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The Delphian staff took home eight awards, including three first-place trophies and two scholarship wins at the annual ceremony of the Press Club of Long Island (PCLI), a local chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. At the June 2 event, Katherine Farkas won first place as the Best College Newspaper Reporter and Maxmillian Robinson ’22 took…

Peter Yacobellis ’05 is a change agent for the LGBTQIA+ community, working to create a safer, more inclusive and accepting environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, nonbinary and gender-fluid youths and adults.

Joe Sawma is the 2022 recipient of ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Outstanding First-Year Student Award—and given his academic and extracurricular achievements so far, it's not hard to see why.

Undergraduate and graduate students presented STEM and liberal arts research, music and dance performances, original literature, and computer science and gaming demonstrations at our 17th annual Scholarship and Creative Works Conference. It is always a uniquely empowering ¹û½´ÊÓƵ experience.

Opportunity to teach in the Madeira Islands honors her Portuguese heritage.

Mirirai Sithole has been working steadily since she graduated from ¹û½´ÊÓƵ in 2012 with a BFA in theater. Her acting credits include numerous off-Broadway productions, including School Girls: Or, the African Mean Girls Play. On television, she's had roles in Black Mirror, Broad City, and Russian Doll—and season two of the Natasha Lyonne series is now available on Netflix.

Four promising student entrepreneurs pitched original business plans to a panel of judges on Tuesday, April 26, at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's annual Business Plan Competition. The challenge, which took place in the ¹û½´ÊÓƵ Innovation Center, is a yearly opportunity for competitors to win $11,000 in prizes.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's School of Social Work doctoral candidate Jennifer Eileen Reddin Cassar has been selected to join the Fulbright Specialist Roster.

In Fall 2021, the National Black Association for Speech-Language and Hearing (NBASLH, pronounced “in bahz la" or /nbazle/) welcomed ¹û½´ÊÓƵ as its newest affiliate.

There's a certain surge of hopefulness that can accompany news of scientific advances, a sense that doomsday might be averted. We want to believe that disease and environmental devastation can be sidestepped, and that science will take us there.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's 2022 Business Plan Competition will take place on Tuesday, April 26.

Jasur Shukurov appears to be your average college senior at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ.

The results from ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's 2020 Undergraduate and Graduate Outcomes Report are in: Not even a global pandemic can keep ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's award-winning Center for Career and Professional Development career educators from preparing students for lifelong personal and professional success.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ junior Dhruv Gupta has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright Canada Mitacs Globalink Program scholarship. A special program of Fulbright Canada, the award provides summer internship opportunities for 50 top-ranked American undergraduate students interested in pursuing advanced research in their academic discipline.

There's no limit to how far an ¹û½´ÊÓƵ background in soccer and a strong work ethic can take you.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ nurtures leadership in our students. Some earn the President’s Student Leadership Award, become Levermore Global Scholars or compete in our Willumstad Leadership Scholars Program. Others shine in our local high school. We’re proud to recognize and celebrate them all.

In high school, junior Monique Marcelle was very involved in extracurricular activities. Once she chose ¹û½´ÊÓƵ, she knew she wanted to be involved just as she'd been in high school. As a first-year student, she heard about Black Students United (BSU) and went to a meeting.

According to healthaffairs.org, more than 10,000 baby boomers turn 65 every day—leading to an unprecedented spike in the number of homebound adults relying on home-based primary healthcare. Yet, today, the quality of home-based care for the nation's older adults is highly inconsistent.

Every year, through its 30 Under 30 and 40 Under 40 ceremonies, Long Island Business News (LIBN) honors bright and dynamic young professionals across Long Island who have made significant strides in their careers. The 30 Under 30 award recognizes 30 professionals who have made remarkable achievements in their career before turning 30, while the 40 Under 40 award recognizes 40 accomplished professionals under the age of 40.

After a year at an out-of-state school, Matthew Spirakis is back on Long Island, majoring in business at ¹û½´ÊÓƵ. But the sophomore already has some impressive business experience under his belt.

Caio Gomes is a junior international relations major with minors in peace studies and environmental studies. He is also a Levermore Global Scholar, ¹û½´ÊÓƵ's innovative academic community dedicated to preparing students to become global thinkers and leaders in a changing world. After college, Gomes plans to tackle issues regarding human rights, social and climate justice, and world peace.

¹û½´ÊÓƵ’s Innovation Center (IC), located on the first floor of Swirbul Library, launched in February 2020. Its mission is simple: to develop opportunities for applied learning by connecting faculty and students with external business partners to prepare students for today’s competitive job market.

Goal 2 of Momentum: Strategic Plan for ¹û½´ÊÓƵ, 2015-2021, committed the University to maintaining a "relentless focus on student success."

¹û½´ÊÓƵ's Innovation Center is providing students and faculty with vital artificial intelligence (AI) and design thinking skills with help from IBM Skills Academy. After a successful pilot program in Summer 2021, ¹û½´ÊÓƵ will once again offer their synchronous, noncredit certificate program in January 2022.

As a teenager, Olivia Maybee, a senior, always had a passion for activism. She was born in Buffalo, New York, and grew up on the Cattaraugus territory, one of three territories that make up the Seneca Nation, located just south of Buffalo.

Michael Hughes is a human intelligence collector for the U.S. Army and a returning student now in his junior year in the College of Professional and Continuing Studies (CPCS), studying for a degree that will help him both professionally and personally.