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Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· 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 Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· background in soccer and a strong work ethic can take you.

Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· 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 Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, 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 Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·. 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, Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'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.

Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·â€™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 Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, 2015-2021, committed the University to maintaining a "relentless focus on student success."

Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'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, Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· 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.

When Carlos Ventura, now a senior majoring in biochemistry, first came to Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· in Fall 2018, the first-generation college student attended a meeting of the Latino Student Association (LSA) and immediately connected with the members of the group. He has called LSA his home away from home ever since.

On September 11, 2001, a 27-year-old management associate with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey went to his office on the 86th floor of One World Trade Center. When the building was hit shortly after, he led several coworkers to safety.

We continue to lead in the performing arts community. Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· alumni are contributing to the Broadway show Pass Over by Antoinette Chinonye Nwandu and Disney’s Winnie the Pooh off-Broadway. And an early work of Jonathan Larson ’82, creator of the musical RENT, is heading to Netflix.

For her senior thesis, physics major Gabriella (Gabi) Vidad '21 used remote sensing and widely available resources such as Google Earth to chart the severity of coral reef changes in the Philippines.

Rising junior Danelya Zholdasbekova's path to Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· was unexpected. While searching the internet for top New York business schools, the Kazakhstan native said she was attracted by descriptions of Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s “close-knit, diverse community, its Honors College, scholarship opportunities, and beautiful campus and location."

Six students from the College of Nursing and Public Health have been named Rising Stars of Research and Scholarship by the international nursing honor society Sigma Theta Tau.

For 16 years, Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·’s English department has celebrated outstanding undergraduate and graduate student writers with the Donald Everett Axinn Awards in Creative Writing. Started in 2005 by Professor Judith Baumel (also founding director of the Creative Writing program), former Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· President Robert Scott, PhD, and generous donor Donald Axinn, DHL ’03 (Hon.), the awards recognize…

Despite grueling schedules, our scholar-athletes continue to lead academically among all Northeast-10 institutions. Finishing first in Fall 2020, they've taken the top spot in eight of the past 11 semesters—winning in their sports and their studies.

As a nursing major at Nassau Community College, Will Torres, now a rising senior and first-generation college student, realized he wanted to explore other options at a four-year institution. He wanted a campus close to his Glen Cove hometown that offered small classes and individually tailored instruction. He also wanted a friendly and inclusive campus.

Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s highly ranked nursing program has a long and rich history of producing students who excel in all sectors of the healthcare system throughout the world. A testament to the program is the recent naming of Joseph Amnawah, a doctoral candidate, as a 2021–2023 national Jonas Scholar.

This spring, more than 180 Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· School of Social Work students pioneered new efforts to address racial justice. Part of the University’s annual social action initiative, groups of students took an innovative online approach to the three-month project, focusing on highlighting issues such as the effects of race and racism on criminal justice, health,…

Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·'s Psychiatric Mental Health–Nurse Practitioner program has two remarkable new graduates—a married couple with four children, originally from Cameroon. Their journey, as a family and as nurse practitioners, is an inspiring story of determination and commitment.

Jessica Karim, a social work major at Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ·, has been named the 2021 BSW Student of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers-New York State Chapter.

Olivia Maybee, Junior, Art Major and Business Minor Olivia Maybee is a member of the Seneca Nation, an indigenous tribe in western New York state. She is an artist, businesswoman and activist, and an undergraduate at Â鶹¹ú²ú¾«Æ· studying business management and fine arts. She is also an active member of the prestigious and oldest…