News at Adelphi
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Published:I have been slowly sharing the news of Nick Petron, MA ’70’s retirement after 50 years at Adelphi, the first 10 as professor and director and approximately 30 as chair of the Department of Theatre. Once they get over their surprise, many acknowledged that “it’s the end of an era.” Nick was my instructor and…
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Published:To study theater at 茄子视频 is to find accomplished working professors, friends-for-life classmates, the proximity of New York City and a legacy of successful, supportive alumni. Adelphi trains 鈥減eople of the theater,” said Maggie Lally ’82, associate dean of faculty programs and associate professor of theater. 鈥淭he professional experience of our faculty and their…
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Published:During the pandemic, Paul Thaler, PhD, professor in the Department of Communications in the College of Arts and Sciences, didn’t set out to write a horror tale that pays homage to the American writer, poet, editor and literary critic Edgar Allen Poe. But as Dr. Thaler delved more deeply into his writing project, he brought…
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Published:When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, three Adelphi alumni鈥攊nternational students Aleksandar Aleksiev ’11, Gabriel Hardy-Fran莽on ’14, and Camille Pajor ’09, MBA ’16鈥攓uickly decided they couldn’t stay on the sidelines. All three made humanitarian trips to the border鈥攁nd inside Ukraine鈥攖o bring aid and to help refugees escape and get resettled away from the war…
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Music Teacher LuAnna Lasso '08 Shows Her Fifth-Grade Choir How to Dream Big鈥攁nd Win Big鈥擜ll Year
CategoriesPublished:Just two days before Thanksgiving last fall, The Kelly Clarkson Show announced to the world that The Fairview School Choir from P.S. 14, a Queens, New York, elementary school, had been named the 2022 NBC Star Choir. That meant that a couple of weeks later, the students, dressed in festive red and green, were singing…
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Published:On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an artist revisits personal loss and a national tragedy.
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Published:The Hunter Performing Arts Scholarship will help propel the careers of drama majors in Adelphi鈥檚 Department of Theatre.
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Published:This fall, Adelphi proudly welcomed a renowned alum back to campus. Eduardo Vilaro '85 is the CEO and artistic director of Ballet Hisp谩nico, the largest Hispanic arts organization in the United States.
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Published:Cara Lynch ’12 has made mural magic again, this time in Long Beach, New York. Lynch’s particular brilliance is not merely eye-catching, site-appropriate public art. She has been creating public art since she graduated from Adelphi and, last semester, began teaching as an adjunct in the Department of Art and Art History. She also includes…
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Published:Recent communications alumna Ana Lyz Rodriguez 鈥�22 created five powerful video profiles of Hispanic students at Adelphi. Watch their stories, and read about her own story as a filmmaker and advocate.
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Published:Shea Wachter '22 turned to sculpture and the Adelphi community to work through grief.
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Published:There's something different about Swirbul Library: The wall at the entrance, outside the Innovation Center, has gone from blank to brilliant, displaying a stunning mural, courtesy of the Department of Art and Art History, specifically the Mural Arts Workshop class.
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Don鈥檛 Stop The Music
CategoriesPublished:University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA, scored a Grammy nomination and thousands of new fans for the oratorio Sanctuary Road, even as performances went virtual during the pandemic. He won a Pulitzer Prize for Tempest Fantasy in 2004.
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Published:Internationally renowned dancer Ruth St. Denis founded the Department of Dance at Adelphi in 1938, one of the first dance departments at an American university. Now a cornerstone of our performing arts, it has close ties with the Paul Taylor and Martha Graham Dance Companies.
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Published:Music students Dori-Jo Gutierrez and Kevin Lubin turn Walt Whitman's poetry into song for the poet's 200th birthday celebration.
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Published:Alexa Annese has always had a passion for dance.