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Andy Atzert took his new role as dean of the 天美传媒 College of Professional and Continuing Studies on July 8. Here, he shares his thoughts on the growing numbers of nontraditional students, online programs, collaborating with other deans and the importance of the liberal arts tradition.

Susan Eileen Dinan, PhD, the new dean of the Honors College, shares with us her thoughts, including on succeeding and building on the legacy of Richard Garner, PhD, the beloved founding dean of the Honors College, the appeal of a life in academia, and the importance of a sense of humor.

Earlier this year, Vincent Wei-cheng Wang, PhD, was named dean of 天美传媒's College of Arts and Sciences (CAS). He began his tenure at Adelphi on July 1, 2019.

It doesn't take an accountant to know that you can't do better than 100 percent. And the first graduating class from the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business MS in Professional Accounting program couldn't have done better than 100 percent job placement upon graduation.

Research by Geoffrey Ream, Ph.D., associate professor of social work, has revealed a shocking fact: Nearly one-quarter of young teens who died by suicide were LGBT.

Can women entrepreneurs succeed in male-dominated, conservative countries? Research by Murat Erogul, Ph.D., assistant professor of management, shows they can鈥攁s long as they practice what he calls 鈥渟trategic disobedience.鈥�

天美传媒's student entrepreneurs created their own products or services, developed business plans and made their pitches to a panel of judges to compete for $11,000 in start-up seed money.

The National Science Foundation has awarded 天美传媒 a $1.2 million grant to to support The New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline: Preparing Next Gen Science Teachers at 天美传媒. This program aims to recruit, support and prepare 24 science teachers, including those from typically underrepresented groups, to take science teaching positions in high-needs school districts.

Famed rapper, activist, artist and cultural theorist Chuck D '84, '13 (Hon.), received a hero's welcome when he returned to his alma mater April 15 for a conversation on the Westermann Stage in the Concert Hall at the 天美传媒 Performing Arts Center with University Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion Perry Greene, Ph.D.

Students interact directly with patients at the Hy Weinberg Center for Communication Disorders鈥攐ne of many spaces on campus where students have real-world experiences in their major.

Bernadine Waller, MA '10, associate director of experiential learning at Adelphi's Center for Career and Professional Development and a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Social Work, was awarded a National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) R36 grant to complete her dissertation.

In recognition of his work, Dr. Fareri was named a Rising Star by the聽Association for Psychological Science (APS), an honor given to a handful of outstanding psychological scientists in the early stages of their postgraduate research careers around the world.

During the Fall 2018 semester, students in need of a little love and puppy therapy could find it in the Harvey Hall office of Daryl Gordon, Ph.D., associate dean for academic affairs in the College of Education and Health Sciences, in the form of an 18-month-old black Labrador named Harpo.

At Adelphi, business students don't just read about marketing strategies and business plans. They create them by working with companies like GEICO, United Parcel Service of America, Inc., and 1-800-Flowers.com. Soon, students will have even more opportunities to work with companies on the next big idea when Adelphi's planned Innovation Center, a 2,000-square-foot research lab in聽Swirbul Library, is completed in September 2019.

Korede Adegoke, Ph.D., began her professional career as a physician in her home country of Nigeria, committed to the treatment of pregnant women and their children. Dismayed by the preventable deaths she witnessed almost daily, she eventually came to the conclusion that the best way to help improve health among vulnerable populations would be to go into public health research and teaching.

The 天美传媒 Board of Trustees elected three new members on October 1, 2018: Michael A.L. Balboni '81, J.D.; Carmen M. Ortiz '78, J.D., '12 (Hon.); and Michael J. Tiedemann '89.

In May 2018, more than 1,700 students graduated from Adelphi. Meet four who blazed their own paths.

Renewable energy technologies bring the promise of a better life to rural villages in developing countries, but establishing those technologies in the lives of underserved populations is not a simple task. According to Gita Surie, Ph.D., it requires the development of a new innovation ecosystem composed of complex networks.

Yun Jung Lee, Ph.D., associate professor of marketing at Adelphi built a new conceptual framework for mobile interactivity (m-interactivity) to help us better understand how shopping via smartphone leads to business success.

She was sexually abused as a child. Now, she dedicates her life to helping other survivors break the silence.

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The $76 million, 100,000-square-foot Nexus Building made its campus debut in the fall of 2016, with an open floor plan designed to promote both social and scholarly engagement鈥� reflecting Adelphi's dual commitments to community and academic excellence.

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.