Undergraduate Summer Research and Fellowships
Adelphi connects undergraduate students with a variety of summer research opportunities—from summer research fellowships with faculty mentors through the SPARK Center for Undergraduates and the Honors College to external research fellowships that fund student efforts.
Becoming an Undergraduate Summer Research Fellow
Applications for the Undergraduate Summer Research Fellowships are open through March 28, 2025. If you have any questions or would like to learn about other opportunities, please email the SPARK Center at spark@adelphi.edu.
Each fellowship provides a $4,000 stipend for 8 weeks of full-time research/creative work, including laboratory and fieldwork as appropriate.
Sponsored projects will culminate with a written report and presentation at the 2026 Adelphi University Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.
2025 Undergraduate Research and Creative Works Summer Fellowship
Congratulations to Adelphi University’s 2025 cohort of undergraduate summer research fellowship recipients!
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vira Bangaru | Raghida Abdallah Yassine | Business Management | AI-Driven vs. Traditional Retention Strategies: Employee Perceptions and Their Impact on Engagement, Career Growth, and Turnover |
| Sophia Minich | Orion Duckstein | Dance | Theme Development Through Choreographic Research |
| Kelly Johnson | Nathan George | Psychology | Role of solo games in maintaining older adults cognition |
| Candice Garwood | Patricia Lespinasse | African, Black and Caribbean Studies |
“Milk Teeth” (A Vignette Collection on Loss & Coming of Age) |
| Maheen Naqvi | Lee Stemkoski | Computer Science | Interactive 3D Global Vizualization Software |
| Arianna Samaroo | Damian Stanley | Neuroscience | Social computational phenotypes in psychopathology |
Honors College Summer Research Fellows
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aruzhan Bissenbay | Brian Stockman | Mathematics | Reading Between the Residues: Correlated Mutations in Early Proteins |
| Mickeylia Walker | Brian Stockman | Biology major, African, Black, and Caribbean Studies minor | No Flavodoxin, No Life: An Ancient Protein Gateway to Understanding the Origins of Life |
| Nadirah Peakes | Brian Stockman | Computer Science | Proteins Lost to Time: Recovering PFrebiotic Proteins with AI |
| Elias Nauth | Michael Moore | Psychology major, political science minor |
Trauma in the First Responder Population |
| Hemish Naidoo | Emily Cowan | Neuroscience major, minors in Asian studies and biology | Quantifying Linguistic Differences in the Verbal Communication of Memory Across Negative Social Contexts |
| Keara Malazarte | Shana Caro | Neuroscience major, public health minor | The Impact of Individual Habituation on Collective Decision-Making Thresholds in P .bicarinata Ant Colonies |
| Salvatore Bonasia | Dominic Fareri | Neuroscience | The role of social rejection in risky decision-making |
| Mitchell Pozovskiy | Sean Bentley | Physics | Maximizing Violation of Bell Inequality using Compensation Methods |
| Troy Cofie | Mariano Torras | Economics major, minors in mathematics and political science | Social Embeddedness and Legal Institutionalism: Alternative Frameworks for Economic Policymaking |
| Vincent Calvagno | Michael LaCombe | History major, Italian minor | Aquatic Appropriation: Water and Property in Colonial New England |
Landesberg Family Summer Research Fellow
| Student Name | Mentor Name | Major | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| Myat Noe Khin | Brian Stockman | Biochemistry | Retro Design of Flavodoxin with Only Early Amino Acids |