FST 402 recognized with 2015 Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement and Service In recognition of teaching excellence, Evan Weissman, Ph.D., assistant professor of food studies, was honored with the 2015 Teaching Recognition Award as part of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professorship Program. Professor Weissman joined Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition in 2012 and was instrumental in working as part of the collaborative team that successfully launched a bachelor of science in food studies in 2014 as well as a minor in it the previous year. He took the lead on developing five…
Food studies learning assistant and Syracuse University graduate student, Cody Allen Dedischew, was the suite chef for the UPS and Rolex suites during the 2015 Master Golf Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. In his senior year of college at Johnson and Wales University, he had the opportunity to go with a group of students to work the Master. He had to interview with the Augusta National HR staff and chef. He was chosen to work as a cook that first year. By the end of the tournament that year, he was asked to return as a sous chef and…
Sixteen students in Chef Chris Uyehara’s Pacific Island Fusion Cuisine hosted a luau on April 19 during a course-required workshop at the Lyman Hall Café and teaching kitchens. “Students learn about this culture by preparing and eating its foods,” Uyehara notes. During the course, students learn from Uyehara and from one another. At the end of each prepared meal, the students and instructor share it together. “It is the best way to learn about community and how to teach the next generation,” says Uyehara.
Students and their faculty-staff advisors in Falk College were recognized with three 2015 Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship during a ceremony April 22. The Chancellor’s Awards for Public Engagement and Scholarship are given each year to Syracuse University students and groups who exemplify the highest ideal of sustained, quality engagement with citizens in our community. Falk College honorees include: Student Organization—Sport Management Club Innovation in Academic Engagement—FST 402: Feeding the City Legacy Award for Academic Engagement—SWK 435, 445, 671, 672, 771, 772/BSSW seniors, MSW graduate students Read more about the award’s ceremony
In April, the Food Studies program co-sponsored a screening of the documentary, Food Chains: A Revolution in America’s Fields with The Labor Studies Working Group (an interdisciplinary group of scholars from across campus) and the Workers Center of Central New York, to highlight labor issues in the food system. Over 70 people came to the event, which included a discussion with local farmworkers in the CNY region. According to assistant professor of food studies, Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, “the film opened many people’s eyes to the ways that immigrant workers are both exploited by and resisting our industrial food system.” The…
The Food Studies program, along with Falk College, is pleased to welcome Seth Goldman, co-founder and TeaEO of Honest Tea— the mission-driven entrepreneur who Beverage World magazine just placed at the top of its “50 Disruptors in the Beverage Industry” list. Goldman is the featured speaker at the Christy Lecture Series in Nutrition presented by Falk College April 13, 10:15-11:30am, 312 Lyman Hall. Goldman’s presentation is entitled, “Scaling an Authentic Brand While Keeping it Honest” and will highlight how he co-founded the company out of his home in 1998 with Barry Nalebuff of the Yale School of Management. Scaling a…
Falk College food studies students, led by assistant professor Evan Weissman, recently hosted chefs from Burma, Eritrea, Japan, South Sudan, and Somalia in the Falk College teaching kitchens in preparation for a recent My Lucky Tummy community dinner, which celebrates the local refugee and new American communities in Syracuse through food. Falk food studies students volunteered in advance of the community dinner, and at the event, working alongside the chefs, who are now local to the Syracuse area, to support their needs. “Food provides a really important vehicle to learn about other cultures,” says Weissman. My Lucky Tummy was started…
Dear Falk Undergraduate and Grad. Students, Please join Falk College Dean, Diane Lyden Murphy, and your classmates for a Falk Student Community Meet-and-Greet. A date will be scheduled after Spring Break. Dean Murphy is interested in hearing your ideas about student needs in our new building. What would you like to see in the student lounge? What makes your study space ideal? Hear about renovations in-the-works, including space for student services, food services, and collaborative learning. Pizza, salad and soda will be served! Share your suggestions via email.
Syracuse University School of Nursing Class of ‘64 gathered in Seneca Falls to celebrate its 50th reunion in May, 2014. From the Carolinas, Florida, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Oregon, California, Texas and West Virginia, 17 members of the class of 24 gathered to reminisce, catch up on news, view pictures and memorabilia and just enjoy one another. This class of only 24 have earned 3 PhDs, more than 10 master’s degrees, and 1 nurse practitioner. We have been directors of nursing in health care agencies, taught nursing, worked as clinical nurse specialists in numerous fields, and served in the military,…
Falk College food studies chef instructor, Mary Kiernan, cooked for and participated in the James Beard Empire State Feast Event on Feb. 27 at the James Beard House in NYC. Assisting her and the other team chefs are Falk nutrition students, Rachel Johnson and Kaylah Wicks. The Beard Foundation offers events to educate, inspire, entertain, and foster an appreciation of American cuisine. Preparation for the event included recent test run-throughs at Syracuse University’s Falk College teaching kitchens.