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Carson Fox, MFA, professor of visual arts, has completed a commissioned installation of public art in the new Charles Library at Temple University in Philadelphia. “Blue Ombre” fills a soaring arched wall with thousands of handcrafted, unique flowers in shades of blue for a spectacular effect. When Carson Fox, MFA, professor of visual arts at Adelphi…
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Nara Yoon, PhD, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science, is doing important studies on the development of therapy resistance in advanced cancers. In a paper published in the journal Nature Communications, she describes how her computer mathematical models, in parallel with collaborators' molecular biology research, are revealing that resistance to targeted therapies develops gradually, in a series of adaptations to specific characteristics of the therapies.
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Published:More than 252 million of the world's entrepreneurs are women, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor's (GEM)Â 2018/2019 Women's Entrepreneurship Report. Perhaps inspired by these women who have taken on the business world, an average of almost 18 percent of women globally said they too aspired to start a new business within the next three years.
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Published:A flame is a symbol of life and of death, love and desire, and destruction. Eternal Flame is the title of a virtual exhibition with a strong Adelphi connection. The exhibit is curated by Cara Lynch ’12, MA ’15, and includes works by Lauren Skelly Bailey ’12; Carson Fox, professor of art and art history;…
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Dear Adelphi Community, I’m pleased to announce the appointment of Carolyn Springer, PhD, associate professor of psychology, to the role of Director of African, Black and Caribbean Studies. In this position, Dr. Springer will lead this program’s important work exploring the experiences of Black people, emphasizing a broad and interdisciplinary range of scholarly perspectives and courses of…
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Dear Adelphi Community, As your faculty and administrators, we share this joint statement with our community. There have been recent incidents of students using racial slurs, hateful comments, and reported threats of violence and retaliation on social media—and sadly, this is not the first time these issues have occurred. To those among us who have…
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Published:Adelphi’s disaster epidemiologist and clinical associate professor K.C. Rondello, MD, shares his expert insights and predictions about how the COVID-19 virus might alter the track of the virus.
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A response to Jemima Kelly’s opinion piece “In uncertain times, confident-sounding experts are the ones we should question†from Mariano Torras, PhD.
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Brian Wygal, PhD, associate professor of anthropology and director of the environmental studies and sciences program, is quoted in Mashable about the impact of climate change. The story also appeared on MSN.com.
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Solving Real-World Business Problems
CategoriesPublished:Students in the Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Text Analytics course worked with LS ELECTRIC America, as part of the Live Cases project.
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Published:Who is better prepared for success in college: first-generation students, meaning the first in their families to pursue higher education, or non-first-generation students, those whose parents and perhaps earlier generations in the family attended college?
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Published:When GM, the auto manufacturer, is planning the next quarter's production of its Sierra Denali pickup, it needs to be able to accurately predict the timely delivery of parts and components—from its other units and external suppliers. The company does this by using a computer simulation or a model which tries to mimic the real world. In reality, managers often don't have accurate or complete data to build the model. Eunji Lim, PhD, assistant professor of decision sciences, has addressed this problem by developing an algorithm that takes care of the problem of insufficient data.
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Published:Nearly 250 million people in India do not have access to electricity. Creating the infrastructure to connect them to the power grid is a costly and challenging project. Gita Surie, PhD, professor of management, has been studying how an ecosystem for providing renewable energy for the world’s poorest people living in rural areas can be created that will both safeguard the environment and improve social and economic conditions in India.
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Published:Annually, worldwide, 1.3 million tons of garbage go into landfills. Reducing such waste is one reason behind the growth of “alternative giving,†where people share and exchange products instead of throwing them away. Fan Liu, PhD, assistant professor of marketing, and Zachary Johnson, PhD, associate professor of marketing, studied this growing practice and found that it, enabled by social media and networks, benefits the broader society.
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Published:Climate change has been identified in many quarters as the existential crisis facing all of mankind. It has been estimated that the world needs to spend between $1.6 trillion and $3.8 trillion every year to honor the commitments of the Paris climate agreement. Robert Goldberg, clinical associate professor of finance, and Mariano Torras, PhD, professor of economics and department chair, have proposed that a fund be set up by the government to pay for the costs associated with carrying out the changes needed to halt global warming.
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Published:The trustees of the New York Academy of Medicine (NYAM) have named four professors in Adelphi's College of Nursing and Public Health (CNPH) as fellows of the academy. NYAM fellows are a community of distinguished professionals who show evidence of performance or outstanding potential in one or several health professional roles.
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Published:Adelphi instructors and students aren't only making the best of remote learning during the time of pandemic. In some cases, they're taking advantage of it and building on it.
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Published:Melissa Randazzo, PhD, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders, is taking her expertise to Uganda to train educators and therapists there.
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Published:In 2016, two ÃÛÑ¿TV anthropology faculty members, working in Alaska with student collaborators, found a virtually complete, 14,000-year-old tusk of what may have been one of the last woolly mammoths on the Alaska mainland. At the time, it was thought to offer clues as to why the mammal later went extinct.
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Published:Since childhood, Courtney Lee Weida, EdD, associate professor and director of graduate art education in Adelphi’s Ruth S. Ammon School of Education, has found the princess archetype “both captivating and problematic.†Dr. Weida partnered with her sister, Jaime Chris Weida, PhD, assistant professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (The City University of…
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Published:New research reveals the impact of leadership on new product development.
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Published:Demystifying blockchain, Bitcoin and other digital money matters
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Before the COVID-19 pandemic, approximately 12 million people were employed in the manufacturing sector across the United States. According to a 2017 survey in the journal Applied Ergonomics, around 57 percent of workers in factory settings—who often perform heavy, repetitive tasks—reported feeling fatigued at work, which can lead to reduced output, chronic injury and even…
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Published:A well-known scholar of issues in East Asian politics and international relations, Vincent Wang, PhD, dean of Adelphi's College of Arts and Sciences, continues to be a highly sought-out speaker and presenter.
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Spoiler Alert: It’s not the equipment, technology or dreaded state PE Tests
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Published:When Provost and Executive Vice President Steve Everett, DMA, talks about the wealth of talent among Adelphi's faculty, one name that emerges immediately is Pulitzer Prize-winning classical composer and University Professor Paul Moravec, DMA.