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In this Week’s News: September 28-October 4, 2013
Adelphi University’s Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign, to benefit the Adelphi NY Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline & Support Program, was featured on Garden City Patch and on the front page of NY Campus Compact. Brose a list of the breast cancer awareness events taking place this month at Adelphi.
An article featuring Talon Air, owned by Adelphi alum Adam Katz ,‘81 appeared in The Island Now for its partnership with the nonprofit Patient Airlift Services, which helps injured and ill people get to medical treatment centers. In September, Talon Air transported seven children with traumatic burn injuries to the Arthur C. Luf Children’s Burn Camp in Connecticut.
Danny McCabe, Adelphi’s new Director of Athletics and Campus Recreations, was named a Ones to Watch in Education in Long Island Business News. McCabe’s previous appointments include executive associate athletic director at Hofstra University and associate director of athletics for external relations at Providence College.
Alum Brett Spielberg ’13 was mentioned in Newsday as one of the Long Island people on the move on October 4. Spielberg recently joined Zimmerman/Edelson in Great Neck as assistant copywriter.
An article in Garden City Life reported on the lecture, “The World Needs All Kinds of Minds,” given by Dr. Temple Grandin, world-renowned autism expert. The sold out event took place on September 25 in the University Center Ballroom and was streamed live in the Performing Arts Center.
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A surge in 2024 rankings by U.S. News & World Report—up 19 spots as a Best College, up 85 spots for Social Mobility and up 35 spots as a Best Value College—supports Adelphi’s rising reputation. Adelphi serves more than 7,400 students at its beautiful main campus in Garden City, New York—just 23 miles from New York City’s cultural and internship opportunities—and at dynamic learning hubs in Brooklyn, the Hudson Valley and Suffolk County, as well as online.
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