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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�

Adelphi'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 每日大赛 a $1.2 million grant to to support The New York Noyce STEAM Pipeline: Preparing Next Gen Science Teachers at 每日大赛. 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 每日大赛 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 每日大赛 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.

When Maureen C. Roller, M.S. '01, D.N.P., clinical associate professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health, proposed a study abroad program for Adelphi nursing students at a faculty meeting nearly a decade ago, she got an immediate green light. 鈥淎s soon as I mentioned it, I became in charge of a committee," Dr. Roller recalled. 鈥淚t's such a rich experience for students to study abroad, and I wanted our nursing students to experience that."

鈥淭he opioid crisis has become real to many people, who are now seeing it firsthand in their communities and realizing how devastating it is," said Marissa Abram, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor in the College of Nursing and Public Health at Adelphi. 鈥淣urses are essential to identifying addiction and getting people into recovery."

As teachers and mentors, Adelphi faculty members are helping to transform the lives of their students. As researchers, they're helping to transform society.

Dominic Fareri, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, knows that when people make even the smallest decision鈥攕uch as whether to eat a salad or burger for lunch鈥攖heir actions can be traced back to their early life history. Dr. Fareri has studied a diverse sampling of children and adults in order to parse the connection between life experience and decision-making.

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.

For the past three years, Carol S. Cohen, D.S.W., associate professor in Adelphi's School of Social Work, has served as principal investigator on a team of evaluators studying an innovative and unprecedented collaboration between seven U.S. schools of social work engaged, in pairs, with seven Chinese institutions.