News at Adelphi

Communications Professor Joan Stein Schimke, is a writer, producer and director of films. Her spot in a competitive mentorship program will help advance her career, advance women in filmmaking and share her experiences with her students.

The Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (Adelphi PAC) kicks off its 2024 spring season with exciting musical, dance and theatrical performances for the whole family.

A history major looks at how the Adelphi community—and everyone—can all honor Native American heritage, culture and history this month and year-round.

In October, the Adelphi community gathered for one of our favorite traditions, the Fall Arts Festival.

When the Vietnam National Fine Arts Museum decided to refresh the way it presents itself to the public, it tapped David Pierce, assistant professor of art and art history, to help lead the project. This designer, painter, filmmaker and animator spent the summer in Hanoi to begin working with the museum to develop a new logo, signage, brochures and other materials.

Latinx street art illuminates the immigrant experience and history of labor in Texas, countering societal erasures.

Adelphi faculty explore a century of American immigration through art, music and film.

One painter finds beauty—and despair— in our world's changing landscape.

MS student Samuel Sey spent the summer conducting research as one of Adelphi’s competitive Jaggar Community Fellows. Unique to Adelphi, Jaggar internships advance student careers with paid internships while supporting important nonprofit missions.

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.

Samuel Abrams ‘23 drew imaginary creatures as a child, then translated them into sculptures at Adelphi. They're now inspiring young visitors of the Cradle of Aviation Museum.

The Adelphi University Performing Arts Center (PAC) has announced a lineup for the upcoming fall season, including exciting musical, dance and theatrical performances from Broadway hits to Shakespeare's classics.

The members of the Mad Professors come from the dance, math and psychology departments, united by a passion for playing classic rock of the '60s, '70s and '80s.

Rachel McDermott '05 is taking care of business as a stuntwoman, actress, producer and new mom. Catch her in Extraction 2 on Netflix.

Prestigious grant supports new production of University Professor Paul Moravec's Underground Railroad opera.

This annual festival showcased 16 films of various genres, all directed by Adelphi undergraduate students.

Showstopping performances by alumni and students joined heartfelt tributes to Adelphi standout supporters as the University honored its rich legacy and contributions to the arts at the 23rd annual President's Gala, An Evening for the Arts at Adelphi: Legends and Legacies, on June 10 at the Garden City Hotel.

Beginning in Fall 2023, Adelphi University will offer a new interdisciplinary, 22-credit Museum Studies program to current and prospective undergraduate students.

How do you get to Sesame Street? Design your own major in puppetry and take it to your dream career in Broadway’s Winnie the Pooh, on Sesame Workshop—and even on a Super Bowl commercial featuring Cookie Monster.

To study theater at Adelphi University is to find accomplished working professors, friends-for-life classmates, the proximity of New York City and a legacy of successful, supportive alumni. Adelphi trains “people of the theater,” said Maggie Lally ’82, associate dean of faculty programs and associate professor of theater. “The professional experience of our faculty and their…

March 2023 is an exceptional month to view fine art from our community. Faculty and alumni artwork—in oil, sculptures, sketches and watercolor—explore diverse topics and facets of the human experience. Here is your guide to inspiring works of art around the Adelphi campus—as well as online.

Just two days before Thanksgiving last fall, The Kelly Clarkson Show announced to the world that The Fairview School Choir from P.S. 14, a Queens, New York, elementary school, had been named the 2022 NBC Star Choir. That meant that a couple of weeks later, the students, dressed in festive red and green, were singing and…

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an artist revisits personal loss and a national tragedy.

In 2020, Carolina Cambronero Varela ‘09 and adjunct faculty member and artist Argie Agelarakis, MA ‘00, began working on a special project—to harness the power of art in support of social activism. Together, with the critical support of Stephanie Lake, PhD, director of Adelphi’s criminal justice program, they inaugurated Artivism in the spring of 2021.

"A Nation of Others," the latest work by Pulitzer Prize-winning University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA (left), explores the lives of refugees arriving at Ellis Island on a single day in 1921. It recently premiered at Carnegie Hall.

It’s been another outstanding year for Adelphi University in the news–locally, nationally and around the world.

Little America, an acclaimed anthology series on Apple TV+, is inspired by the true stories of U.S. immigrants. All eight episodes will become available on December 9 on Apple TV+. And the third episode, “The 9th Caller,” is about a young Sri Lankan woman who is played by Isuri Wijesundara ’18. Like the title character, Wijesundara…

Cara Lynch ’12 has made mural magic again, this time in Long Beach, New York. Lynch’s particular brilliance is not merely eye-catching, site-appropriate public art. She has been creating public art since she graduated from Adelphi and, last semester, began teaching as an adjunct in the Department of Art and Art History. She also includes the community when she…