News at Adelphi
- Awards and Recognition
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Adelphi University 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. “Awards from INSIGHT…
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Shea Wachter '22 turned to sculpture and the Adelphi community to work through grief.
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Adelphi University has been named one of 171 colleges and universities on Phi Theta Kappa's 2022 Transfer Honor Roll—and one of only three on Long Island in New York. PTK recognizes four-year colleges and universities that have developed strong transfer pathways leading to excellence and success among community college transfer students.
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Mary Beth Cresci, PhD, adjunct professor, who served from 2005 to 2018 as director of the postgraduate programs at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, received the Founders Award from the Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychology (SPPP), Division 39 of the American Psychological Association (APA), at its April meeting.
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For the past 19 years, Adelphi has honored students, student organizations and faculty members who have made a commitment to pursue excellence in their various endeavors.
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The Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH), an independent agency overseen by the U.S. Department of Education, recognized our Master of Public Health (MPH) program for identifying, preventing and solving community health problems. This accreditation ensures that students are receiving a high-quality education in public health.
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The Delphian staff took home eight awards, including three first-place trophies and two scholarship wins at the annual ceremony of the 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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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—over the summer, graduate students would travel together to 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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Adelphi University has achieved a five-star rating on the Campus Pride Index for 2022—a perfect score.
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Joe Sawma is the 2022 recipient of Adelphi's Outstanding First-Year Student Award—and given his academic and extracurricular achievements so far, it's not hard to see why.
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Paula Malone was looking for a child development center for her grandchildren when she discovered Adelphi University’s Alice Brown Early Learning Center (ELC). Not only was the facility close to her daughter's home, but the program also offered a modern and thoughtful philosophy of childhood education. Thus, Paula’s story with Adelphi began.
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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—our three Fulbright Scholars share their stories.
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Every year, Adelphi honors four exceptional employees with a President’s Award for Excellence and one employee with the President’s Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. According to President Christine M. Riordan, the honorees “have won the admiration of their peers and colleagues by providing an extraordinary level of service to the University, and working to advance our shared…
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Every year, Adelphi honors four exceptional employees with a President’s Award for Excellence and one employee with the President’s Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. According to President Christine M. Riordan, the honorees “have won the admiration of their peers and colleagues by providing an extraordinary level of service to the University, and working to advance our shared…
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Every year, Adelphi honors four exceptional employees with a President’s Award for Excellence and one employee with the President’s Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. According to President Christine M. Riordan, PhD, the honorees “have won the admiration of their peers and colleagues by providing an extraordinary level of service to the University, and working to advance our…
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Every year, Adelphi honors four exceptional employees with a President’s Award for Excellence and one employee with the President’s Award for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. According to President Christine M. Riordan, the honorees “have won the admiration of their peers and colleagues by providing an extraordinary level of service to the University, and working to advance our shared…
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Rebecca Luther has a lot going for her. She’s pursuing a major in sociology and minors in both psychology and marketing, in addition to being a member of Adelphi’s Honors College. She’s also the president of Adelphi’s Psychology Club. Luther came to Adelphi and joined the Psychology Club in the fall of 2019. She wanted…
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Opportunity to teach in the Madeira Islands honors her Portuguese heritage.
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U.S. News & World Report recently announced rankings of top graduate programs for 2023, including Adelphi University's programs in social work, psychology, nursing and business—adding to other recent honors, including being a U.S. News Best College among national universities.
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Our newest Newman Civic Fellow, Caio Gomes, is an environmentalist and student leader, who speaks five languages. We are committed to nurturing student leaders who want to find and create solutions for challenges in society.
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Adelphi University's 2022 Business Plan Competition will take place on Tuesday, April 26.
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The American Council on Education (ACE) has announced that Diann Cameron Kelly, PhD, associate provost for student success at Adelphi University, has been named an ACE Fellow for academic year 2022–2023.
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“[Perkins] insisted New York politicians visit factories and mines across the state to see the conditions themselves.”—Robert Linné, PhD, professor of education and coauthor of The New York City Triangle Factory Fire (Images of America) Professors Frances Perkins and Annie Marion MacLean, PhD, colleagues in Adelphi College’s fledgling sociology department in the early 20th century,…
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Emily J. (Cierley) Horcher ‘62 grew up in Brooklyn in a family who already had a rich history at Adelphi.
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There's no limit to how far an Adelphi background in soccer and a strong work ethic can take you.
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During March—Women’s History Month—Adelphi’s Student Government Association announces the recipients of the Women’s Recognition Awards. These are awarded to outstanding women who have been nominated for their leadership, service and commitment to excellence that benefit and inspire members of the Adelphi community—women such as one of the faculty recipients of the 2021 Women’s Recognition Award: Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, PhD, associate…
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Kristen Capezza, MBA '12, vice president of enrollment management and University communications, has been named one of the Long Island Herald's Premier Business Women of Long Island. The annual award recognizes women for excellence in various fields.
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Going 13 out of 14 is an impressive statistic, especially when it comes to physics. Over the last 14 years, Adelphi University's Physics Club has been recognized as an outstanding chapter by the Society of Physics Students National Office (SPS National) a whopping 13 times.
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According to healthaffairs.org, more than 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day—leading to an unprecedented spike in the number of homebound adults relying on home-based primary healthcare. Yet, today, the quality of home-based care for the nation's older adults is highly inconsistent.
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When Juan Jaramillo, PhD, associate professor of decision sciences and marketing, came to Adelphi in 2018, he brought with him more than just the skills and knowledge to help launch the Master of Science in Business Analytics program in the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business.