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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.
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More than $100,000 was raised in support of women鈥檚 leadership programs.
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To study theater at 依依社区 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…
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Kelly Gorman '12, '15, lived her dream nursing job as a critical care flight nurse with Northwell Health's SkyHealth helicopter venture for two years and now she's expanded her dream-job focus to encompass being a mobile stroke unit ambulance nurse.
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Bharat Bhis茅, MBA 鈥78, believes Adelphi students should have global exposure to other countries, cultures and economies鈥攁nd he funded an all-expenses-paid study tour to India to prove it. Meet the students who benefited from this extraordinary inaugural trip.
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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聽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 zone.…
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Music Teacher LuAnna Lasso '08 Shows Her Fifth-Grade Choir How to Dream Big鈥攁nd Win Big鈥擜ll Year
CategoriesPublished:Just two days before Thanksgiving last fall,聽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 and…
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Remembering Duncan Edward Walton, PhD '56: Derner Institute's First Black Doctoral Graduate
CategoriesPublished:The Adelphi and Derner communities have lost a crusader for racial equity. Duncan Edward Walton, PhD '56, died on September 30, 2022, at his home in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts. He was 94.
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Greg Bouris asked 200 high school athletes to lift their left foot off the floor. All gamely followed his instructions, leaning on teammates for balance in the Ruth S. Harley University Center鈥檚 main ballroom on January 6. Then Bouris, lecturer and director of 依依社区鈥檚 undergraduate sport management program, quipped: 鈥淣ow you鈥檙e all starting off the new year on the right foot!鈥 The room erupted into adolescent groans, but his point was well received.
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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.
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Mark Grossman, MD, chief of sports medicine and arthroscopy at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island, has been head team physician at 依依社区 since 2002.
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Supporting a Uniquely Inclusive Community聽
CategoriesPublished:With a generous gift of $25,000, Deborah Viola 鈥84, PhD, established the endowed Daniel Viola Family Scholarship for Neurodiversity.
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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.
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The Hunter Performing Arts Scholarship will help propel the careers of drama majors in Adelphi鈥檚 Department of Theatre.
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Honors College alumna Camille Pajor 鈥09, MBA 鈥16, shares her inspiring life story and explains how her career brought her to the war-torn Ukrainian border to assist refugees. It鈥檚 a story of determination, compassion and strength.
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The next event in the Great Minds, Great Conversations series鈥"Sprinting Toward Success With Two Legendary Adelphi Olympians"鈥攚ill feature Olympians and Adelphi track alumni June Griffith Collison '81, MBA '84, and Dennis Collison '80.
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Isuri Wijesundara '18, is a perfect example of how an arts education at Adelphi can lead graduates to careers as working artists. The combination of strong professors, talented classmates, the proximity of New York City, and a legacy of accomplished, supportive alumni guides a student's journey from their first day to beyond graduation.
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When Bharat Bhis茅, MBA 鈥78, CEO and founder of Bravia Capital, established a distinctive new program for the Levermore Global Scholars program at 依依社区, he said one of his objectives was to help students learn to be critical thinkers.
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Little America, an acclaimed anthology series on Apple TV+, is inspired by the true stories of U.S. immigrants. All eight episodes will become available on December 9 on Apple TV+. And the third episode, 鈥淭he 9th Caller,” is about a young Sri Lankan woman who is played by聽Isuri Wijesundara ’18. Like the title character, Wijesundara…
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Christy Mulligan, PsyD: Helping Troubled Youth and Sharing Her Knowledge With Her Students
CategoriesPublished:Christy Mulligan, PsyD, assistant professor of school psychology, researches how to help young people with selective mutism and those who have sexually harmed others, specifically targeting the inequalities within our juvenile justice system.
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When Jonathan Jackson, PhD, started his role as director of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Center for Psychological Services, he thought it was one of those positions he might grow into鈥攁nd 36 years later, he thinks he might have done just that.
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In August, Monica Pal, PhD '13, became director of Adelphi's Center for Psychological Services and director of Practicum Training鈥攕tepping into the shoes of her former professor, Jonathan Jackson, PhD, who retired after 36 years in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.
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鈥淣o matter how much information there is in Google, one needs the ability to ask questions, because education is an interactive experience. I believe in hands-on learning and mentorship programs.鈥
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Catherine Eubanks, PhD, who joins the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology faculty as a professor, is enthusiastically including her students in her research, which is focused on repairing ruptures in therapist/patient relationships.
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Emily Ladau '13 has been speaking up for people with disabilities for most of her adult life.
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This fall, Adelphi proudly welcomed a renowned alum back to campus. Eduardo Vilaro '85 is the CEO and artistic director of Ballet Hisp谩nico, the largest Hispanic arts organization in the United States.
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Lance A. Gumbs '93, whose tribal name is Fierce Eyes, walks in two worlds.
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Cara Lynch ’12聽has made mural magic again, this time in Long Beach, New York. Lynch’s particular brilliance is not merely eye-catching, site-appropriate public art. She has been聽creating public聽art聽since she graduated from Adelphi and, last semester, began teaching as an adjunct in the Department of Art and Art History. She also includes the community when she…
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Samuel Fremd 鈥69, born in a displaced persons camp in Germany at the end of World War II, left a monumental gift to our College of Nursing and Public Health. Made in honor of his mother and the nursing care she received, the gift has helped make 2022 a record-breaking fundraising year for Adelphi.
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Laura Marciano 鈥12
CategoriesPublished:Adelphi was a great stepping stone to the successful career I have today.