News at Adelphi

Frances Perkins went from professor of sociology to President Franklin Roosevelt’s secretary of labor—and a lifetime of pioneering social justice reform. Her story inspired novelist Stephanie Dray to make her the subject of her latest book, Becoming Madam Secretary (Park Books, 2024), which is coming out just in time for Women’s History Month.

Adelphi University's Meredith Whitley, PhD, professor of health and sport sciences and research fellow at the Centre for Sport Leadership and Stellenbosch University, was a collaborator in the study.

Krista Aliscio ’23 anchored the women’s soccer team throughout its trip to the Division II Final Four this fall while working on her master's degree in school psychology. Jamie Yonker ’22 continued studies for her master's degree in exercise science even as she led Adelphi’s volleyball team back to the NCAA tournament. Both share how much work it took to excel as athletes and NE-10 Conference honor roll students.

Assistant Professor Won Seok Chey, PhD, uses traditional Korean games—from gonggi to tae kwon do—to support culturally responsive teaching and learning.

Here's a look at our top stories for each month.

This new degree will enable students to improve the health and well-being of people as nutritionists and dietitians.

For the first time ever, Adelphi University was ranked in the Times Higher Education (THE) 2024 World University Rankings by Subject.

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

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.

The new Journal of Critical Study of Communication and Disability is paving the way for open, global communication built on equity.

Youth from marginalized communities should have wider exposure to sports, said Meredith Whitley, PhD.

Thanks to a grant from the Spencer Foundation, two faculty members from the Ruth S. Ammon College of Education and Health Sciences will use technology to study the emotional atmosphere of school buildings.

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.

Adelphi senior Samuel Kang is the winner of two national honors at this year’s Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival for his play, what we will be. He reflects on the continued leadership of Adelphi’s theater program.

Sometimes the lessons that educators set out to teach their students turn into an opportunity to share knowledge with a wider audience.

A study outlines ways to encourage student inquiry

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

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

Early on the morning of April 10, seven Adelphi students gathered in the Woodruff Hall conference room to finalize their vision for a reimagined community center that was environmentally sustainable, profitable and accessible to typically underserved communities.

A rising senior conducting research on retinal imaging; a trilingual future speech-language pathologist; and a doctoral student who brought social work to an orphanage in Kenya—our three Fulbright Scholars share their stories.

Adelphi’s long-running partnership with a school district in a neighboring community has led to a federal grant to create innovative summer and after-school programs designed to meet the needs of students and their families. Two Adelphi faculty members are leading this high-impact five-year effort.

Nothing makes a more positive impact on student learning and success than well-prepared teachers, according to Teacher Residencies: Supporting the Next Generation of Teachers and Students, a 2019 report issued by the office of New York City Comptroller Scott M. Stringer.

Across New York City’s diverse neighborhoods, schools struggle to attract and retain the talented teachers that students deserve. To address this critical issue, the New York City Department of Education’s Teaching Fellows Program awarded Adelphi University a $9 million grant in April. The Teaching Fellows Program at Adelphi, which will start in January 2022 and run for…

The New York City Department of Education (NYC DOE) has awarded Adelphi University a $9 million Teaching Fellows Program grant. The six-year grant, $1.5 million each year, will prepare an estimated 900 teaching fellows for New York City public schools at Adelphi—about 150 per year.

Interested in earning a master's degree in teaching—with a paid internship? Graduate enrollment is now open for Adelphi University's New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline Program. Seven scholarships are available for candidates applying for the 2021–2022 school year.

Adelphi’s STEP and CSTEP programs are helping to prepare diverse students from local high schools and Adelphi for inspiring careers in science, technology, engineering and math fields.

Children, teens and adults in neighboring communities depend on the therapists in the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders for speech-language and hearing evaluations and interventions. The Center has more than 100 speech and hearing client visits per week. The Center is also a clinical training ground for students pursuing a master’s in speech-language pathology…