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Falk College exemplifies public health in action

November 11, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic began to escalate this past spring, graduate students in a Falk College applied epidemiology class hosted a public forum for the campus community. According to public health graduate student, Tim Bryant, when Professor David Larsen asked if students had questions regarding the virus, “it proceeded to be a 20-minute question and…

Talking to Kids About Race and Ethnicity

November 11, 2020

A professor of human development and family science discusses the importance of socialization, particularly among ethnic-racial minority families. How parents talk to their kids about racial inequality and trauma has taken on a sense of urgency, states Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, a researcher in Syracuse University’s Falk College. “Ethnic-racial socialization is positively linked to better academic…

Nov. 17 webinar focuses on COVID-19’s impact on the sport industry

November 11, 2020

Falk College’s Department of Sport Management is presenting a free webinar at 4 p.m. Tuesday, November 17 titled “COVID-19’s Impact on the Sport Industry.” The event will be moderated by Syracuse University graduate and NBC Sports Broadcaster Mike Tirico, ’88. Falk College epidemiologists Dr. Brittany Kmush and Dr. David Larsen will discuss what sport and…

Keeping the Ball in Her Own Court

November 5, 2020

Trailblazing alumna challenges gender discrimination in sports with help from a Supreme Court justice. When Abbe Seldin ’78 and her parents toured the Syracuse University campus during her college search in 1974, she knew she had found her dream school. “We drove up University Avenue toward campus, and I just fell in love with it—the…

Wastewater Surveillance

October 29, 2020

Syracuse-based team of scientists targets novel coronavirus with an early warning system to help communities prepare for potential outbreaks. When epidemiologist David Larsen learned last spring that scientists in the Netherlands had detected SARS-Coronavirus-2 in sewage and isolated its RNA, he immediately recognized the significance of their research. “I knew from my experience in global…

Falk College exemplifies public health in action

Talking to Kids About Race and Ethnicity

Nov. 17 webinar focuses on COVID-19’s impact on the sport industry

Keeping the Ball in Her Own Court

Wastewater Surveillance

Orange Experience: Wines for Entertaining and Wines as Gifts

2021 Virtual Falk Student Research Celebration