Professor of food studies, Anne Bellows, introduces the human right to adequate food and nutrition in her recently released publication, Gender, Nutrition and the Human Right to Adequate Food: Toward an Inclusive Framework. The book identifies structural disconnects fueling food insecurity for a billion people, and disproportionally affecting women, children, and rural food producers: the separation of women’s rights from their right to adequate food and nutrition, and the fragmented attention to food as commodity and the medicalization of nutritional health. The book explores conditions arising from these disconnects: structural violence and discrimination frustrating the realization of women’s human rights,…
Margaret Voss, professor of practice, nutrition, published, “A framework to assess evolutionary responses to anthropogenic light and sound” in Trends in Ecology & Evolution (July 2015). “When we speak of evolutionary changes, we are really talking about patterns of gene flow and gene expression. Anything that changes mortality rates (e.g., disease, predation, etc.) and birth rates has the potential to change patterns of gene flow. This in turn changes the way living populations’ function, including where they thrive,” says Voss. Human-induced disturbance, such as light and noise, have long been ignored as factors that could alter the genetic structure of…
The Sport Management (SPM) Club at Syracuse University has raised $40,470 for The Salvation Army at its 11th Annual Charity Sports Auction. During the SU men’s basketball game on December 2, supporters placed bids on hundreds of items, including sports memorabilia, electronics and tickets to major sporting events. Following the silent auction, the club also hosted an online auction, in collaboration with Steiner Sports Memorabilia, which showcased a number of premium items up for bid. All proceeds from these efforts benefited The Salvation Army in Central New York. “This total represents not only the culmination of months of hard work…
What to wear to dinner. It was a simple decision, thought Syracuse University Sport Management graduate Andrew Abramson. Abramson ’10 grew frustrated as he waited for his fiancée to prep for a night out in Los Angeles. As Heather Farone, SU ’10, tried on dress after dress and asked his opinion, Abramson impatiently told her to “just pick one.” It was at that moment he had an idea: Heather should take a photo of herself in two of the dresses, send it to her friends and let them decide. And just like that, in September 2014, the social-decisioning app Swayy…
To demonstrate the potential costly effects of not taking time off from work as well as the beneficial effects that can result from vacationing, Falk College’s Department of Public Health, Food Studies and Nutrition is embarking on a new research study funded by Project: Time Off entitled, “The Psychosocial and Physiological Consequences of Taking and Not Taking Time Off.” This study will examine how past and current vacationing behavior impacts psychological and physical health. “We frequently research the health effects of stressors and negative events. Surprisingly, there is very little research on the potential health effects of positive events and…
Public health seniors recently presented a poster symposium showcasing the internships they held with local community organizations, including: Elmcrest Children’s Center, the Onondaga County Health Department, the Street Addictions Institute and SUNY Upstate Medical University, among many others. Topics included, “Behavioral Intervention with Residential, Court-Placed Youth,” (Mackenzie Hall); “Art and Healing,” (Matthew Stith), and “The Patient Navigator: Redefining the Role in Syracuse Community Organizations to Improve Refugee Outcomes” (Shirel Daniel).
Twelve Sport Management seniors left the comfortable confines of the Syracuse University campus during the Fall 2015 semester to gain real-world experience in the sport industry as part of their 12-credit senior Capstone experience. The students interned with ASM Sports in Fort Lee, NJ; Evolution Media in New York, NY; Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, MO; Brooklyn Nets in Brooklyn, NY; NFL Players Association in Washington, DC; New York Red Bulls in Harrison, NJ; University of Florida Athletics in Gainsville, FL; Super Bowl Host Committee in San Francisco, CA; Basketball Travelers Inc./Paradise Jam in Seattle, WA; Ephesus Lighting in…
There are more than 400 items available at the Eleventh Annual Charity Sports Auction, hosted by the Sport Management (SPM) Club at Syracuse University. The event will take place on Wednesday, December 2 in the Carrier Dome backcourt during the SU vs. Wisconsin men’s basketball game. Proceeds from the auction will benefit The Salvation Army® of The Syracuse Area. A few notable items in this year’s auction include two round-trip tickets anywhere Jet Blue flies, four Disney World “hopper” passes, a Chris Bosh autographed “black tie” jersey, NASCAR tickets with a VIP garage tour, and Buffalo Bills tickets. A ticket to the game is required for admittance to…
Syracuse University Baseball Statistics and Sabermetrics Club members Jeremy Losak, Brandon Lane, Willie Kniesner, Olivia Lavelle, and Evan Weiss participated in a SABR Diamond Dollars Competition at Columbia University in New York City in early November. This team of students, along with eight other schools, was tasked with ranking the top 10 pitchers in the 2015-16 free agent market. This year’s crop of free agents is the deepest it has been in over a decade, with multiple ace-level pitchers available. Through the ranking process, they needed to project each pitchers’ future performance, evaluate what the player would make on the…
In honor of National Adoption Day on November 21, the School of Social Work in the Falk College, in conjunction with Families with Children from China, is offering a screening of the documentary film, “Find Me” with an expert panel discussion to follow. The session will be offered as a continuing education course for LMSWs and LCSWs. Many practitioners will, at some point, work with an individual who has been affected by foster care or adoption either directly or indirectly. This course will help develop a framework for understanding the unique needs of children and families from both the national…