Grant Awarded to Celebrated Fashion Entrepreneur

The Curvy Fashionista and Eloquii announced that Melissa Mercedes ’11 is the winner of the 2021 Cultivate Award, which supports the next generation of...

Accomplished Educator Recognized for Extraordinary Leadership

The Westchester County Board of Legislators honored Dr. Angela White ‘81, for her work as an educational leader and advocate for children with disabilities...

Football Season to Kickoff at University of Florida

The Sharks will be swimming down to “The Swamp” to kickoff the 2025 football season when LIU takes on the University of Florida Gators....

Sharks Earn NEC’s Highest Academic Honors

Seven LIU athletic teams and four student-athletes earned top academic recognition from the Northeast Conference during the 2021-22 season. Baseball, men’s cross country, football,...

Sharks Win NEC Top Honors for Scholar Athletic Awards

LIU once again topped the Northeast Conference’s 2021 Fall Scholar-Athlete Awards with two honorees: Men’s soccer’s Demetri Skoumbakis, who was also named the NEC...

R. K. Mellon Foundation Funds Doctoral Student Research Project in Tanzania

Doctoral students in the Clinical Psychology program traveled to Tanzania as part of a first-of-its-kind research project led by program director, Dr. Eva Feindler,...

Sharks Dominate First-Ever Games on Home Ice

The men’s hockey team took the ice and won its first-ever home games, defeating Assumption University 7-0 and Post University 6-1. Freshman Jordan Timmons...

Basketball Star Named to Home Town Hall of Fame

The Lee County (Florida) Athletic Conference inducted DeAngelique Waithe, ’18, into its 2021 Hall of Fame class. Waithe was a four-year letter winner for...

World’s Largest Hedge Fund Founder Inspires Course

Students at the School of Business are learning from one of the highest achieving alumni in the nearly 100-year history of LIU: Ray Dalio,...

Ice Hockey Teams Shine with Impressive Debuts

The men's and women's ice hockey teams opened their seasons in impressive fashion. The men's team shut down West Point with a 3–0 exhibition...