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The United States insisted the Taliban hand bin Laden over if they wanted to gain diplomatic recognition—a moment, Jonathan Cristol, PhD, argues, that represented another consequential fork in the road.

Kirsten Ziomek, Ph.D., is co-director of Adelphi's Asian Studies program and the author of Lost Histories: Recovering the Lives of Japan's Colonial Peoples (2019). She is currently working on her second book about World War II and Japan's colonial peoples.

Alexander Heyl, PhD, is researching the evolution and functioning of signaling pathways, particularly in the origin of a class of plant hormones called cytokinins. He holds a PhD from the University of Cologne, Germany.

A discovery in Utah by Michael D'Emic, PhD, assistant professor of biology shows that flowering trees grew in North America 15 million years earlier than previously thought.

Current senior Paul Maurantonio's Super Duper Fighting Game won big fans—and an Outstanding Presentation Award—at Adelphi's annual Research Day last April.

Are pesticides aiding an invasive species? ReginaLena McManus ’19 conducted research to see if a tolerance to pesticides might be helping Asian shore crabs push out native crabs on Long Island shores.

Last September, assistant professor of biology Michael D. D'Emic, PhD, was given a two-week deadline to publish a paper in the journal Science Advances on newly discovered fossils. Needing a graphic to accompany his findings, he turned to Sae Bom Ra '19, then a senior who had created her own major in scientific illustration.

This year’s Research Day on April 17 was Adelphi’s biggest yet—it grows every year. Learn what was new at our 16th annual event, and meet some of the students who presented their research.

Indigenous peoples often appear as caricatures in official histories and popular narratives of Japan’s 20th-century empire. A new book by assistant professor of history Kirsten Ziomek, PhD, paints a fuller picture of cultures that have long been marginalized.

This academic year, ÇÑ×ÓÊÓƵ received four grants totaling nearly $1.7 million for STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics)-related projects. Three grants were awarded from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the fourth grant was awarded from the American Chemical Society.

Damian Stanley, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, has developed a test that may lead to the identification of subcategories of autism and the development of new interventions and/or treatments.

Professor Anagnostis Agelarakis, Ph.D., is widely renowned for his archaeological work in Greece, as well as here at Adelphi, for bringing his students with him to gain hands-on experience with the summer Field Research program in Greece.

Margaret Gray, associate professor of political science, is quoted by the New York Times about indoor greenhouse farm labor conditions.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Fareri was named a Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science (APS), an honor given to a handful of outstanding psychological scientists in the early stages of their postgraduate research careers around the world.

A study by Professor Geoffrey Ream Ph.D. on suicide rates in LGBTQ youth is featured by many media outlets including Reuters and Huffington Post.

Scientists from around the world travel to the famous CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to probe the fundamental structure of the universe using the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on earth—the Large Hadron Collider. Last summer, they were joined by an Adelphi senior, Muhammad Aziz, a physics major who spent six weeks as part of a longer 10-week internship with the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

Born in a small town in Brazil and spending his teenage years in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood controlled by a drug cartel, Walace Kierulf-Vieira grew up a world away from Adelphi.

Dirt covered the hands of Queens, New York, native Julio RuizDiaz last summer as he excavated artifacts in the Alaskan wilderness.

Born in Vietnam and moving to the United States at age 8, Lani Chau was determined to use art and science for the greater good through the field of renewable energy. That journey started with experiences in physics, chemistry and the arts at Adelphi.

Biology professor James K. Dooley, Ph.D., is passionate about protecting endangered marine life and creating a better future for our planet. Throughout his 45 years at Adelphi, he has been recognized nationally, internationally and locally for his work in environmental preservation.

In the age of iPhones, Twitter and Snapchat, parental anxiety over media corrupting their children seems more pervasive than ever. But to Margaret Cassidy, Ph.D., associate professor and department chair of communications, it's just another recurring episode in a phenomenon stretching back hundreds of years.

As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.