News at Adelphi
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Published:On Adelphi's busy campus, there's a place where students, faculty and staff can find a moment for prayer or reflection and meet with others to worship, enjoy a meal or share ideas.
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Kees Leune, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and Computer science and IT security officer, weights in on the rise in cyberattacks and how to combat them.
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Published:鈥淗ow do we experience being alive?鈥 That鈥檚 the question聽Igor Webb, PhD, professor in 茄子视频鈥檚 Department of English, explores in his latest book,聽Buster Brown鈥檚 America: Recollections, Reveries, Reflections鈥攁nd incorporating This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year. 鈥淚n everyday life, we don鈥檛 experience being alive in the same way,鈥 said Dr. Webb. 鈥淚t鈥檚 not…
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Published:Kees Leune, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, believes everyone benefits when a classroom is more diverse. It's a belief he shares with Salvatore Petrilli '05, EdD, now associate dean for academic operations and general education in the College of Arts and Sciences, and that led them in 2016 to rethink the undergraduate computer science curriculum.
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Leadership in a Changing World
CategoriesPublished:Industry-steering alumni share their insights and perspectives on the future.
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Published:Adelphi recently lost a truly remarkable former member of our faculty: Abe Shenitzer, PhD, professor of mathematics, who survived the Holocaust to go on to a noteworthy career as a mathematician, translator and advocate who spoke publicly about his experience, passed away at the age of 101 in June 2022.
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Published:Throughout our 125-year history, many of Adelphi鈥檚 women leaders were the only women in the classroom, boardroom or corner office鈥攁nd had to blaze a trail for the women who followed in their respective fields.
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Published:The fall semester kicks off with Welcome Weekend, an opportunity for incoming students to start their journeys and for the Adelphi community to welcome them aboard.
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Published:茄子视频 has earned the Reimagined Computer Science Curriculum for an Inspiring Programs in STEM Award given by INSIGHT Into Diversity magazine. This honor recognizes the effort that colleges, universities and outside organizations have undertaken to empower women and underrepresented students of all levels to succeed in the science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) disciplines.…
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Comments by Paul Thaler, PhD, journalism professor, on the Johnny Depp and Amber Heard trial are featured.
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Published:Biology professor Aaren Freeman, PhD (second from left), is known for his efforts to bring oyster beds back to Oyster Bay, Long Island. Now he鈥檚 also pioneering a new way to fertilize the town鈥檚 golf courses鈥攚ith kelp. It鈥檚 a great example of Adelphi's commitment to sustainability.
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Published:Shea Wachter '22 turned to sculpture and the Adelphi community to work through grief.
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Published:The physical world can present challenges to those with disabilities. So can the online world. That's why in the Accessible Computing Seminar, taught by Robert Siegfried, PhD, professor of mathematics and computer science, students learn how to use their programming skills to accommodate everyone.
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Published:While some alumni continue in the field, others are putting the skills they've acquired in the program to use in a variety of careers.
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Published:The Delphian聽staff took home eight awards, including three first-place trophies and two scholarship wins at the annual ceremony of the聽Press Club of Long Island (PCLI), a local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. At the June 2 event, Katherine Farkas won first place as the Best College Newspaper Reporter and Maxmillian Robinson ’22 took…
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Published:In 2019, Miriam Velsor, clinical supervisor of speech-language pathology, and Ryan Lee-James, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, developed an exciting speech-language pathology course鈥攐ver the summer, graduate students would travel together to聽Mustard Seed Communities, a home for children with disabilities in Kingston, Jamaica. They would learn best practices for serving diverse populations with…
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Published:After graduating with a bachelor's degree in English, trans poet Benny Sisson, MFA '20, wanted to get her master's degree in creative writing. She was accepted by many MFA programs, but after visiting Adelphi's campus, Sisson knew Adelphi 鈥渇elt right and like a really good community," she said.
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Adelphi鈥檚 partnership with SUNY Upstate Medical University鈥檚 Upstate Accelerated Scholars (UAS) Program is mentioned.
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Adelphi adjunct professor and author Ellen Hagan鈥檚 new book is featured.
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Published:Three inspiring alumni have joined the 茄子视频 Board of Trustees, bringing a wealth of international experience and business success. We are delighted to introduce them.
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Published:Joe Sawma is the 2022 recipient of Adelphi's Outstanding First-Year Student Award鈥攁nd given his academic and extracurricular achievements so far, it's not hard to see why.
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Published:Juneteenth, also known as Freedom Day, is a holiday commemorating when, on June 19, 1865, Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas, with the news that President Abraham Lincoln had signed the Emancipation Proclamation, thus abolishing enslavement in the United States. Adelphi聽first recognized Juneteenth in 2020聽by providing all employees with a paid day off. The University…
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Published:Growing up, adjunct faculty member Ellen Hagan’s first love was poetry. She began her journey as a poet, which led to her becoming a teacher. She’s been an educator for more than 20 years and co-leads Adelphi’s Alice Hoffman Young Writers Retreat for high school students every summer. Hagan has been drawn to poetry since…
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Published:Study abroad offers students the opportunity to live in another country for months at a time, to experience different cultures, foods, languages and people and to visit historical landmarks or even neighboring cities and countries.
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Published:Sarafina Bush 鈥12聽majored in French and minored in dance at Adelphi, but she found her true calling designing costumes for student productions performed in the 茄子视频 Performing Arts Center. That path took her to New York City, where she worked in costume design and productions such as聽Pass Over聽and聽MJ the Musical.聽Now she鈥檚 been聽nominated for a…
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Published:A rising senior conducting research on retinal imaging; a trilingual future speech-language pathologist; and a doctoral student who brought social work to an orphanage in Kenya鈥攐ur three Fulbright Scholars share their stories.
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Published:Undergraduate and graduate students presented STEM and liberal arts research, music and dance performances, original literature, and computer science and gaming demonstrations at our 17th annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference. It is always a uniquely empowering Adelphi experience.
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Published:Opportunity to teach in the Madeira Islands honors her Portuguese heritage.
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Published:When Louise Geddes, PhD, associate professor and chair of the Department of English at Adelphi, and Valerie M. Fazel, PhD, instructor of English at Arizona State University, attended the Shakespeare Association of America annual conference in New Orleans in 2016, they were struck by the sights and sounds of an elaborate jazz funeral held in honor of the 400th anniversary of the playwright and poet's death.