News at Adelphi
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English professor and author Martha Cooley wrote for the Los Angeles Review of Books analyzing the trope of missing girls in fiction books.
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Igor Webb, Ph.D., author, critic, professor, and director of the 天美传媒 Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program hosted a gathering in celebration of his latest book,聽Christopher Smart's Cat, an unusual amalgam of memoir, short fiction and lit crit.
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On Wednesday, November 14, 2018, the College Republicans and College Democrats held a well-attended debate on campus. They discussed the contentious issue of immigration.
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天美传媒 Faculty Take on the World
CategoriesPublished:The Center for International Education has two announcements in time for International Education Week, held November 12 through November 16, 2018: the recipients of the 2019 International Faculty Development Grants, and a new聽map聽documenting faculty international engagement.
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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.
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Growing up in Afghanistan under the Taliban, adjunct communications professor Mehdi Salehi saw firsthand how drones could be used for destructive purposes. Now, having fled Afghanistan, he's teaching at 天美传媒 and using drones as a force for good as the founder of his company, Drone Labs, which deploys the technology to support humanitarian work.
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Seniors Laura Rojas and Kimberly Campuzano spent this summer doing research in New Mexico and Colorado, respectively. On October 3, they gave presentations summarizing their experience and research to their audience in Blodgett Hall.
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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.
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Victoria Grinthal is a worker with Web Communications at Adelphi.
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Published:What is the right class size for graduate work in creative writing? Igor Webb, PhD, professor and director of the MFA in Creative Writing program at Adelphi, believes strongly that the answer is 10 students.
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As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.
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Science classes at Adelphi often incorporate field study. The marine biology class taught by Aaren Freemen, Ph.D., virtually revolves around it, engaging in what Dr. Freeman calls "boots in the mud type of work."
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At Adelphi, the five-hour biochemistry lab run by Professor Brian Stockman, Ph.D., is capped at 12 students who are divided into three or four groups and conduct their own, customized research projects.
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Fresh water and clean air are the most basic human needs. But according to Justyna Widera-Kalinowska, Ph.D., an associate professor of chemistry at Adelphi, both are becoming scarcer around the world, even in highly developed countries.
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Shakespeare fan fiction: self-indulgent pastime or scholarly exercise? According to Louise Geddes, Ph.D., associate professor of English at Adelphi, fan fiction鈥攕tories using characters or situations from popular works, written by enthusiasts and posted online鈥攊s just one of many internet-based activities turning Shakespeare fan studies on its head.
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A newly discovered fossil suggests that large, flowering trees grew in North America by the Turonian age, showing that these large trees were part of the forest canopies there nearly 15 million years earlier than previously thought.
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Svetla Marinova 鈥10
CategoriesPublished:鈥淎delphi gave me the opportunity to come to New York and start a brand new life. I can鈥檛 imagine who I would be if it weren鈥檛 for all the incredible experiences I was able to create at Adelphi.鈥
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Reaz Khan 鈥13
CategoriesPublished:鈥淎delphi made me understand my hidden potential.鈥
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Camille Pajor 鈥09, MBA 鈥16
CategoriesPublished:鈥淎delphi has educated me, sustained me, challenged me, built me up, and has forever enriched my life with an extraordinary network of friends, mentors, and colleagues. Vita sine litteris mors est!鈥
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Filling in History's Gaps
CategoriesPublished:Brian Wygal, Ph.D., an associate professor of anthropology at Adelphi, believes that light can be shed on the colonization of Alaska by prehistoric people through the study of microblades.
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The composer and University Professor Paul Moravec, D.M.A., has devoted his life to music, but he has another passion as well: history.
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TaLona Holbert '13
CategoriesPublished:鈥淢y time at Adelphi set the foundation for me to become a litigator and give back to my community.鈥
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Dr. Malika Grayson '11
CategoriesPublished:鈥淎delphi made me realize that you don't have to fit in a box and it's good to try new things. If there is something that you believe in, but for some reason the path isn't there or resources are unavailable, you create it.鈥
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Crispin Booker '08
CategoriesPublished:鈥淚 love Adelphi. It created so many beautiful opportunities and helped me become the man I am today.鈥
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Stop by the second floor of Blodgett Hall and you'll see a display of art guaranteed to push your emotional buttons.
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Dominic Paolo first visited Adelphi last spring when he came to campus as a player for the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) baseball team for a game against the Panthers.
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John Kulins is a worker with Endpoint at Adelphi.
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In the performing arts, triple threats who can act, sing and dance are highly sought-after. Colby Christina, 17, has been doing all that since the age of 2, appearing in theater and dance performances and even as the host of her own TV show.
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Alex Trujillo grew up in Reno, Nevada, but he's known since October 2013 that he wanted to go to college in another state. That is when a deadly shooting at his middle school forever changed his outlook.