Faculty Stories

Nara Yoon, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, is doing important studies on the development of therapy resistance in advanced cancers. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, she describes how her computer mathematical models, in parallel with collaborators' molecular biology research, are revealing that resistance to targeted therapies develops gradually, in a series of adaptations to specific characteristics of the therapies.

As society inches toward greater equality for women and sexual minorities, psychologists continue to report links between prejudices against these groups and religion.

Pharmaceuticals save human and animal lives, but when they end up in our waterways, they present a dangerous form of pollution.

More than 252 million of the world's entrepreneurs are women, and an average of almost 18 percent of women globally said they too aspire to start a new business. Jason (HyunJun) Na, PhD, assistant professor of finance and economics, and Murat Erogul, PhD, associate professor of management, explore the current climate in external funding that impacts the business prospects of entrepreneurs—specifically women entrepreneurs—in their paper “A Global Review of Female Entrepreneurial Finance," which was recently published in the International Journal of Globalisation and Small Business.

Carson Fox, MFA, professor of visual arts, has completed a commissioned installation of public art in the new Charles Library at Temple University in Philadelphia. “Blue Ombre” fills a soaring arched wall with thousands of handcrafted, unique flowers in shades of blue for a spectacular effect. When Carson Fox, MFA, professor of visual arts at Adelphi…

Two professors find new ways of engaging students. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in the science of education, the college classroom is at the center of a pedagogical revolution.

Damian Stanley, PhD, assistant professor of psychology, is working with colleagues from across the country on an ambitious research project on the psychological and social effects of the pandemic.

The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) has awarded a grant to Adelphi University faculty member Aaren Freeman, PhD, for his research on kelp as part of the Long Island Sound Futures Fund.