Adelphi University, NY—From My Desk: News From President Riordan

Dear Friend,

As our campus fills with the colorful blooms of the spring season, excitement is building for another outstanding graduating class at Adelphi. I’m thrilled to announce that this year’s Commencement speaker and honorary degree recipient is humanitarian and entrepreneur Hamdi Ulukaya, founder and CEO of Chobani. Our community will be inspired by his self-made career story and the leadership, compassion and philanthropy he models.

This month I’m proud to share that a unique nursing and social work program at Adelphi won the John L. Blackburn Award from the American Association of University Administrators. We also highlight the return of our study abroad programs, the flexibility of our MS in Business Analytics and the terrific career of Dean Jacques Barber, PhD, who is retiring after 12 years of leading the Adelphi University Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.

We are gearing up for our annual Giving Day on April 19 and Research Day on April 25. Our Giving Day will celebrate 1,896 minutes of giving in honor of our founding year, and I hope you will join us in transforming students' lives and building a brilliant future together.

All the best,

Adelphi is making local, national and global news:

Inside Higher Ed, An Emerging Index of Inclusive Universities

An op-ed by Reem Khamis, PhD, professor of communication sciences and disorders and director of the Neurophysiology in Speech-Language Pathology (NSLP) Lab at Adelphi, shares ways to build equity among faculty members.

LongIsland.com, Business Survey Shows Half of LI Employers Expect to Expand Their Workforce in 2023

Findings from the Long Island Economic Survey 2023, co-conducted by the Adelphi Robert B. Willumstad School of Business, showed overall optimism about projected revenue and net profits for 2023.
City & State New York, The 2023 Higher Education Power 100

President Christine Riordan has been named one of New York’s most influential college and university leaders for 2023.

Newsday, TikTok explained for parents: The latest on trends, challenges and potential dangers
John Drew, associate professor of communications, is quoted extensively about popular social media video platform TikTok.

“Our study found that there is no one way to grow a dinosaur, that the largest dinosaurs sometimes took as little as 10 years or so to get to their truly immense sizes, and some others would have taken decades.”

—Michael D’Emic, PhD, paleontologist and associate professor of biology, in an NPR interview about his recent study published by Science. The study has been featured in more than 60 news outlets, including Reuters and Phys.org.

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