Garden City's Halvor Adams Named an Adelphi University McDonell Fellow

The following was provided by Adelphi University.

Eight Adelphi University students had the chance to do "intensive hands-on, full-time rigorous science research" in biology, chemistry and physics for 10 weeks through the competitive Horace G. McDonell Summer Research Science Fellowship program.

The program started last year through the generosity of alumnus Horace G. McDonell, Jr. ’52, ’02 (Hon.), an Adelphi trustee emeritus and retired chairman and CEO of PerkinElmer, Inc.

Students, including Halvor Adams of Garden City, received a $4,000 stipend and spent the two and a half months working closely with a faculty mentor, conducting experiments in a research lab and gaining state-of-the-art training.

Adelphi biology major Halvor Adams ’15 presented a poster at the last Adelphi University Undergraduate Research Conference. He focused his research on the effects of invasive and native predators on the hatching rates of Nucella lapillus or dog whelk, which are intertidal marine snails that range from Long Island to Newfoundland, and across Europe.

He observed and recorded the hatching of the Nucella from their egg masses over a six-week period and found out that the snails delayed hatching when exposed to some crab cues but not others.

This summer, Adams traveled to Maine with assistant professor Aaren Freeman and continued the work on the ecology of whelk reproduction.

This fall, the eight students involved in the Horace G. McDonell Summer Research Science Fellowship program will be presenting the research they completed. To learn more visit academics.adelphi.edu/artsci/.