See President Riordan’s latest From My Desk message and stories below.
Each month, I share stories of how Adelphi continues growing, leading and making a difference through our mission to transform lives. I invite you to see the ways our University, students, faculty, staff and alumni are contributing to our communities and advancing their professions and fields of study. I am thrilled to share these stories with you and welcome you to be part of our University community.
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Our milestone anniversary year will conclude powerfully on Saturday, June 11, at our 22nd annual President’s Gala. Adelphi’s traditional evening of fundraising for the President’s Student Success Scholarship will, this year, proudly celebrate our University’s 125-year legacy and bold future. My stories this month illustrate how we continue to lead and transform lives.
First, please join me in congratulating all three of Adelphi’s new Fulbright Scholars!
Our latest multi-million-dollar grant will create change through a much-needed community learning center in a neighboring school district. An interdisciplinary grant is having an impressive impact on our nursing and social work students, and the children they’re working together to help. And our undergraduate and graduate students’ passion for deep inquiry and creativity was on full display at our 17th annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference last month.
I wish everyone a very happy and successful Commencement season.
All the best,
Chris
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.
Undergraduate and graduate students presented STEM and liberal arts research, music and dance performances, original literature, and computer science and gaming demonstrations at our 17th annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference. It is always a uniquely empowering Adelphi experience.
A year ago, Adelphi received a $1.92 million Interdisciplinary Education and Training Experience (IDEATE) grant. Through our partnerships with premier healthcare institutions, our nursing and social work students work together to help underrepresented children. Read what we’ve accomplished, and how children’s lives were changed.
Society demands that we are strong … as people of color in general. So when society says you cannot burst at the seams, that then signifies that we have no other area where we can be our authentic selves.