News at Adelphi

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.

Patterns are all around us—in mathematics, in nature, in music and in art.

Even before she learned to multiply and divide, Nara Yoon, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, was flexing her mathematical skills by playing Omok (five-in-a-row), Chinese chess and 15 puzzles.

Climate change is a topic that surfaces each time there is news of the latest flood, forest fire, tornado or temperature extreme.

Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, PhD, professor of chemistry, will serve as the next director of the University’s Office of Undergraduate Research and Creative Works.

The Misery Index was introduced in the 1970s as a crude measure of economic adversity, adding together the otherwise incommensurable inflation and unemployment rates. In a similar spirit, here we introduce a rudimentary measure of monetary accommodation. Our Fed Accommodation Index is the simple sum of two components. The first is the difference between the…

Melina Giakoumis '11, PhD, a conservation biologist, science communicator and mother who advocates for women in STEM, is building an app for citizen scientists to help track—and protect—declining Asterias sea stars.

Student-faculty team examines the foundational assumptions of carcinogenesis modeling.

A student-led photovoice project empowers people in treatment to share their experiences and build community ties.

An international collaboration leads to the development of eco-friendly solar technologies

A new theoretical framework outlines best practices school psychologists can use to help LGBTQ+ youth prepare for college

For Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, professor in Adelphi's history department, archaeology is an endlessly generative practice.

New discoveries connect Indigenous Alaskans to their ancestors

A grant-funded study investigates the cognitive processes that allow us to form healthy social bonds and resist maladaptive behaviors

Different subsets of the transgender population have different rates of marijuana use when medically transitioning, new research finds

Examining factors precipitating substance abuse, from America's rural to urban communities.

Four days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Adelphi faculty hosted a teach-in to help students make sense of the conflict.

Probing the correlation between a company's political ideology and its loan terms

Adelphi professor's ethical framework offers a new way of thinking about culpability and provocation.

Assistant Professor Natalia Prado-Oviedo, PhD, is studying the genomes of elephants in U.S. zoos to increase the odds of survival for this endangered species.

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.

The fraught relationship between Central American immigrant mothers and their reunified children.

A new approach to cost-benefit analysis helps corporations reduce their carbon emissions.

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

Adelphi scientists work to restore biodiversity to local coastlines.

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.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Undergraduate Education has awarded Adelphi University and Principal Investigator Andrea Ward, PhD, associate provost for research and special projects, a $2.49 million grant for the “Ensuring STEM Student Success Through an Integrative Support Program.”

Senior Honors College student MacKenzie Pina joined a prestigious dig at Sibiloi National Park in Kenya over the summer. Her experience there is an example of Adelphi's emphasis on undergraduate research. "I could not have been better introduced to fieldwork if I had asked," she said.

The latest research on how sauropod dinosaurs reached their massive sizes, authored by Michael D’Emic, PhD, associate professor of biology, has overturned decades of thinking on the topic. His groundbreaking research has been covered globally and will appear in Scientific American in September.