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Published:It’s been another outstanding year for ºüÀêÊÓÆµ in the news–locally, nationally and around the world.
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Published:It's been another great year of academic achievement and recognition at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ.
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Christy Mulligan, PsyD: Helping Troubled Youth and Sharing Her Knowledge With Her Students
CategoriesPublished:Christy Mulligan, PsyD, assistant professor of school psychology, researches how to help young people with selective mutism and those who have sexually harmed others, specifically targeting the inequalities within our juvenile justice system.
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Jonathan Jackson, PhD, Steps Down After Nearly Four Decades of Guiding Psychology Doctoral Students
CategoriesPublished:When Jonathan Jackson, PhD, started his role as director of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology Center for Psychological Services, he thought it was one of those positions he might grow into—and 36 years later, he thinks he might have done just that.
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Published:Karolina Lempert, PhD, joined the faculty of the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology as an assistant professor of psychology this fall, after completing a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Psychology and Penn Memory Center.
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Published:In August, Monica Pal, PhD '13, became director of ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's Center for Psychological Services and director of Practicum Training—stepping into the shoes of her former professor, Jonathan Jackson, PhD, who retired after 36 years in the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology.
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Published:Catherine Eubanks, PhD, who joins the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology faculty as a professor, is enthusiastically including her students in her research, which is focused on repairing ruptures in therapist/patient relationships.
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Published:The Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), the accrediting branch of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN), has recognized ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) program in adult gerontology primary care.
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Published:The ºüÀêÊÓÆµ community lost a longtime professor, campus leader and student advocate with the death of Regina Axelrod, PhD, on November 3. Colleagues and alumni share their recollections.
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Published:When Deborah Hunt, PhD '12, learned that patient errors are on the rise despite years of new protocols, the dean of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ College of Nursing and Public Health decided to provide best practices for all healthcare workers.
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Published:The ºüÀêÊÓÆµ School of Social Work is a premier partner in the New York State Office of Mental Health Schools of Social Work Project for Evidence-Based Practice in Mental Health, which provides training and education in recovery-oriented, evidence-based practices for adults diagnosed with serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.
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Published:In the Fall 2021 semester, across all of higher education, faculty members sought ways to keep students safe and engaged amid the continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Published:Every year, College Factual ranks schools in a variety of categories for its Best Colleges in America list. This year, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ was recognized as one of the Best Colleges in America for 2023.
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Published:This year’s International Education Week (IEW) has a lot to celebrate: a week of events, ºüÀêÊÓÆµ's rich history of global connections, a return to pre-pandemic opportunities for our students to study abroad, and the welcome presence, once again, of our international students.
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Published:Organized by two ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Department of Mathematics and Computer Science assistant professors, the inaugural session of the ºüÀêÊÓÆµ Summer Institute in Mathematical Epidemiology gave Long Island high school students an opportunity to conduct original research projects in mathematical epidemiology that focused on COVID-19 and cancer.
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Published:Cara Lynch ’12 has made mural magic again, this time in Long Beach, New York. Lynch’s particular brilliance is not merely eye-catching, site-appropriate public art. She has been creating public art since she graduated from ºüÀêÊÓÆµ and, last semester, began teaching as an adjunct in the Department of Art and Art History. She also includes the community when she…
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Published:Graduates with an MS in applied mathematics and data science are breaking down barriers and taking on careers in STEM. One of them was advised in high school not to study science—and is now working in the Collider-Accelerator Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
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Published:Open access is the concept of making scholarly, peer-reviewed literature available online without barriers such as access charges.
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Four history majors—Anisa Sinclair ’22, sophomore Joseph D’Andrea, junior Anujot Kaur and junior Beth Ceriello—gained valuable experience through their summer internships, including at Fintech in Action, the Cradle of Aviation Museum, Connecticut's Mystic Seaport Museum and an elementary school.
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Published:The CPCS Mother-Scholar Childcare and Technology Award provides five scholar-mothers with the support they need to complete their degrees.
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Published:Fully online, intensive seven-and-a-half-week courses in liberal studies and business offer adult learners a flexible, quality option designed to work around their busy lives.
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Published:A distinctive new program for Levermore Global Scholars (LGS) at ºüÀêÊÓÆµ will send a group of students to India in January 2023 for an intensive, all-expenses-paid, study tour, sponsored by ºüÀêÊÓÆµ alumnus Bharat Bhisé, MBA ‘78.
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Published:Recent works by faculty members Robert Mendelsohn, Joel Weinberger, Jairo N. Fuertes, Jacques Barber and J. Christopher Muran burnish the Derner School’s reputation as a world leader in psychoanalytic research.
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Published:At ºüÀêÊÓÆµ, from day one, our new PATH core curriculum—with its focus on Preparation, Awareness, Transformation and Hands-On Learning—points students in the right direction on their pathway to college and lifetime learning.
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Published:“How do we experience being alive?†That’s the question Igor Webb, PhD, professor in ºüÀêÊÓÆµâ€™s Department of English, explores in his latest book, Buster Brown’s America: Recollections, Reveries, Reflections—and incorporating This Old Writer: A Journal of a Plague Year. “In everyday life, we don’t experience being alive in the same way,†said Dr. Webb. “It’s not…
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Published:In addition to teaching, Derner faculty members engage in scholarship and research. Here are recent highlights of their work.
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Published:Don Center director Gita Surie, PhD, is establishing the center as a knowledge hub and valuable resource for the University as a whole through programs that focus on innovative technologies and decision sciences.