LIU Taps Olympian Dwight Smith as Fencing Head Coach

Olympic fencer Dwight Smith, a four-time USA National Team member, appointed as head Coach for the men’s and women’s fencing programs. In 2021, Smith...

Pharmacy Faculty Win National Award for Best Publication

Pharmacy faculty Sara Grossman, Tina Zerilli, and Joseph Nathan won the American Association of College of Pharmacy's (AACP) 2025 Best Publication Award for the...

Roc Nation School Hosts NFL Super Bowl Champion

Super Bowl Champion and fashion icon Victor Cruz spoke with LIU students at the Roc Nation School of Music, Sports and Entertainment, offering career...

Cross Country Stars Earn All-Conference Honors

Cross-country junior Ralitsa Mihaylova and sophomore Lexi Smith finished fifth and sixth in the women’s Northeast Conference Championship meet, both earning first-team All-NEC honors....

Prestigious Journal Highlights Expertise of Professor

LIU Pharmacy professor Douglas Jennings is the co-author of a prominent clinical study. The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation published updated guidelines for the care of heart transplant...

New York Times Profiles Iconic Entrepreneur and Trustee

The New York Times highlighted the extraordinary career of Byron Lewis ’53, a former member of the LIU Board of Trustees and the founder and chairman...

Renowned Jazz Drummer Joins New England Conservatory

Nasheet Waits, ’12, renowned drummer, composer and educator, has joined the New England Conservatory's Jazz Studies Department. Waits is widely known for his performances...

Nursing Professor Wins National Leadership Award

Dr. Sheldon D. Fields, adjunct professor at LIU’s Harriet Rothkopf Heilbrunn School of Nursing, was awarded the 2020 Towers Pinnacle Award by The American...

Decorated Army Officer Promoted to General of National Guard

The New York Army National Guard announced the promotion of Isabel Rivera-Smith, ’01, to Brigadier General. Her decorated Army career began in 1985 when...

California Commission Funds Faculty’s Dietary Research

The California Table Grape Commission awarded a grant to Dr. Jeffrey Idle, Endowed Professor and Director of the Division of Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics,...