Hofstra University

While Anthony (A.J.) Mihailidis was growing up, he shared his father's love of music, listening to the Eagles, The Cars and the Allman Brothers Band. The senior from Fresh Meadows, NY, then slowly began forming his own musical taste and taking an interest in emerging artists. Now a major in Hofstra's Music Business program, Mihailidis is responsible for helping the university's Unispan Records sign New York City-based rapper CIV.

Five students with outstanding academic records and demonstrated interest in American politics have been selected to participate in the Inside Washington seminar hosted by The Washington Center this January 2024. The selective program gives students the opportunity to learn from political insiders, scholars and journalists about what happens behind the scenes in the nation's capital.

Baldwin resident Yaw Bonsu '24, a journalism major with a concentration in sports media at Hofstra's Lawrence Herbert School of Communications, was recently awarded the national Radio Television Digital News Association Foundation (RTDNA) Presidents Scholarship at the organization's national conference in Minneapolis. The $2,500 award, endowed in memory of past RTDNA presidents, recognizes two broadcast journalism students for excellence in reporting.

Yaw Bonsu '24, a journalism major with a concentration in sports media at Hofstra's Lawrence Herbert School of Communications, was awarded the national Radio Television Digital News Association Foundation (RTDNA) Presidents Scholarship at the organization's national conference in Minneapolis last month. The $2,500 award, endowed in memory of past RTDNA presidents, recognizes two broadcast journalism students for excellence in reporting.

Thirty-four students from the Hofstra Northwell School of Nursing and Physician Assistant Studies, representing the first undergraduate nursing class at Hofstra, received their "Keeping Healthcare Human" pins, symbolizing their transition from classroom to clinical studies. The ceremony, attended by family, friends, and Hofstra faculty, featured a keynote address from Hofstra alum Amy J. Smith, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC, FNP-BC, NY-SAFE, assistant professor of nursing and director of the FNP and SANE programs. The nursing students, representing the Class of 2025, are in their third year, and will now begin their clinical rotations at Northwell Health facilities.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Spring 2023 Provost's List, which recognizes students who earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Welcome to the Pride, Class of 2027!

Hofstra University sociology major Sinjita Bhattacharya '23 has won the University of Washington School of Law's prestigious William H. Gates Public Service Law Scholarship to pursue her dream of becoming a disability rights attorney.

More than 2100 Hofstra University students earned their undergraduate, graduate, or law degrees in May 2023.

Fifteen first-year engineering and computer science students at Hofstra University are spending part of their summer exploring their fields and learning more about career opportunities as part of a program designed to help women succeed in STEM.

Five Hofstra drama alums are heading to Spoleto, Italy, to perform at the 10th edition of the European Young Theatre Festival later this month - the only American college students to participate in this year's prestigious international showcase and one of few in the history of the event to receive an invitation.

Twelve paintings by Beauvoire Jean-Charles '24, a health science and fine arts major from Dix Hills, NY, will be on display in the Journey to Joy art show at Uniondale's second annual Joy Fest NY.

Esha Sharma '24, a student in the BS/MD program at Hofstra University, won a Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center Award at the New England Science Symposium (NESS) at Harvard Medical School for a presentation about her research on the causes of a common form of leukemia.

Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Spring 2023 Dean's List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean's List.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Spring 2023 Provost's List, which recognizes students who earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Antonio Collado '24, a biochemistry major at Hofstra University, has been honored as a Goldwater Scholar and recipient of the Chemers Neustein Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) from Rockefeller University. These highly selective awards recognize Collado's academic achievements and the research he has conducted at Hofstra on the structure and function of enzymes that are targeted by antibiotics.

Hofstra University inducted 48 students into its chapter of Phi Beta Kappa this spring. Phi Beta Kappa is considered an emblem of high achievement and strong potential. The society celebrates and advocates excellence in the liberal arts and sciences. Its campus chapters invite for induction the most outstanding arts and sciences students at America's leading colleges and universities.

The Global Studies and Geography Department has announced Leivys Garcia of Weehawken, NJ, and Nicholas Lucchetto of King County, WA, as the 2023-24 recipients of the Masaharu G. Inaba Endowed Memorial Scholarship. Donated by the Inaba family in memory of the late Dr. George Inaba, who taught geography at Hofstra from 1959-1983, this scholarship is awarded annually to Global Studies or Geography majors.

Hofstra student Maxwell Clegg '23 of Arlington, VA, will be examining the economic, political, technological, and transnational issues shaping Africa's future as a research assistant at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a prestigious international think tank.

A group of 13 Hofstra University students were inducted into the Mu Kappa Chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon (GTU), the international honor society for geography students.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Fall 2022 Provost's List, which recognizes students who earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Hofstra students served as hosts during Hofstra University's 13th presidential conference, "The Barack Obama Presidency: Hope and Change." They assisted visiting scholars, journalists, and government officials, who were at the university in April to discuss the administration, policy making, and legacy of Barack Obama.

Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Fall 2022 Dean's List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean's List.

Undergraduate students at Hofstra University presented their original research as part of Undergraduate Research Day on December 12, 2022. The displays represented months of individual work under the guidance of an academic advisor. Representation from nearly all of Hofstra,s schools participated, with a wide range of topics and research methods.

Hofstra University congratulates the students named to the Fall 2022 Dean's List for their outstanding academic achievement. Students must earn a grade point average of at least 3.5 during the semester to make the Dean's List.

Hofstra University is proud to announce the Fall 2022 Provost's List, which recognizes students who earned a perfect 4.0 grade point average.

Three Hofstra University Chemistry majors are spending the summer working with faculty on projects researching antibiotic resistance, DNA extraction, and non-conventional cannabis products as part of the 2022 Bruce and Doris Lister Endowed Fellowship program.

Hofstra College of Liberal Arts and Sciences has awarded five students Transformative Learning Grants to defray the cost of their study abroad experiences this winter and spring 2023.

The writing talents of two Hofstra students were recently honored with the Dana Brand Prize, an award named for a popular English professor who passed away in 2011. May 2022 graduate Zachary Parrish received the award for "The Consequences of Denialistic Responses to Atrocity," an essay of literary criticism. Katherine Choma '23 is the prize's first recipient for a work of creative nonfiction: "The Things They Will Tell You/The Things I Wish I Said."

"Punishment for the Failed Criminal," a paper by philosophy major Evan Lopes '23, has been published in the undergraduate philosophy journal Ephermeris. In the piece, Lopes analyzes the similarities and differences between successful criminal acts and attempted but failed criminal acts. The measure of punishment for each should be the same, he argues. Whether or not there was resulting harm is incidental.