrating his extraordinary accomplishments.

Good things come to those who wait, the saying goes, but our perception of how quickly time passes varies from person to person. Are people who perceive time as passing quickly more willing to delay gratification?

Christopher Storm, PhD, provost and executive vice president, has announced the honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker for Adelphi’s 2023 Commencement ceremony: entrepreneur and humanitarian Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani. A leader in the food manufacturing industry, Ulukaya built Chobani on the foundation that it would do well by doing good. He was raised in a dairy-farming…

A new study co-led by Adelphi University Assistant Professor of Psychology Damian Stanley, PhD, provides a window into the psychological, social and emotional impacts of the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Adelphi and Derner communities have lost a crusader for racial equity. Duncan Edward Walton, PhD '56, died on September 30, 2022, at his home in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. He was 94.

It's been another great year of academic achievement and recognition at Adelphi.

Christy Mulligan, PsyD, assistant professor of school psychology, researches how to help young people with selective mutism and those who have sexually harmed others, specifically targeting the inequalities within our juvenile justice system.

When Jonathan Jackson, PhD, started his role as director of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Center for Psychological Services, he thought it was one of those positions he might grow into—and 36 years later, he thinks he might have done just that.

Karolina Lempert, PhD, joined the faculty of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology as an assistant professor of psychology this fall, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychology and Penn Memory Center.

In August, Monica Pal, PhD '13, became director of Adelphi's Center for Psychological Services and director of Practicum Training—stepping into the shoes of her former professor, Jonathan Jackson, PhD, who retired after 36 years in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.

Catherine Eubanks, PhD, who joins the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology faculty as a professor, is enthusiastically including her students in her research, which is focused on repairing ruptures in therapist/patient relationships.

There are, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), as many as 3 million Americans who suffer from chronic stuttering.

This fall, Adelphi welcomed a new set of dedicated, diverse and knowledgeable faculty members.

Recent works by faculty members Robert Mendelsohn, Joel Weinberger, Jairo N. Fuertes, Jacques Barber and J. Christopher Muran burnish the Derner School’s reputation as a world leader in psychoanalytic research.

A collaboration between a Derner professor and a doctoral student of psychology examines the connection between attachment anxiety and loneliness.