Student and Faculty Showcase

David Ranzan, M.A., M.L.I.S.
Associate professor, University Archives and Special CollectionsCo-editor of a documentary edition on a general of the American Revolution
Michael O’Loughlin, Ph.D.
Professor, Education, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education and Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies Recipient of the 2015 RECE International Bloch Distinguished Career Award
Emily Kang, PH.D.
Assistant professor, Education/Curriculum and Instruction, Ruth S. Ammon School of EducationSupported by two New York State Race to the Top grants, collaborated with local school districts to provide STEM-based professional development for K-8 teachers
Eugenia Villa-Cuesta, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences Recipient of a $250,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to research potential drug treatments for mitochondrial disease
Justyna Widera, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences Has long been committed to green energy and the research and development of more efficient materials for solar cells and photocatalysis
Jacques Barber, PH.D.
Dean, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies Recognized by the Society for Psychotherapy Research as “one of the premier psychotherapy process and outcome researchers in the world,” his research has not only shaped our understanding of how psychotherapy works, it has influenced its practice all over the world.
Lawrence R. Sullivan, Ph.D.
Senior adjunct faculty, Political Science, College of Arts and Sciences Author of the most up-to-date book on science and technology in China from the late 19th century to the present, he pays special attention to the scientists persecuted during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), whose research was cut short.
Fallon Kane
Student Won an award from the American Psychological Association for a poster she created based on her psychoanalysis of domestic abusers
Argiro Agelarakis
Faculty part time, Anthropology, College of Arts and Sciences
Patricia Donohue-Porter, Ph.D.
Associate professor, College of Nursing and Public Health Academic partner in a national multisite study on how interruptions, distractions and cognitive load contribute to medication and administration errors; presented research at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement annual national summit
Matthew Wright, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences Student Government Association’s 2014–2015 Professor of the Year
Andrea Ward, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences Studying, with Keri Ackerly ’11, M.S. ’13, the effects of climate change on the development of zebra–fish spines and the adverse effects that has on the species
Women’s Volleyball
2015 NE-10 Champions
Michael D’Emic, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Biology, College of Arts and Sciences Using Adelphi’s 3D Studio, he is creating a model and 3-D printout of dinosaur tracks found in Utah.
Courtney Lee Weida, ED.D.
Associate professor, Art and Art History, director of the Graduate Art Education Program, College of Arts and Sciences Exploring creativity in art teaching through contemporary craft, her book is unique in its eclectic and practical survey of craft across the curriculum and through various disciplinary lenses of art.
Jean Lau Chin, Ed.D.
Professor, Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies Recipient of American Psychological Association’s 2014 Committee on Women in Psychology Leadership Award
Georgia Newlin, D.M.A.
Associate professor, Music, College of Arts and Sciences Arranged the Latin text of Psalm 113:9 for a six-part contemporary music setting.
Hyunsung Daniel Kang, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Management, Marketing and Decision Sciences, Robert B. Willumstad School of Business Recipient of the Coller Institute of Venture 2014 Research Award
JoAnn Victor-Fassman
Senior adjunct faculty, College of Nursing and Public Health Partnered with South Nassau Communities Hospital for the past four summers to develop and organize a two-week nursing intensive summer program for high school students interested in pursuing a nursing career
Deborah Ambrosio-Mawhirter ’81, M.S. ’95, Ed.D.
Assistant professor, College of Nursing and Public Health Chair, Department of Nursing Foundations Recipient of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing Award for Outstanding Mentoring
Brian Stockman, PH.D.
Associate professor, Chemistry, College of Arts and Sciences He engages undergraduate students in hypothesis-driven research toward the discovery of new antitrichomonal agents with novel mechanisms of action.
Diane Dembicki, Ph.D.
Clinical associate professor, director of M.S. in Nutrition program, College of Nursing and Public Health AU’s two-year-old 100 percent online M.S. in Nutrition program ranked No. 5 on the 2015 Best Online Master’s in Nutrition Programs by BestColleges.com.
Susan H. Lederer, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education A nationally recognized expert in early language, literacy and pretend play, her children’s books are designed to help children learn to play, talk and read.
Melanie E. L. Bush, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Sociology, College of Arts and Sciences She co-authored a book asking how a nation of immigrants can pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class and gender. It considers the origins and development of the U.S. nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism and exceptionalism; and their lived reality.
Katie Laatikainen, Ph.D.
Professor, Policial Science, College of Arts and SciencesIn 2015, the two-volume, 71-chapter Sage Handbook of European Foreign Policy that she co-edited with Knud Erik Jørgensen, Asne Kalland Aarstad, Edith Drieskens and Ben Tonra was published by Sage. She contributed three individually authored chapters to the handbook (“The EU’s Bilateral Relations,” “The EU’s Relations With Multilateral Institutions and Regions,” and “The EU and the UN”) and was primary editor for Parts VII and VIII.
Gabriel Feldmar, Ph.D.
Adjunct professor, Psychology, Gordon F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies His invaluable reference book helps patients and their families become educated consumers in recognizing and managing abnormal psycological or psychiatric conditions.
Women’s Tennis
2015 NE-10 Champions
Martha Cooley
Professor, English, College of Arts and Sciences A beautiful translation of Antonio Tabucchi’s collection of short stories tackling the problem and promise of time’s passage
Regina Axelrod, Ph.D.
Professor, Political Science She co-edited Global Environment: Law, Institutions and Policy with Regina S. Axelrod and Stacy D. VanDeveer (Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2015) and received a SAGE 2015 Cornerstone Author Award for the 15th anniversary edition.
Alexa Froccaro
Women’s Lacrosse Academic All-American (Spring 2015)
Terrence Ross and Cindy Maguire, Ph.D.
Terrence RossAssociate professor, Communications, College of Arts and Sciences Cindy Maguire, Ph.D.Associate professor, Art and Art History, College of Arts and Sciences Produced award-winning feature film When the Sun Came for Them, about the nomadic Saharawi people in the Western Sahara
Kelly Mannix
Women’s Basketball Academic All-American (Winter 2015)
Eugene Hecht, Ph.D.
Professor, Physics, College of Arts and Sciences Wrote the most widely used optics textbook in the world
Michael Santaniello, Ph.D.
Adjunct professor, University College Published College Bound and Moving Up, discussing why young adults today must attend college, and how parents can help and encourage their children to aspire to attend college
Salvatore Tuttle
Men’s Lacrosse Received the Lt. Col. J.L. (Jack) Turnbull Award for NCAA Division II from the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), presented to the nation’s most outstanding attackman (Spring 2015)
Dana Battaglia, Ph.D.
Assistant professor, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education Her article in Young Exceptional Children offers an intervention addressing communication and behavior issues in children with autism spectrum disorder.
Fern Baudo, R.N.
Adjunct professor, College of Nursing and Public Health In January 2015, published If I Only Knew: Making Educated Medical Decisions as We Navigate Through Life’s Journey on advance care planning
Taylor Hayes
Women’s Lacrosse Final Four Most Outstanding Player (Spring 2015)
Nicole Rudolph, Ph.D.
Associate professor, Languages, Literatures and Cultures, College of Arts and Sciences Through a unique focus on home interiors, her book examines how the making of a modern home was an essential part of the making of modern France.
Patricia Ann Marcellino, M.B.A. ’82, Ed.D.
Professor, Ruth S. Ammon School of Education She has published an e-book for intermediate readers entitled I Don’t Want to Be a Leader: Or Do I? The e-book became available in November 2015.
Taylor Groth
Women’s Soccer Two-time Academic All-American (Fall 2014 and Fall 2015)
Roni Berger, Ph.D.
Professor, School of Social Work “My most recent book (March 2015) is a comprehensive text that addresses research, practice and policy aspects of negative and positive outcomes of the struggle with stressful and potentially traumatic events of all types, along the life span in individuals, families and communities in diverse cultural contexts.”
Tuval Foguel, Ph.D.
Associate dean, College of Arts and Sciences Helps explain work in finite lattice and sublattices in his co-authored article “A Note on Subloop Lattices,” published in a 2015 edition of Results in Mathematics