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Adelphi Students to Showcase Scholarship and Creativity at Virtual Conference—AKA Research Day
CategoriesPublished:Each spring, the Adelphi community comes together to celebrate student scholarship and creativity during the annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference.
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Published:This op-ed appeared in the February 1 issue of the publication Academic Leader and is used here with permission. As a physicist, I spend time thinking about different ways to measure things. As we reach the COVID-19 pandemic’s one-year mark, we should take an opportunity to reflect on the progress, successes and failures of the…
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Published:Pharmaceuticals save human and animal lives, but when they end up in our waterways, they present a dangerous form of pollution.
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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…
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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.
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Published:In 2016, two ÇÑ×ÓÊÓÆµ anthropology faculty members, working in Alaska with student collaborators, found a virtually complete, 14,000-year-old tusk of what may have been one of the last woolly mammoths on the Alaska mainland. At the time, it was thought to offer clues as to why the mammal later went extinct.
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Published:Demystifying blockchain, Bitcoin and other digital money matters
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Published:A well-known scholar of issues in East Asian politics and international relations, Vincent Wang, PhD, dean of Adelphi's College of Arts and Sciences, continues to be a highly sought-out speaker and presenter.
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Published:Studies of endocrinology in Chilean rodents shed light on human health.
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Published:According to the World Health Organization, half of the world's population will be living in water-stressed areas by 2025, creating a dire need for improved waste recycling and water purification systems. Scientists around the world are searching for efficient energy sources to harness for this purpose—among them, Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, PhD, associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi.
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A newly published book by an ÇÑ×ÓÊÓÆµ political science professor and a London School of Economics (LSE) international relations professor has been awarded the 2020 Friends of Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS) Biennial Book Award. Group Politics in UN Multilateralism (Brill, 2020), edited by Katie Laatikainen, PhD, professor of political science…
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Last fall, Shoshanah Tarkow '06 brought OnWords, an interactive augmented reality (AR), poetry experience, to life at the 2019 Fall Arts Festival. Since then, two Adelphi seniors, now alumnae, have taken the app to the next level as part of their senior capstone project.
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Aaren Freeman, PhD, associate professor and graduate coordinator of the environmental studies program, has been awarded a grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to study kelp. The story is highlighted by Innovate Long Island.
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Research by Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, professor of anthropology, revealing one of the most complex brain surgeries performed in ancient Greece, is featured in the Daily Mail.
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Published:Anthropologist Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, discovers skeletal remains treated by a complex form of brain surgery in ancient Greece.
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Anthropology Professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD, has documented one of the earliest complex brain surgeries performed in ancient Greece. His research is featured in Phys.org and several outlets around the world.
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ÇÑ×ÓÊÓÆµ introduces a BS in Environmental Science program to the newly renamed Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences.
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Current junior Areeba Khalid came to Adelphi planning to major in math, but a Harvard-MIT internship the summer after her first year set her on a path to medical research.
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Published:Dr. Michael D. D'Emic reveals the Majungasaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur, replaced its teeth every couple of months.
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Published:When Alyssa Booth, now in her senior year, was trying to decide on a major, she wasn't sure which one was right for her. She wanted to choose a major that could take her across the globe, so she decided on anthropology. Little did she know that she "picked the perfect field" and would spend this past August in Japan learning more about an indigenous Japanese people, the Ainu.
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Carolyn Bauer, PhD, assistant professor of biology, is taking her students both far and near. As a researcher, she has been awarded $136,611 of a $400,000 grant from the National Science Foundation's Office of International Science and Engineering to bring her Adelphi students to Chile.
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Since 2015, seven faculty and administrators from Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health have been inducted into the prestigious New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM). On November 7, 2019, two more of Adelphi's own joined their ranks: Maryann Forbes, PhD '99, and Keiko Iwama, PhD '18.
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Published:Dr. Weida's research examines the intersections between textiles and feminism in many art movements.
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Through years of detective work with faculty from several different departments at Adelphi, Anagnostis Agelarakis, PhD and his team were able to determine why the woman was buried in such an unusual manner. In the process, they challenged long-held beliefs about the role of women in ancient Greece.