天美传媒

Beginning in Fall 2023, 天美传媒 will offer a new interdisciplinary, 22-credit Museum Studies program to current and prospective undergraduate students.

Philosophy may be seen as an area of academic speculation, but Shawn Kaplan, PhD, associate professor of philosophy and director of the Ethics and Public Policy program, researches how moral concerns affect current real-world issues.

Zahin Ritee is a physics scholar, a leader, a high achiever鈥攁nd an award-winning singer. Now she's been named a Barry Goldwater Scholar for excellence in STEM.

Ryan Wallace, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Studies and Sciences, has received a federal grant to tackle the threats acidification and harmful algal blooms pose to Long Island Sound ecosystems and organisms.

The poet William Blake may have decried how the muses鈥攖he "Fair Nine"鈥攈ave forsaken poetry, but the art form continues to thrive at Adelphi.

When Shana Caro, PhD, joined the Adelphi faculty in Fall 2022 as an assistant professor of biology, she had a pressing priority. 鈥淚 wanted to locate a place where I could do fieldwork that was close to campus so that I could easily bring students from campus to help with my research.鈥�

Polina Minchuk Macklin '12 is sharing her technical theater expertise with Adelphi students and alumni.

How do you get to Sesame Street? Design your own major in puppetry and take it to your dream career in Broadway鈥檚 Winnie the Pooh, on Sesame Workshop鈥攁nd even on a Super Bowl commercial featuring Cookie Monster.

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…

To study theater at 天美传媒 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…

天美传媒 is a welcoming choice for its more than 1,000 international students from 72 countries. Lately, a number of Mongolian students have chosen to pursue their educations at Adelphi. 鈥淏y coming to Adelphi, our Mongolian students have entrusted their futures with us,” said Vincent Wang, PhD, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.…

Students new to Adelphi will have expanded First-Year Seminar (FYS) options this fall, when a pilot program of interdisciplinary offerings launches. Designed to enhance opportunities for community building and provide a multifaceted approach to subject matter, each course follows a cohort model with classes led by two to four professors from different academic disciplines. Students…

Jan-Henry Gray, assistant professor of English and director of Adelphi’s MFA in Creative Writing program, sat in on Professor Emerita Judy Baumel’s Forms of Poetry graduate course in Spring 2021 as a way to revisit and rediscover poetic forms. It was during this 鈥渞efresher” course that he wrote the earliest draft of 鈥淕hazal of Oranges,”…

March 2023 is an exceptional month to view fine art from our community. Faculty and alumni artwork鈥攊n oil, sculptures, sketches and watercolor鈥攅xplore diverse topics and facets of the human experience. Here is your guide to inspiring works of art around the Adelphi campus鈥攁s well as online.

Christopher Storm, PhD, provost and executive vice president, has announced the honorary degree recipient and keynote speaker for Adelphi’s 2023 Commencement ceremony: entrepreneur and humanitarian Hamdi Ulukaya, CEO of Chobani. A leader in the food manufacturing industry, Ulukaya built Chobani on the foundation that it would do well by doing good. He was raised in…

Two Adelphi students have been selected to represent the University as United Nations youth delegates. This year’s representatives are Sarah Delannoy, a graduate student majoring in social work, and Nino Burjanadze, an undergraduate student majoring in political science. They will join over 550 young people from 100 countries across the globe benefiting from the program,…

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…

You won't find the dinosaur known as Xixianykus terrorizing people in Jurassic Park.

Kirsten Ziomek, PhD, associate professor and director of Asian studies, has been recognized with a fellowship for research on Japan in World War II. Her expertise on forced labor and colonial soldiers brings a new understanding of the Asian-Pacific operations.

A collaboration between two faculty members and 10 undergraduates provides valuable new information about HVI reagents.

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…

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…

Research shows that CBD and other plant extracts could revolutionize psychological treatments.

On the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, an artist revisits personal loss and a national tragedy.

In Spring 2022, Associate Professor Jacqueline Olvera, PhD, became director of Latin American Studies.

Many consider the American South as the place where the struggle against Jim Crow laws, school segregation and civil rights took place. Yet, racism was just as deeply rooted in the North鈥攁nd in Boston. Despite its reputation as the historic 鈥渃radle of liberty鈥� and headquarters of the abolitionist movement, racial conflict exploded in Boston in…

In 2020, Carolina Cambronero Varela 鈥�09 and adjunct faculty member and artist Argie Agelarakis, MA 鈥�00, began working on a special project鈥攖o harness the power of art in support of social activism. Together, with the critical support of Stephanie Lake, PhD, director of Adelphi鈥檚 criminal justice program, they inaugurated聽Artivism聽in the spring of 2021.

Longtime Adelphi political science faculty member Regina Axelrod, PhD, died on November 3, 2022, with a legacy as an esteemed professor, campus leader, and faculty and student advocate.聽

Carole Katz-Fetner 鈥�68 honed her leadership and communications skills as an English major at Adelphi and had a powerful mentor and lifelong friend in Dean Emerita Ruth S. Harley 鈥�24, 鈥�50 (Hon.), alumna and namesake of our University Center in Garden City, New York.

The Hunter Performing Arts Scholarship will help propel the careers of drama majors in Adelphi鈥檚 Department of Theatre.