News at Adelphi

Across history, dogs have served as loyal companions and protectors. Today, however, dogs are increasingly valued as therapeutic and service partners.

The Fall 2025 semester brought a surge of achievement across Adelphi Athletics. Highlighted by a breakthrough championship on the links, Adelphi continued to elevate its tradition of excellence.

Through strategic partnerships, networking events and practice-focused education, the College of Nursing and Public Health ensures that graduates land their ideal positions.

Adelphi isn’t just a university; it’s a powerful force for change, extending far beyond the Garden City campus. It’s a place where dedicated alumni, armed with their skills and passion, answer the call to give back, actively shaping the health of the communities they serve.

It’s not every day that a packed university audience gets to hear what award-winning actor Sarah Jessica Parker’s favorite books were as a child—or to have a unique poem typed out just for them, or to learn how a neuroscientist became a bestselling author, or even why an investigative reporter was drawn to a 50-year-old serial killer case.

For many students, study abroad means trips to well-known European destinations. But at Adelphi, students traveled farther east —to experience the history and cultures of Vietnam and Thailand.

Faculty member advises the first PBS Kids show headlined by a character with autism

As in the past eight years, this October’s Spirit Weekend brought the Adelphi community together, reuniting old friends and introducing new traditions.

Adelphi’s cheerleading team, which competes annually in the college championships, took root in 1977 thanks to the passion, persistence and school spirit of determined alumnae Waju Akiwowo ’80 and Alvena Morgan Clark ’79, MSW ’80.

The Spirit Spot Showdown, an artistic competition in which winners earn a reserved campus parking spot for a semester, successfully debuted at Adelphi University’s 2025 Spirit Weekend.

The Adelphi University's women's golf team captured their first-ever Northeast 10 Conference Championship title on Wednesday afternoon, as all five golfers finished in the top-15 of the two-day event.

According to the Innocence Project, 63 percent of the wrongfully convicted individuals the organization helped to exonerate were victims of eyewitness misidentification and 29 percent gave false confessions.

With excursions to New York City and mentoring by graduate students from India, participating students gained invaluable insights and firsthand exposure to Indian business and culture.

Mario Baez, who spent 30 years at the United Nations, shared his international experience and his vast knowledge of Latin America with students as the Levermore Global Scholars program's 2025 Spring Fellow.

Professor of health and sport sciences Meredith Whitley, PhD, believes the youth sports system in the United States is broken. She is now leading a project to develop evidence-informed mental health guidelines that have the potential to transform the way youth sports programs are run.

Herbert Liberman ’61 has spent a lifetime chasing possibilities and turning bold ideas into successful ventures across education, business, nonprofit and beyond.

An educational experience abroad is an invaluable one, and no one understands that better than Anastasia Dakis ’22. She spent seven days performing optometry services in Senegal, a country in West Africa.

Shota Mikautadze, a rising senior who came to Adelphi from the Republic of Georgia, is this year’s recipient of a Newman Civic Fellowship. Awarded by Campus Compact, the fellowship is an annual honor and yearlong program for select student leaders from across the country who are committed to making positive change.

The brainchild of physics department chair Matthew Wright, PhD, the inaugural Cosmic Pathways conference explored the many directions a physics degree can take students.

Arvind Kajaria ’87 came to Adelphi from India in 1985, and what he experienced as a student at the University was truly eye-opening. Since earning his bachelor’s degree in business, he’s applied what he learned both in and beyond the classroom and established numerous businesses, including one of the world’s largest ecard websites, 123Greetings.com, Inc.

Jack Abramowitz '66, a retired Grumman aerospace engineer, spoke with Chabad Jewish Student Group president Hannah Gold. He explained his commitment to sharing his experiences with Nazi Germany.

Launched in 2023 to promote understanding among Adelphi students, the award-winning program has now expanded to include students and leaders from four other universities.

Adelphi University’s second annual Writers and Readers Festival offered a uniquely heartfelt keynote this year with The Books That Built Our Souls, a conversation featuring legendary actress and publisher Sarah Jessica Parker, her mother Barbara Forste and bestselling author Adriana Trigiani. Introduced by renowned novelist and Adelphi alum Alice Hoffman, the event was a celebration of literary masterpieces that shaped all of us, the audience included.

Adelphi University has announced a $100,000 grant from the M&T Charitable Foundation, the philanthropic arm of M&T Bank. The grant will be used to assist formerly incarcerated women find well-paying careers in healthcare.

At Adelphi’s eighth annual Women’s Leadership Conference attendees were empowered and inspired throughout a day of career-focused programming.

More than 350 students, alumni, professionals, industry leaders and community members were encouraged to “empower, lead and inspire” at Adelphi University’s eighth annual Women's Leadership Conference on Saturday, March 29.

Don’t be afraid to take risks and get out of your comfort zone. Bet on yourself. The cream always rises to the top.

Under the second Trump administration, the social work profession is facing unprecedented challenges—new executive orders have upended traditional methods of social work practice, cutting communities off from vital resources and leaving practitioners to scramble.

“Making myself available as a mentor and perhaps a role model to aspiring students was an easy and a quite natural extension of my everyday endeavors.”