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The college years are a time when many students get out of their comfort zones. For Pernille Gilje '18, college presented an opportunity to test the limits of life outside her comfort zone, both emotionally and geographically.

This year’s Research Day on April 17 was Adelphi’s biggest yet—it grows every year. Learn what was new at our 16th annual event, and meet some of the students who presented their research.

Lives transformed. Highlighting just a few of our outstanding students that make up ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿â's 2019 Commencement class.

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.

At Adelphi, students reap the benefits of personalized attention from their professors and all the opportunities nearby New York City holds. But according to Peter West, Ph.D.—the newly appointed associate provost for student success—there's always room to do better.

The old adage “waste not, want not" works well as a precept for resourcefulness, but a pair of Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) are taking it a step further. When they see waste, it makes them want to salvage and redirect.

Najee Hunt came to ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿âdetermined to make a difference on campus and in the community. He’s done that—and has won a prestigious Newman Civic Fellowship, an honor given to student leaders from across the country.

Studio art major Miguel Angel Puentes gained a new understanding of the power and potential of art by painting murals for patients battling serious illnesses.

Stacy Brief, a junior at Adelphi, struggled with emotional issues and thoughts of suicide as a teen. But she has channeled her struggles into helping others overcome their challenges.

Najee Hunt is a student leader who is actively helping create a diverse and inclusive culture on campus. As president of the campus organization Black Students United (BSU), he is passionate about supporting and mentoring fellow students of color. He has also expanded the organization's mission to include support of young people from the surrounding community.

Understanding how to teach our students. Adelphi's student body is the most diverse in the University's history. The "Understanding Our Students" session of the conference explored the needs and expectations of today's students and how ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿âcan meet them.

Wensley Bynoe, a senior in Adelphi's Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) program, is one of those students whose internship led to a greater desire to help those who need it. As an intern this year at the New York State Division of Human Rights, he is working on investigations into discrimination that have opened his eyes to the wide range of injustices facing New Yorkers.

As a welfare examiner for the Suffolk County Department of Social Services, Colleen Itzkowitz has spent the past 12 years of her career focused primarily on paperwork and eligibility. Now, as a graduate student in social work at Adelphi, she has an internship in addition to her job, spending late afternoons and evenings with the Emergency Unit at Child Protective Services.

Scientists from around the world travel to the famous CERN laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland, to probe the fundamental structure of the universe using the largest and most powerful particle accelerator on earth—the Large Hadron Collider. Last summer, they were joined by an ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿âsenior, Muhammad Aziz, a physics major who spent six weeks as part of a longer 10-week internship with the Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory/Duke University Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program.

When Brian Seidl arrived at ÑÇÉ«Ó°¿âas a first-year student, he had never taken a computer science course. Now, as a senior, he's working part time as a developer for Dealertrack, Inc., a company that provides software to auto dealerships.

Since 1951, Adelphi's student newspaper, The Delphian, has delivered award-winning reporting on campus events and news.

At Adelphi, students from around the world are accommodated to thrive through the International Student Services office as well as the community as a whole.

At Adelphi, a wide range of student clubs and organizations helps students make the most of their college experience, connecting with other like-minded students and engaging in a rich campus life.

You could say that junior Melissa Emilcar has a knack for medical research. After all, how many undergraduates need only a month to master a lab technique that can take researchers with doctorates six months to learn?

Born in a small town in Brazil and spending his teenage years in a Rio de Janeiro neighborhood controlled by a drug cartel, Walace Kierulf-Vieira grew up a world away from Adelphi.

Dirt covered the hands of Queens, New York, native Julio RuizDiaz last summer as he excavated artifacts in the Alaskan wilderness.

Born in Vietnam and moving to the United States at age 8, Lani Chau was determined to use art and science for the greater good through the field of renewable energy. That journey started with experiences in physics, chemistry and the arts at Adelphi.

“It's been a very productive and exciting experience working with him and my friends in the math and computer science department."

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